Chapter 8 #3
As she finished up her workday, she headed home free of trying to figure out if her mother was going to be there to attack her.
Sen had no doubt that her mother would do something that would cause her harm; she just hoped that it was harm rather than killing her.
She’d not been kidding when she told Judge Rainer that she didn’t want to be looking over her shoulder every minute of every day while she was free to run around.
Going to bed that night, she was happy with the choices that she’d made as to what she was wearing tomorrow.
The dress was one that she’d never worn before and had been a part of her aunt’s clothing.
The price tag had still been on the garment, and she’d paid quite a bit for it.
Ivan was going to wear a tie that almost matched the dress perfectly, and she was glad for that.
She thought they looked like a power couple, just as she hoped her mother would see them.
The next morning, she was up and ready to go by seven.
Her sleep had been pitiful, but she’d gotten enough that she wouldn’t be yawning all day.
When Ivan came downstairs, she’d already had a bit of breakfast as well as two cups of tea.
She was beginning to see the appeal of a good, strong cup of tea and was glad that Ivan liked it as well.
Getting to the courthouse on time, she sat in the chairs directly behind Devlin at the prosecution table.
While this wasn’t a trial as yet, he was there to provide as much evidence as would be needed to send her mother away to prison.
If nothing else, perhaps she’d be in the jail system for some time before her trial.
When the courtroom was called to order, she stood up with the rest of the people in the room.
They’d not brought out her mother as yet, and she was curious what she might look like after spending ten days in jail.
Surely they wouldn’t allow her to have a hairdresser come in and take care of her needs.
With a little laugh, she thought that her mother would have been demanding all kinds of stupid things while she was in the system.
After being seated, the judge made an announcement about how this was a courtroom and that things would be orderly. He also said that this wasn’t a trial, just as she’d thought too, and that today would bring order to the lives of so many people. Then her mother was brought out.
She’d not only not had a hairdresser come to her in her hour of need, but it looked like she’d not had her hair washed at all since she’d been put away.
Even from as far away as she was, Sen could see that her nails were broken and the polish chipped.
In a word, her mother looked horrid. Like being in jail had been the final straw in her not taking care of herself.
She couldn’t believe how terrible she looked.
After Devlin said what he was there for, the reasons why her mother had been arrested, he handed the judge several files and some to the defendant’s table as well.
He was saying how she’d been arrested for running up a tab that the hotel was demanding payment for, as well as she’d been found with a gun on her person.
Then he went on to say that, as an ex-con, her mother was in violation of her release from prison.
Sen found herself tuning out the proceedings and thinking about her life so far.
She had a wonderful husband, a good amount of money, and a home that she loved.
If there were more to life than that, she didn’t know what it would be.
Of course, she did add that having family around was important too, as she thought about how much she loved all of Ivan’s family of brothers and their wives. Then she thought about Ivan.
He was a good man and a better friend than she’d ever had. It didn’t take her long to figure out how much she loved him, and she was glad for that. Having someone to love was important to everyone, and she thought that she was especially lucky in that Ivan was so good to her. And he was too.
Never once had they had a fight about anything.
But then they were new to each other. She found that she would agree with what he would say just to see his smile.
And he was happy with his entire face when he did that.
His laughter was something that she would look forward to daily.
She’d think of silly things all day just to hear him laugh with her about it. Then there was their lovemaking.
It was gentle most of the time, but there were times when she was painfully aware that he’d been a little rough. Not that she minded about that. She would enjoy it as much as he did, like the other morning when he woke her up while eating her.
She’d come up off the bed with a scream to release.
He’d been licking her pussy and suckling at her clit for some time if she was honest with herself.
He told her to lie back down so that he could finish, and she wanted him to fuck her.
But he wasn’t taking no for an answer and swatted her on the ass as he fucked her with his tongue.
Coming as hard as she did, Sen was sure that she’d be hoarse come the end of the day.
But it was well worth a little sore throat for all the things that he’d given her.
And when he finally fucked her, she came again and again until she simply passed out with pleasure.
It was something that she would think about forever.
The low growl from Ivan had her looking at him.
“I can smell you. Behave, or I’ll beat your bottom when we get home.” She told him how sorry she was. “Don’t be sorry, just stop doing what you’re doing. I won’t be able to sit here quietly if you keep that up.”
She giggled, bringing attention to her from her mother. When she stood up, so did Sen. They stared at one another for a long, tense-filled moment before her mother was made to sit down again.
“She’s the reason that I’m in here.” Judge Rainer asked her how she had not been the one to pay the hotel bill. “She got my brother’s money, and I didn’t. If she had given it to me like I asked, then I’d of not have had to buy the gun to get the money.”
“What do you mean, she’s the reason that you had to buy the gun?
Like the hotel bill, I’m not sure how that even equates to her causing you trouble.
Perhaps you’d like to explain yourself.” With a glance in her direction, she kept standing when her mother stood again.
“Ms. Ranger, I’m waiting for an answer. Why did your daughter have you buy a gun that you knew you weren’t able to have? ”
“She is going to give me that money, or I’m going to kill her.
She thinks she’s so smart to keep me out of her bank account, but I have ways of finding out what’s going on.
My brother should have left his money to me, not to her.
She no more deserves it than she does to be alive right now.
And she made it so I lost my house and car too, by trying to find her daddy.
” Again, Judge Rainer asked what she was talking about.
“My daughter got all the money from my brother’s estate, and that wasn’t right.
I was his sister, and that’s the way it should have been.
When she decided to keep me out of her accounts, I decided that he gave her much more than he did me, and now I’m going to get it from her.
Even if I have to kill her. I will too. No matter what you do to me, she’s going to die, and so is that husband of hers if they’re really married. ”
“They’re married. I did the deed myself.
But let’s get back to you killing your only child.
You said you’d do it. I have it on good authority that you no longer have the gun that you got illegally.
Just how are you planning to make that work?
” She said it had been easy to get a gun in the first place, and she’d have no trouble again.
“So you’ll get yourself another gun and try to kill your child and her husband for money. Is that what you’re telling me?”
“Yes. And I won’t try. I’ll kill her dead the first chance I get. She no more deserves his money than I do living the way I’m going to be without funds. She did this to me, and now she’s going to have to pay.”