Chapter 8
Linda didn’t know what she’d been arrested for, nor did she care at this point.
She had things to do, and she wasn’t getting anything done concerning her daughter.
The bitch had thralled her for the last time.
She wanted money, and she wanted a great deal of it.
Tomorrow, she was going before a judge about how she’d been threatening her own child.
She knew that there were laws about threatening people, but she didn’t believe that it covered children.
People threatened their kids all the time with punishment, and she’d never seen one of them arrested.
“I wish they made a book of laws that you’re not supposed to do.
That would be helpful.” She’d been told before there were plenty of books on how not to get into trouble with the law, but for the life of her, she couldn’t figure out where to find it.
Not that she’d read the thing, but it would be nice to have one so that she could mark the ones that she wanted to discard.
“Why are there so many supposed laws about hurting your children and nothing about children treating their parents with disdain? That’s what I’d like to know. ”
“You’re talking to yourself again.” She didn’t know who the man was that was down from her in the cells, but he must have been a pain in the ass as to what got him in jail.
He was forever pointing things out that she’d do, and it was getting on her last nerve.
“Why don’t you talk to yourself lower so I don’t have to listen to your stupidity.
You sound like a fool when you talk about laws and such.
Just know that there are laws about everything that you do wrong.
I’m reasonably sure that you can tell when you’re doing something wrong, can’t you? ”
“Mind your own business. I don’t talk to you when you mess up.
” So far, she’d not been able to tell when he did anything wrong, but that was beside the point.
She didn’t like him talking to her, and she really didn’t care for him pointing out the things that she did wrong.
In his opinion, she was a total screw, and she knew better.
She’d gotten along in life pretty well so far, and she didn’t like being pointed at when she might mess up.
Stupid bastard needed his head bashed in.
And yeah, she knew that was wrong of her to think about. “Fucking bastard.”
He said something else, but she was focused on the fact that the door down the hall from the two of them had opened.
She’d been telling the cops around here that she wanted to talk to her daughter for days now, and she was hoping they finally got it into their heads that she wasn’t joking about it.
Tabby owed her, and she was going to come through, or she was going to have someone kill her.
That was final too. If she wouldn’t help her, then she didn’t deserve to live.
It was someone who had come and stopped at her cell, but she didn’t know who she was.
It took her several minutes of her staring at the girl to know that it was her Tabby.
She looked like she glowed a bit. Or she was in love.
She’d heard that she was shacked up with some man and wouldn’t have believed it but for just then.
Christ, even her clothing was expensive-looking.
“I see you’ve been spending my money on yourself.
That’s not going to work for me. Tomorrow, when I’m given a bail amount, you’re going to pay it without a word of meanness and not give me any shit about how it’s not right that you can see the ponies.
” She told her that she didn’t know what she was talking about.
“You do too know what I’m saying. I’m not going to have you making me look like a fool when we get before the judge.
You’re going to tell him what you can do, and you’re going to get me my money when I get out.
Or so help me, I’m going to murder you, and that will be the end of it. ”
“You do know that they record the conversations that go on between you and the visitors you might have. I’ve heard that you’ve been threatening your cellmate down the hall, too.
Not very smart if you were to ask me. Not that I think you’ve ever been, but that’s all on you.
” She asked her what she was talking about.
“Never mind. Just get whatever you want to say to me out of your system, and I’ll be on my way.
The only reason that I’m going to be at your court hearing in the morning is because I want to make sure that you have a nice, long stay in some prison somewhere. That’s the least that you deserve.”
“I’m going to get out, and you had better pay the bail money.” She told her no, she wasn’t, and that pissed her off. “I wish I’d never had you. You should have been aborted like all the other brats that I got caught with.”
“I figured as much. Is that the reason that Dad left you? He found out your true self? I’m betting he was disappointed in you every day.
I know that I have been.” She told her that she didn’t care what her opinion was of her.
“Obviously. You only have one thought in your head at any given time, and that’s what others can do for you. Isn’t that right?”
“And why shouldn’t I have what I want? I’m not like those other people who work hard daily for a buck or two at the end of the week.
After paying bills, there should be more to life than just working and dying.
I’m going to live out a wonderful life, and you’re going to do what I tell you.
” She said that she wasn’t going to do anything for her, least of all to pay her bail.
“You will, or I’ll get someone to kill you.
I’m not above having Carl come after you again, with the only job is to make you suffer before he kills you. ”
“Didn’t you hear? He’s dead. His bruin killed him when he was caught doing your bidding.
I guess they spared him no mercy either.
” She told her she was a liar. “No, that would be you, and why would I care enough to tell a lie about the man that would beat me when he found me for no other reason than your bidding.”
“He was a good man and a perfect henchman. If what you say about him is true and I have no reason to believe you, then I’ll have to find someone else to kill you.
” She told her good luck with that. “Oh, don’t you fret about that.
I always get what I want when I want it.
You’re the only holdup in my perfect scheme in life.
And I’ll get what I want from you, too. I’m thinking millions of dollars should be enough to start my life out on a good note.
Then after that, you’ll make sure that I never have to do without again. ”
“In your dreams. I’m not going to help you do anything.
Even if I could, there is no reason that you think in your small mind that I’d help you at all.
But I don’t know what it is you’re talking about.
” She called her a liar again. “Whatever. I don’t care what you want.
I’m finished with you and your demands.”
“We’ll see what you’re finished with when I say so.
” When Tabby laughed, she tried to think what it was that she said that was so funny.
When she couldn’t think of a single thing, she stood up close to the bars.
“Come closer to me so that I can show you what it is to deny me what I want. You’ll see that I’m going to get what I want when I want it, or you’ll be dead.
I don’t even care if I have to live off of welfare for the rest of my life.
You’ll be dead and I’ll be much happier. ”
“But broke according to you.” She hadn’t thought of that, and it pissed her off.
“I’m going home now to the man that I love.
You might want to think about that when you’re spouting off your accusations about what I can do and not do for you.
I’m in love and I’ve never been happier.
The only thing that could make me happier is if you were sent away to prison for the rest of your life.
” Then she turned and walked away out of the area.
“Come back here right now, or so help me I’m going to kill you right where you stand.” The laughter again had her seeing red, and she had a headache as well. “I swear to you, Tabitha Williams, I’m going to kill you as soon as I’m out of here, and I will be getting out. You just wait and see.”
She heard the big door slam shut, and she grabbed the bars and screamed while shaking them.
It didn’t make her feel any better, but it did give her a pain right behind her eyes that hurt like hell.
She wanted her daughter dead, and she wanted her to suffer.
While she didn’t believe that Carl was dead, she’d not been able to get in touch with him for several days now.
That was when someone nudged at her mind like they were asking permission to talk.
“Who is this?” She thought for sure it was going to be Carl, and that was just one more thing she was going to be pissed off at Tabby about. Lying to her own mother was about as bad as her telling her no, she wasn’t going to help her. “I said, who is this and I want you to answer me.”
“It’s Sirous Smith, husband to your daughter. I’m going to murder you if you upset her one more time, and I won’t make it easy either.” She told him she wasn’t afraid of someone who would marry her daughter. “You should be. I’m an old and very powerful vampire. I will—”
“There is no such thing as vampires. I asked around and people said that they’re a myth from some books that authors tell to sell books.
I know better. What are you? Some kind of mouse or something?
That would be the only type of person she could get to marry her.
” He said he’d come to her. “Sure, you will, and I’m going to win the next beauty pageant that happens around here. ”