Chapter 28

“I hope you don’t mind me showing up like this while you two are obviously eating. I just needed some of my things and hoped to have a little time with Arrick?” Natasha is mumbling something to Sophie, but I am lost in trying to communicate with her from back here. I dump Tasha’s crap on the chair and try like crazy to find some calm inside of me, some zen to get a handle on this, and keep eyeballing my Tasmanian devil, to keep a lid on her behavior.

“Nothing to do with me.” Sophie smiles, her deathly, black widow, and I hope you die, smile. I feel all ounces of calm and control fly out the window and hope this death will be quick and painless. If these two start, I will need to protect Tasha from Sophs, and I don’t know if I’m even up to taking her on tonight. So god damn tired, and I taught her everything she knew. Now seeing the error in teaching her how to disable someone with a few kicks and well-placed thumbs. I stare at the ceiling momentarily and wonder if leaving via