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From: Eden’s dumbass husband - Eden and I are having a baby. When the baby arrives, I’m done with this. Edy flew out yesterday to meet a client.

To: Eden’s dumbass husband – I hate kids that’s why I aborted ours. Are you expecting me to say congratulations?

From: Eden’s dumbass husband – I’m expecting you to say you’re coming over.

To: Eden’s dumbass husband - Put the camera in Privacy Mode.

From: Eden’s dumbass husband : Done. You know the routine when you get here.

Envy looked at the message and laughed. To her, Eden and Jermaine were two of the densest people on the planet. A woman so desperate to keep a man and a man so unfulfilled, he’d willingly keep it in the family. The whole situation was pathetic and hilarious to Envy.

“If she only knew how many babies her husband had planted in me, in their home, she wouldn’t have taken him back,” Envy laughed .

She felt no remorse. Why would she?

“The power of the P,” Envy laughed as she patted her shaved and freshly glazed vagina.

“You need to come back to bed. You’re on my time,” Malcolm said as he stroked himself.

He had heard a lot about Envy and her qualities. But in his opinion, nothing was more telling than a man willing to lose his wife for her sister. It was the ultimate cosign that he needed to sample her. He didn’t care about her whorish tendencies, he only cared that it was his turn to sample the goods.

“Get out of my bed and get dressed. You need to go home to your pregnant wife. I’m sure she could use your company since she’s on bed rest with a high-risk pregnancy,” Envy said as she wiped Malcolm’s secretions from her stomach with his black shirt. She threw it on the floor as if it were trash.

Malcolm bristled at the mention of his wife. Envy saw the flash of anger, but she didn’t care. In fact, she smirked.

“No need to look so angry. I’m sure your wife knows that you’ve been giving that dick away since she can’t fulfill her wifely duties. I’m sure she won’t bat an eye at all that cum on your shirt. She’ll be too busy rubbing on that lopsided belly to even notice you. But that’s between you and her, get dressed and leave,” Envy mocked.

Her words did exactly what they were supposed to do. She had homed in on Malcolm’s heart, placed a bullseye on it, and launched her attack. Her aim was spot on, each deadly word landed like a missile disintegrating its target.

“You can be a real bitch you know that.”

“Yes, I do know that. Yet you’re still in my bed,” Envy shot back.

Situations like this is why she was normally against men coming to her place. They acted as if they didn’t understand what leave meant.

Malcolm flung the covers from his legs. His once hard erection now deflated. Grabbing his cum covered shirt, he turned it inside out to hide the proof of his indiscretion.

“How am I supposed to explain not coming home last night?”

“I don’t try to figure out other people’s problems. Lock my door when you leave. I’m going to Jermaine’s before Eden gets home. See you later,” Envy said nonchalantly, leaving her unwanted guest where he stood .

Though nothing surprised him, Malcolm couldn’t deny that her words stunned him. Jermaine made it seem like he was done with her, blocking her number and moving on with his life, but Malcolm knew that unblocking a number took no effort at all. Pulling out his phone, Malcolm sent Jermaine a text.

To: Jermaine – I thought you were done with the in-law. I didn’t mean to step on your toes. But you know how it is.

Jermaine’s eyebrow dipped in confusion as he read the message from Malcom. He ignored the message because the call he was on had his undivided attention.

“Cassidy, tell me you’re joking right fucking now?” Jermaine said quietly as he pinched the bridge of his nose.

His calmness made Cassidy shutter. She had worked with him long enough to know that his calmness highlighted the true fury brewing within him.

“Sir, I wish I was, but I’m not. Federal Agents came in earlier and said they were given a tip that you were purchasing kiddie vids on the company computer-”

“What the fuck are kiddie vids? Cartoons? Why would the FBI be in my office about some damn cartoons?” Jermaine asked genuinely confused .

Cassidy dropped her head and sighed. If she knew nothing at all, she knew that Jermaine Shelton had no interest in the footage found on his computer. No, he was too much of a ladies’ man for that. She didn’t want to be the person to deliver the bad news to him. Since she was unable to reach Malcolm, it looked like she would be delivering the devastating blow.

“No, Sir. Kiddie vids are not cartoons. It’s child p-,”

Cassidy hadn’t even said the entire word before Jermaine leaped from his seat. He knew his assistant hadn’t implied that anything of that nature would be found on his work computer or any electronic device.

“Cassidy, say psych right now. This is a joke, right? You’re playing on my fucking phone, right?” Jermaine screamed so loud that Cassidy dropped her phone.

Rage, unlike anything he ever experienced, made him sweat and tremble.

“Sir, I might tell a joke, but I won’t tell a lie. The computer analyst says he’s recovered over four hundred images of minors on your system. They’ve confiscated all our work cell phones and they’re boxing up your computer as we speak. I had to sneak to the parking garage to call you from my cheating phone,” Cassidy admitted .

If the situation wasn’t so dire, Jermaine would’ve laughed because he knew she was telling the God’s honest truth. The prepaid Tracfone that she purchased from Family Dollar, was kept in her center console and only used to call men that weren’t her husband.

“Sir, you gave me this job straight out of high school. Not many people were willing to give a single mother a chance, but you did. I’m always going to look out for you and Mrs. Eden. I know you didn’t do what they’re accusing you of, but they’re still accusing you. I’m just giving you a heads up,” Cassidy said somberly before ending the call.

“What the Fuck!” Jermaine screamed as he threw his office phone against the wall.

He trembled uncontrollably as he fought to make sense of what his assistant had just shared with him. His uncontrollable anger made him throw anything within range. Grabbing and smashing everything in sight.

Eden stood in the hallway as Jermaine yelled obscenities. The entire ordeal was comical to her.

“Jermaine what is going on?” Eden shouted as she rushed into the office as if she weren’t just standing down the hall laughing like a lunatic. She paused when she stepped into the office. It was completely trashed .

“Oh my God! This is not The Rage Room! What’s going on?”

The look of sheer terror on Eden’s face made Jermaine soften.

“Edy, something happened, and I have to go to the office…”

“Go to the office? It’s Sunday,” Eden said as though she didn’t believe him.

Jermaine was General Counsel for Le Bleu Luxury Hotels. Though he was always on call, having to go into the office on a Sunday was something he never had to do.

“Jermaine-”

“I have to go to the office because somehow my VPN was corrupted, and my system was compromised. I gotta go sort some things out,” Jermaine said as he grabbed his keys and ran out the door.

The terror on Jermaine’s face filled Eden with pride. She felt like a proud psycho after unleashing chaos and destruction onto the world.

“Wait until the local news spreads this story and your face is all over the city,” Eden smirked as she watched Jermaine back out the driveway and drive like a bat out of hell .

The hate that radiated through her body felt like a toxin. She had worshipped the ground this man walked on, now the very sight of him made her want to slit his throat. But she couldn’t do that to him. Death would be too easy. She needed him to feel every bit of psychological anguish that she had in store for him.

Envy pulled up behind Eden’s SUV without a care in the world. She had done this routine so often that it was normal for her. As much money as Eden made from traveling, she was too cheap to pay for long term parking at the airport. Instead, she preferred to call a ride share service and leave her car parked at home for free.

“I should key this piece of shit,” Envy thought as she stared at the shiny black SUV.

It didn’t matter to her that she drove a BMW, what mattered was the fact that Eden also drove a BMW and had enough money to purchase a $80,000 SUV just to run errands. Envy walked past the Wagoneer; she nicked the paint as she walked to the front door. She opened the door as if she were the queen of the castle.

“Honey, I’m home-”

“So am I,” Eden said as she raised the baseball bat and knocked Envy out cold .

Eden looked down at her younger sister and felt absolutely nothing. No pang of guilt, no indecisiveness, no emotion. She was no more than an intruder.

“You had the audacity to walk into my house and take your dress off and announce your presence. I don’t feel bad for anything I’m going to do to you tonight. You deserve everything. You backstabbing ass bitch,” Eden seethed as she looked down at her unconscious sister.

Grabbing her by the legs, Eden pulled Envy to the basement door and kicked her body down the seventeen stairs. She watched as she tumbled, rolled, and bumped her head on each non carpeted stair. Envy grunted, but she didn’t move. Taking the steps one at a time, Eden walked slowly toward her younger sister. She wanted to savor every moment of what she had planned.

“Wake your dick hopping ass up!” Eden yelled as she doused Envy with water.

Envy screamed.

The water was so cold that it burned. She tried to free herself. It felt as though shards of icicles were burrowing into her skin. She tried to get up and run but found that she was strapped to a chair. The sound of crunching and rustling under her feet made her stop moving.

“Wha..what’s going on?” Envy panicked.

She couldn’t remember where she was. The bat to the head, the kick down the flight of stairs, and the excruciating burning of her flesh made it hard for her to focus. Yes, she had done a lot of people wrong. But to her recollection, nothing she had done was bad enough to have her tied up in a room lined with plastic.

“Oh my God! Help! Help! Ple-”

“You might as well shut the fuck up! Because no one is coming to save you,”