Total pages in book: 154
Estimated words: 142664 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 713(@200wpm)___ 571(@250wpm)___ 476(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 142664 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 713(@200wpm)___ 571(@250wpm)___ 476(@300wpm)
“The issue here is that Mom was not being a wife at that time. There’s also the fact that it was through no fault of her own she was ill. Then we have the issue of Dad not knowing or understanding that she was ill.”
“Dad confides in Helen as a friend about his marital woes. Helen uses that opportunity to slither her way in. But Dad could’ve and should’ve respected his vows. Dad then came to his senses and tried to break things off to stay with Mom.”
“There’s also an issue with that. At the time, he was willing to stay, but she was still the same person with the same issues that he cheated on in the first place. So, why couldn’t he have known that he wanted to stay all along before cheating on my mother?”
“Helen decided that getting rich and making a better life for her and her spawn was where it was at and chose to threaten not only his job but mine and my mother’s life by hiring or trying to hire someone to have us both killed if Dad didn’t stay with her.”
We’d learned more about this after the last phone call. Apparently, the hitman had gotten cold feet and alerted her Dad, but when they went to the cops, he disappeared, so nothing ever came of it. But by then, it was too late; her Dad was terrified, and I guess he knew Helen well enough to know that she wouldn’t stop. The way she’d gone about finding someone was a dead giveaway, and her parents didn’t want to take a chance.
She moved the pen across the paper again as she moved from point to point and I have to admit to being amazed at her thought process. “So, you see, there are many variables to take apart and look at closely. This will decide the punishment each individual will receive.”
Genghis Khan ain’t got shit on her. He destroyed most of the known world over some step-family shit, and this one looks like she’s ready to set the world on fire, or at least her little part of it. “So, what have you decided?”
“Dad has to pay for cheating, no matter what excuse he has; this all started with his dick. Mom was ill; nothing much you could do there. Blaming her for that period in her life is like blaming a newborn for crying at every damn thing. They don’t know no better.” Fascinating.
“Still, checks and balances, her actions caused the reaction that led her husband, my ex-father, to cheat. It’s murky yet, but I’ll figure it out. Helen though, Helen knew what she was doing all along and didn’t stop when he tried to.”
“If that was all I could say, she’d suffered enough so far with what I’ve done, but what she did to me from the age of twelve to eighteen is unforgivable. The fact that she destroyed my teen years with my Dad will never be forgiven, and that brings us to Mitzie.”
“We can argue that she, too, was a child when this whole thing started; we can even say that she learned from her mother. I don’t give a fuck. She took my Dad and robbed me of every father-daughter experience so she could have one herself, even though she had a Dad who was very much alive. She’s a bitch just like the one that birthed her, and I’m going to make them both suffer.”
“She’s in jail and will be for a while because I will let my Dad know once he finds out where she is that if he bails her out, I will never speak to him again. How do you think that will go?”
“She’s already lost everything since all her shit was in that house, and her car is already gone. Oh, and I transferred some funds from her mother to her account before taking it out again to make it look like she stole from her. At the same time, I was making it look like Helen was stealing from Dad. It’s a cluster fuck, but they deserve it.”
“I’m going to destroy her reputation and cost her all of her friends just as soon as I am through destroying her mother’s.” She did that humming thing and slid another piece of fruit in her mouth while wagging her leg over the arm of her chair.
“As for my brothers, they were young as well, and I know they’re always about protecting me. I know also that without Mom and Dad’s permission, they would not have told me anything. I’ll just freeze them out for a few months; they hate that. Which means they will not be invited to my kickass house for at least six months, and I will not be answering any phone calls until I’m damn good and ready.”