Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

26. Wanted dead

I open my eyes to find myself in the living room, my hands tied to the back a chair.

“Ahh, you’re awake. I was wondering how long it would take you to wake up, after all, I prefer having my victims conscious when I kill them” the man’s voice sends chills down my spine.

He rounds the corner and I get to see him. At least parts of him since he had his face covered. He was a big and burly man. His arms alone, looked like they can crush a person’s head. He screamed danger and not because I was currently his victim. There was just something menacing about him.

He takes a seat in front of me, with a glass of wine in his hand. My glass and my wine. He looked

so comfortable, like this was his house.

I try to get free, but the ropes are tight.

“You can try all you want but you’re not getting away from me this time” he chuckles. “You’ve

caused me enough trouble and I don’t like trouble”

“Who are you and what do you want from me?” I ask him.

Maybe if I can get him to talk I can get something from him and buy myself some time. There is

no way no one noticed someone breaking into my house, right?

“Let’s just say I’m someone who really wants you dead”

The urge to roll my eyes is strong. I mean, it’s kind of obvious he wants me dead. That’s why I’m.

currently tied to a chair in my own house.

“Are you one of the goons that are after my family? You got the wrong person if you think that

killing me will mean anything to them”

He laughs loudly. Full on belly laugh. As if I said the funniest thing in the world.

Fuck! I was hoping he would be part of the criminal gang that killed father. It would be so much

easier to reason with him. To make him see that I don’t mean a thing to Rowan or my family. If I’m

wrong and it’s not the gang after me, then it means I am totally screwed.

“No darling, I’m not part of any gang, but someone promised me a very good pay if I delivered the

news of your untimely death” he tells me gruffly. 4

I stare at him with shock. “Someone is paying you to have me killed?”

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till I get the job done and that’s

me darling!”

my head around the fact that someone wants me dead so badly that he or she is offering payment if

not anyone important, so who the hell would want me dead? I have no enemies, well except for Emma, but Emma wouldn’t

blood. Despite everything that has happened between us, she wouldn’t want me

People do crazy things in the name of

I was now beginning to doubt my

when the sound of glass shattering hits my

a devious smirk on his

bastard had broken my glass intentionally. He stands up and starts

he turns to face me. “Do you have any preference on how you

a psycho and I wasn’t going to wait here hoping for Calvary to arrive. Besides, if my

slit your throat.

eyes” he says

knife and starts flicking it up and

use it well.

backwards as hard as I can. I crash,

my skull. Making the throb even

the pain. Shit, the movies made this seem

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fuck?!” he growls in

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give myself or him time to react. I

me collide with the wooden floor. He turns me so that

think it will be that

shout. I take off again not caring where I’m going. I just

and I fall with a thud again,

before slapping me hard across

vision blurs. Being

hard for me, I’ll have

what he meant. I feel his hands on my hips as he tries to drag my pajama pants down. Fear encases my bones. Is this how I was going to die? Raped then murdered in

hands to my side. I still

want then I

was now inside my pants. His touch on my skin made me feel

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trying to fool but I know you don’t have

money I’m being

when I think all hope is lost, I see the lamp I had

he hit me on the head. I reach for it and

back. The knife he had planned

take it and strike, plunging it in

busts open.

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recovers, quickly stands

through my kitchen door with two other