Page 28 of Cutthroat

Eden muted the broadcast.

“As you can see, he’s a little tied up at the moment with his own issues. So, coming home to save a person he didn’t know is here, will probably not happen,”

For the first time ever in her life, true fear began to creep into Envy. Eden had never been a person that she took seriously, but now she could see that she either underestimated her or pushed her too far.

“Edy. Eden. I…I-”

“Why are you stuttering? Scared, huh?”

“Scared of you? No,” Envy lied.

“Yeah, you’re scared. You couldn’t hide your fear any more than an alcoholic could hide their addiction through denial,” Eden said coolly. She tried to remain calm, but she was seething. Envy had done everything to ruin her life.

“So, what did you think would happen bringing me here? Did you think tying me up would be the only way we could have a sister to sister, heart to heart conversation? News flash Eden Marie Shelton. I don’t like you! How many of your dudes I gotta take down for you to comprehend that?” Envy shot back venomously.

Eden had already made peace with this revelation. Her sister’s actions had proved this many times over. Her saying it aloud did not ruffle her feathers at all.

“There are tons of sisters that don’t get along. It’s unfortunate, but it’s true. The smart ones just stay out of each other’s way. But not you. Not Envious Lilith Merci. You made it your mission to destroy mine and Eve’s lives. Why is that?”

Truthfully, Envy couldn’t answer that question. She never understood why her family made her so angry. Though she had the best of everything, she never seemed to fit in with the Shelton’s. When she was eleven years old, she noticed a difference in the way her parents looked at her. Eve and Eden received looks of adoration, but she received looks of aggravation and resentment. She couldn’t understand why.

She was polite, received good grades, and was just as pretty as her sisters but that look had donesomething to her. She had seen it too many times. When she asked about it, she was brushed off or ignored. But her sisters were never dismissed. Her father had taken any answers to the grave and her mother completely disregarded her after his death. Because Eve and Eden seemed to be highly favored, she made it her duty to ruin her sister’s lives.

“Y’all deserved it. Especially you.”

Eden’s eyes widened in surprise.

“That’s right. Mommy and Daddy treated you and Eve like you were better than me. Treating me like I did something wrong or like I didn’t belong-”

“Bitch because you didn’t belong!” Eden blurted. “You’re not like us! You’re not like us! You’re not like us!” She repeated.

Envy looked shocked. She blinked rapidly as if doing so would help her understand what was said.

“Wha…what?”

Eden could feel pressure building in her pelvis. She was so excited. She relished the look of hurt and confusion on Envy’s face.

“Before, I get into that, I need to handle this. Being pregnant is hard on a bladder. I literally have to pee all the time. Hold on,” Eden said as she pulleddown her leggings and began to urinate in what appeared to be a glass water pitcher.

The hard way in which the urine fell into the pitcher sounded as if bacon were being fried in hot grease.

Envy frowned. This crass behavior was unlike Eden. The foul ammonia scent and the darkness of color seemed as though Eden hadn’t drunk water in weeks. As degrading as this behavior was, the only thing that she could truly focus on was the,“you didn’t belong”statement.

“Sorry about that. I felt like I was going to burst at the seams. But as I was saying, you’re not like us. You are the product of daddy’s affair with some trashy bitch. My mom just took you in because your real family didn’t want you,” Eden said cruelly as she held up a copy of Envy’s real birth certificate.

Envy’s heart cracked.

Never in her life did she ever expect to hear something so cruel. Sadly, this was the first time she had ever seen her Birth Certificate. She only needed it to get her Driver’s License and the woman she thought was her mother provided it and took it back. She had no idea who the woman listed on the document was. The emotions running through Envy felt foreign to her. Without warning she burst into tears.

Eden was not moved by her sisters’ heaving shoulders or body racking sobs. It filled her with elation knowing how devastated she truly was.

“Sucks to be you, h’uh. Your mother didn’t want you; daddy didn’t want you; my mother couldn’t stand you and you did me and Eden wrong even though we did nothing to you. On top of that, I found out about you slipping Jason a GHB. You a real sheisty bitch. But guess what, you ain’t the only one.” Eden laughed as she threw the pitcher of urine into her sister’s tear-streaked face.

Envy screamed in disgust as the hot foul-smelling urine saturated her face and entered her mouth. Vomit galloped up her throat and raced to the nearest exit.

“I know you didn’t think you was going to get away with wiping cum on my face. That little ass whooping I gave you, was nothing compared to what I have lined up for your trifling ass,” Eden said menacingly. This was only a small sample of the degradation that she wanted her sister to experience before the real fun began.

6 months later…

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