Page 5 of Cutthroat

“Eden I’m sure there’s a reasonably good explanation for why he’s there. You know he’s not on a date, because his bougee ass doesn’t eat meat. I’m sure it’s only a dinner meeting with colleagues,” Eve added.

Eden looked at Eve as if she had lost her mind.

“Do I look stupid to you? I may be a good woman, but I ain’t never been a dumb bitch. If this was a dinner meeting with colleagues or clients, the parking lot would be filled with luxury cars, not Honda’s, Ford’s and Hyundai’s. It seems like you have a problem with turning into the restaurant. You must know something that I don’t know,” Eden said through clinched teeth.

Eve gasped. Never in their entire life had Eden accused her of something so disrespectful. It was now her turn to cry.

“Edy, are you serious? You know I-”

“This is what I know. My husband said he’d be at the office late. But with my own 20/20 vision I can see that that’s clearly a lie. I don’t see any other luxury cars in this cheap ass parking lot to suggest that any of Le Bleu’s stakeholders or shareholders are here.

We practically lived off Longhorn’s and Apple Bee’s when we were in college, so even if he doesn’t eat meat, Longhorn’s sells some good ass soup and salad. Now I’m going to ask you again, do you know something I don’t know? Because you’re doing a whole lot of stalling when all you need to do is park the car,” Eden stated.

A chill ran down Eve’s spine. She had been alive long enough to know that all people possessed a level of darkness, however she had never encountered this version of her sister. Eve knew better than to argue. Instead of saying a word, she pulled the big body car into the parking lot.

Eden was out of the car before Eve put the car in park. She opened her car door with so much force that it dented Jermaine’s driver’s door.

“Edy!” Eve shouted in disbelief.

The dark force that seemed to be driving her sister couldn’t hear anything. Eve noticed, she had to literally grab Eden’s shoulder to halt her steps.

“Eden wait. Look, for your peace of mind let’s just go in here and see what’s going on. When you see that it’s nothing, I want the 24-karat gold dessert after you buy my steak,”

The joke was lost on Eden, and Eve knew it. Eden was too filled with anger to process anything other than what was already on her mind. Instead of responding, she opened the door to the family friendly restaurant.

Neither of them had been inside the restaurant since their college days. But they maneuvered through the maze of hungry patrons with ease.

“If he’s in here he’ll be in the-”

Eve gasped and her heart stopped when she saw Jermaine behind the closed glass dining room doors. Disbelief made her stumble backwards. This wasn’t even her marriage and her heart was breaking.

Hearing Eve’s audible sound of disbelief made Eden turn to see what had startled her sister. The sight in front of her nearly made her collapse. Tears flooded her eyes as she watched Jermaine eating a steak, off the fork of the beautiful woman that sat beside him.

“En…Envy?”

The image seemed so foreign to Eden that she had a hard time making sense of it. She was convinced that she had lost her mind. For years, Jermaine had her making vegetarian meals because he said he couldn’t stomach the scent or taste of meat.

Seeing her husband, eating steak-medium at that, while kissing her younger sister felt like a bad dream. Her heart cracked at the realization that Jermaine had played her. She was so hurt that she couldn’t even hear the sounds of the restaurant around her. The sounds of forks scraping plates, babies crying, and friendly banter had all disappeared. The only thing she heard was the knife piercing her heart.

The dial in Eden’s brain began to shift from good to bad. Her hands trembled as she fought to regain the control she was losing.

“Oh, hell no,” Eve said as she watched her brother-in-law and whore of a little sister damn near maul each other in a public setting. The comfortability that she was witnessing let her know that this was not their first time together.

From the time they were kids Envy had been a thorn in everyone’s side. But this time she had gone too far. Eve pulled her hair up into a high ponytail andprepared to run into the dining room, but she stopped when she felt Eden’s hand around her wrist.

“Let’s go Eve,” Eden said as she stared at the man she vowed to love for the rest of her life betraying her in the worst way. There was no coming back from this.

“Let’s go? What do you mean? You were ready to run in here and catch him. We see him being foul and you want to leave. Nah, we need to go in there in show out,” Eve said angrily.

“Nah, I’ll handle this,” Eden said calmly as she grabbed the keys from her sister’s hand.

For the second time in mere minutes, a chill ran down Eve’s spine. This side of Eden was completely unlike her. This calm was too calm to be normal. Eve followed her sister to the car unsure of what would happen next.

“Eden, I’m so sorry. I know men can do some scandalous shit, but I never thought Jermaine would ever stoop this low,” Eve said as she grabbed her sister’s hand. She was so upset that her intense hunger had disappeared.

The pain inside of Eden’s chest and the hollowness in her stomach made it impossible for her to respond. She had been nothing short of a perfect wife. Knowing that her husband could look her in theface every night and lie after spending the night or nights with her very own sister unleashed a level of devastation that she didn’t know how to cope with.

Her thoughts would not stop. He said that he planned to do things to her after he got home. So was he planning to make love to her after fucking her sister. The thought made hot vomit spew from her mouth.

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