Page 8 of Cutthroat

Eden’s hand shook as she placed the plastic card in the door and watched the light turn green. She pushed the door with so much force that the cheap chain lock at the top of the door flew across the room.

“What the fu-”

Jermaine’s sentence was cut short when Eve and Eden burst into the room. His dark skin turned white as a ghost as he stared into his wife’s face.

Regret aged his face by ten years. His vocal cords seized as he fought for words.

Eve wasted no time. She wanted no parts of a stare off, she attacked Envy with the ferocity of a lion on a gazelle.

Envy screamed. The attack was so vicious that strangers would’ve never guessed that the two women were blood sisters. Envy tried to escape, but the sheets that she used to cover her nudity were wrapped around her legs.

Eden couldn’t even focus on the attack. She was too busy assessing her husband. The sight of Jermaine’s sweat covered chocolate body and the bible hiding his condom-less manhood. There was no putting Eden’s heart together. She had officially seen everything she needed to see.

“Eden, I’m sorry. This… This didn’t mean anything,” Jermaine stuttered as he looked down to the floor. He couldn’t even look at her.

There was no need to throw out the phrase,‘It’s not what it looks like’because it was very much exactly what it appeared to be. He had been caught with the very person that Eden feared their children would become. There was no greater betrayal, and he knew it.

“So, is this what a late night at the office looks like. After you fucked my sister, you planned to come home and do the same thing to me, right? Every Thursday night, you come home, you don’t even take a shower. You climb your foul ass in the bed and in between my legs. I’ma ask you again. Is my sister who you’re with every Thursday night?”

Jermaine trembled. There was no way he would answer that question. She had already seen the worst thing she could see, there was no need to admit anything else.

Eden shook her head and let out a dry mirthless laugh.

Jermaine stepped backwards. He had never heard such a sound coming from her. After seeing something so devastating, he expected Eden to spit on him, attack him, or stab him. The fact that she spoke calmly without attack, terrified him.

“Edy. Eden, Baby I-”

“Let’s go Eve. We’re done here,” Eden said as she turned to walk out of the hotel room. She ignored Jermaine’s stunned look.

“We’re done here?”Envy mocked. “Oh my God, you’re so lame. No wonder all of your exes practically lived between my legs. You have no backbone,” Envy laughed.

Envy didn’t care anything about the ass whooping she just endured by her older sister. Breaking Eden down was the highlight of her life.

“Y’all need to leave and close the door behind you. Jermaine normally busts two times. He only bust once so far. See,” Envy laughed as she reached between her cum drenched legs and wiped Jermaine’s seminal fluid on Eden’s face.

Eden lost it. The last thing she remembered before being placed in handcuffs was stabbing Envy with the hotel’s personalized pen.

CHAPTER 4

“Hello?”

Eve answered her call with an attitude from hell. For the past two weeks, she received multiple calls from the last person she wanted to hear from. The fact that he thought he could talk himself out of the hole he dug for himself made Eve’s blood boil. She and Eden were thick as thieves, and by no means would she entertain the fake sincerity of a bullshitter.

Jermaine let out a sigh of relief when he heard his sister-in-law’s voice. For two weeks Eve had declined all his calls. He knew that no one in the Merci Family wanted to speak to him, except Envy, but he refused to give up.

He continued to call hoping that his aggressive approach would weigh her down, and low and behold, it worked.

“Eve, I know I’m the last person you want to speak too, but-”

“Yet you keep calling. Why is that?”

Jermaine sighed.

He wanted to tell her to get rid of the attitude, but he knew he wasn’t in a position to make any demands. Instead, he pushed forward because he knew that Eve was the only person that could make his wife speak to him.

“Eve, I know the family hates me. I just want a chance to fix things. Can you please tell me where Eden is? Please Eve. I just want to talk to her.” Jermaine begged.

He was a mess. Now that his dirty deeds were exposed, he realized how foolish his actions had been.

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