Song: Angry too by Lola Blanc

Later that day I meet Meagan with Rylan at the mall. We decide to meet up and get some shopping done along with grabbing a bite to eat. It's been a few days since we have seen each other. Meagan has her hair thrown up in a bun and is wearing...mom clothes. I can't help but laugh. "What the hell are you laughing at?" She sneers at me.

"You...you look like you just climbed out of bed." I laugh.

"Yeah...well you try getting ready with a baby. I mean he is into everything...hell I can't even escape to the bathroom without him up my butt." She makes a messed up face while rolling her eyes.

I hold out my hands for him. "Come to auntie Scar...I will love you."

"Hey...don't start Scar." She scolds.

I burst out laughing. "Look you need to be pampered...I am getting you the best massage ever." I point to space in front of us. "Seriously...I have Rylan we will be right over there playing you go and enjoy it."

"Scar...you can't be serious."

"Do I look like I am kidding...I got him...you go." I walk up to the lady at the desk. "You see this girl here...give her the best treatment you have." I hand her my card and she just looks at me. I love how people assume that I never have money. I watch her scan the card and hand it back to me. Then I wait for them to go to the back.I take Rylan over to the play area and find a spot where he can crawl without all the other kids running over him. 

There are a few other moms and even a few dads letting their kids play. Almost two hours later she comes out and walks over towards us like a new girl. "Look at you...feel better now."

She wraps her arms around me. "You are the best Scar...what would I do without you?"

"Hire a babysitter." I smirk.

"Haha." She picks up Rylan and we walk around the mall. We so a little bit of shopping and then stop at the Aquarium restaurant to eat. Rylan keeps pointing to all the fish. I love watching his face light up. We order our drinks but Meagan orders a tea.

"You can get an adult beverage you know...Ashton can drive us home."

"Uhm...I can't actually...I...I'm two months pregnant." She scrunches up her faces and then starts to smile.

"Oh....wow...so soon...no I didn't mean it like that...I...I'm shocked...wow...congrats." I reach over and hug her.

"Yeah...I haven't said anything to mom yet. Sam and I found out a week ago. It is too soon...I had planned on having Rylan be at least two before we even thought about having another one....and well...looks like that is not happening."

"Well...I'm sure you will do fine." When the drinks come, I drink my Long Island Ice Tea while she drinks her sweet tea. We make small talk and laugh every time Rylan gets excited when the fish come up closer to us.We finish up and head to the toy store...our last stop of the day.

 I had planned on buying Rylan whatever he picked out. As he is looking around I keep getting this feeling that someone is looking at me. I keep looking around but no one is there. Rylan picks out this huge Paw Patrol dog that is almost as big as he is. We take it up to the register and I take out my card. Then lady at the counter looks up and me and then back down and then back up at me with just her eyes.

"Is there something wrong?" I ask her.

She looks back at the card. "Says here that you are Scarlett Adler." She looks back up and gives me a concerned look like I might have stolen the card or something.

"Yes...it does because that is my name. Do I know you?"

"Not really...I just thought you were in a coma or something like that."

I glance over at her name tag, NICOLE is written in nice bold letters. Why does that name sound familiar? I let her ring us up and she hands me my card back as we are leaving in dawns on me who she is. "Hold on I will be right back...I think she didn't give me my card back." I lie to Meagan. They head out into the main part of the mall while I go back to the checkout desk. "You are Nicole...you know my husband?"

"Yes...I do..." then I hear her say under her breathe, "Asshole."

I smirk at her comment. "You're right he can be an asshole when he wants to be. Look I am actually with his sister right now and I would like to talk to you if it is alright can we meet up when you get off work."

She looks around the store to see if anyone is listening to our conversation. However no one is close by and Meagan and Rylan are already out the door. "You want to talk with me...look nothing happened between us."

"I know but I would still like to talk with you what time do you get off; I could meet you somewhere?"

She glances down at her watch. "I get off at five; we could meet in the food court if you want."

"Sounds great...I will see you later."

After shopping, Meagan takes Rylan home and even though I told her I was going I didn't. I wait for her to leave and then I make my way back into the mall. I find a table in the food court and keep watching my phone to see what time it is. Exactly five minutes after five she walks into the court. I stand up and motion for her to come over. She looks like she wants to bail however she makes her way through the tables. Before she sits down she looks around the room like she is looking for someone or something...she seems very nervous."Please...sit down." I motion towards the chair in front of me.

Her voice comes out a little shaky. "Scarlett...look I..."

"You like my husband...who doesn't. Can I ask you why did you come to my house to see me?" I know this is the girl, I can tell by her voice.

"I didn't come to your house." She says right back with a guilty voice.

"Yes you did. I heard you talking and I felt you tugging on me. You were desperate. You wanted me out of the picture so that you could get your hands on Mekhi."

"I can explain...you see I was working for him down at the Master's Den. I was one of the main girls he always had me in the room dancing and pleasing all these business partners. He never touched me but I could tell that he always wanted to by the way he would look at me. There were times that he would place his hand on the lower part of my back...sometimes slipping a little farther, other times he would wrap his arm around mine and walk with me to one of the rooms...he was always watching and...and..."

"So you thought he was into you?"

"Well...yeah...he watches all of the girls there as if we were just eye candy."

I see Ashton standing over to the side and when he sees who I am talking to he gives me a look. I shake my head and then look back at her. "Did you two ever get any closer than that?"

"No....God no..."

"Nicole...you are lying. I see it all over your face. I know my husband...I know how he can be...so just be honest with me. Did you two get any closer?"

She moves her eyes back and forth and I can see her mind working. She finally exhales and looks up at me again. "Just once...he had came into the club drinking. He had been up in his office for a while. I went to check on him and he was three sheets to the wind...and I mean he was wasted. I tried to make a pass at him hoping that we would...you know...anyway I made the move. I sat on his lap but he let me...He let me touch his nice smooth chest and how my god his lips were soft as can be with a touch of whiskey..." She closes her eyes like she is thinking back to that moment and I can tell in her voice and by the way that she is acting that she is in fact either in love with him or obsessed with him.

Wait...they kissed. What the fuck???

She goes on... "I was working my way down to his bulging pants and that is when he stopped me." She looks at me with an upset expression. "He threw me off his lap and said that there was no way in hell that he would ever cheat on you. He is so in love with you. Matter of fact he turned everything around and fired me the next day saying that it was all in the contract that we were not allowed to touch each other...that is why I called him an asshole...because he let me get that far and hell I was his best girl...how in the hell does he fire me...seriously."

I keep biting my bottom lip, trying to keep in my anger. "It is in the contract...I wrote it up with him."

"Oh...so you know how he is then...maybe he should keep his eyes and his hands to himself. I mean it's not right to just do whatever the hell you want and then blame the other for all of it. And to top it off...he fired me...me....one of the best damn girls he has ever had."

"I agree; he should keep his hands to himself." I stand up. "Thank you for taking time to talk with me."

"That's it...you just wanted to know about what happened...you were hoping he fucked me...why are you planning on leaving him now." She starts to smirk...hoping that I will say yes, however I will never give up on Mekhi...I would rather torture him than let him go.

"No...I'm not leaving him. Hell I was practically dead...I guess if he needed to get off he could have but you said he didn't so..."

"So that's it...you are ok with all of that?"

I nod. I was about to leave when she stopped me.

"I think he would have done it if it wasn't for you...you stopped him."

"No...he stopped himself. Nicole do you have a way home?"

"Uber will be here to pick me up in like five minutes."

"Nonsense let me take you home. It's the least I can do for all this shit he has put you through."

"Really...you don't mind...now I know why he loves you so much you are just too kind."

"You have no idea." We walk out together and Ashton is waiting for us.

She gives me a look. "You have a chauffeur...you got to be kidding me?" She smiles when he opens the door for us.

I let her get in first. Atticus walks over and I stop him. "You can sit up front...don't want her accusing you of staring at her like eye candy."He gives me a look.I get in and he shuts the door, then sits up front with Ashton.

She tells them where to take her. Then looks over at me. "This is so freaking cool. It must be nice to have this kind of money."I just smile and look out the window. As we pull up, Ashton opens the door for her. She stands on the pavement and looks back at me. "Hey...you wouldn't want to come up for drink would you...maybe we could chat a little more?"

"Uhm...I don't think...you know what that would be great." I get out and both of the guys look at me. "I will be fine...I will only be gone a few minutes....promise."

We walk up the sidewalk and then up to her apartment. I let her open the door and she walks in first. "It's not much but what can I say its home. When Mekhi fired me...I lost out on a lot of money so I had to downsize some. Can I get you a drink?"

"Sure..."As she goes to the kitchen I look around the small living room. She has a few pictures up on the wall and on the one shelf. "Are these your parents?" I call out as I pick up the one frame.

"Yes...they passed away a couple of years ago. That is why I came out here to find work. I just never thought I would be a stripper...hell it's really good money though. Well Mekhi pays really well that is the others only let you keep the tips and even some of them make you give at least twenty percent back to them."

"So you are all on your own...how sad." I take the glass from her and hold it up to my mouth...I don't take a sip....but pretend too. I don't trust her, knowing her she put something in it and wants me to die not like it would matter Mekhi still wouldn't want anything to do with her. I walk around the room looking at the other pictures.

She goes up to the one and grabs it. "Yeah...I really miss my parents. Are your parents still around?"

"No...my mother died when I was little...my father died over a year ago. I only have Mekhi."

"Oh..." She says as she puts the picture back down. I stand right behind her. I am so close that I am almost touching her. I feel her body freeze up and I know that she knows that I am super close to her. I know she can feel me. I take one arm and wrap it around her neck and pull her into me. With the other hand I take my trusty knife and dig it into her throat.

I whisper in her ear, "Mekhi will never be yours." I dig it a little deeper and her body starts to fight for life. She struggles against me but she is weak. I dig and then move the knife sideways slicing her throat. Her body slowly falls to the floor. I came around in front of her and squat down. I take the knife and slice her lips. "You will never kiss my husband again." Blood spatters on my shirt and all over the floor. I watch as her eyes fade out.

I should cut her into little pieces and dispose of her but I don't. I set the glass back down and clean it completely off. I walk over to the picture that I touched and clean it off. As I am walking out of the apartment I clean the door knob off and make my way back down to the car.Ashton and Atticus are both staring at me. "What?"

"Scar...tell me you didn't do what I think you did?" Say Atticus as he notices the blood on my clothing.

I laugh. "Well...at least she will never be able to kiss his lips again...will she?"

"Dammit...Scar."

"Oh...my God...what the fuck do you care. What you like to look at that ass too? You want to fuck her too...go ahead...go on up I'm sure she won't mind." I say hatefully.

"Shit...are we going to clean it all or you just going to leave it like that?"

"I could care less what you do with her."I watch as he goes up to her apartment with his bag. I know what he is doing. It's what we do.

I sit in the back of the car and wait. He comes down and grabs two coolers and goes back up not saying a word to me. About an hour later he is coming back down and placing the two coolers in the back of the trunk. He then goes back up and comes down with two black garbage bags. When he gets in he slams the door. I thought he would take me right home but we go to the crematory to get rid of her body.

I watch him do all the work and while he is working the door opens up. I see the look in his eyes and I glare right back at them.

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Author's note: Sorry so long but hope you enjoyed Scarlett's dark side. Who do you think is at the door glaring at her?