Heart Strings

040

Slowly she takes down the phone from her ear and tucks it into her small purse hanging down her shoulder without retracting her gaze from mine. Her gaze burns even from the distance and so does mine.

Something in me tells me to walk away but I've been holding up these pent up emotions for quite too long, I need a vessel to pour it all out on and I just found the perfect sample, so without thinking, I match towards her and stop when I'm standing on eye level with her.

"So this has been your game all along huh? I always knew you were shady  but I didn't think it was this terrible." I scoff.... To think I had already started to doubt my intuition about her, to think that I actually believed for even a fraction of a second that she did truly love Andrew.

She doesn't say anything, just stares at me looking bored yet very much composed. 'Of course it doesn't bother her, that's who she is, a gold digging snake'.

I get into her face trying to get a reaction out of her "what do you think would happen if I walk in there, right now, and tell everyone what I just heard?"

"Simple." She smiles that brilliant smile I've seen across her lips a million times only this time it has a smear of hate and mischief in it "You'll only end up looking like a fool. Or better still, an attention craving bitch because admit it or not, we all know you miss daddy."

Instinctively, my hands collides with her face in a sounding slap I'm taken aback for a second still fuming. I watch her lift up her face and then blow out the strands of hair that are now scattered around her face but she doesn't retaliate, instead she brushes her hair behind her ear and lifts her gaze to mine one last time.

There is a freezing coldness in her eyes I have never seen before warning me without having to say a word and I back away when she starts to take predative steps towards me. "Be careful Alexa. I'm going to let this slide just this one time because I'm hoping you're smart enough to keep your mouth shut."

"And if I don't?" I lift my chin, defying her indirect request.

A menacing smirk creeps up her lips and her voice suddenly turns darker when she says "Hide."

***

I don't know who she thinks she is, if she thinks she can threaten me into shutting up then she's one hundred percent wrong! I storm through the back door and make my way to the living room where I'm met with Caroline having a hushed conversation with the man I was out to see.

The moment I made my entrance they both fell quiet and turned around to look at me.

"She's lost it!" I yell. "That thing that you brought into your life, she's lost it!"

They both look at me confused, trying to comprehend the rushed words I'm spitting out of my mouth. "Lexa what are you talking about?" Caroline asks.

"She threatened me!" I let out a dry humorless laugh "Brittany fucking threatened me!"

"Lexa calm down and speak words that make sense."

"Do you know that the woman you call your wife is trying to get your own company to kick you out so she gets all custody of it?" I avert my attention to Andrew.

He has a deep frown between his brows and so does the woman beside him. "That's nonsense Alexa!"

"Believe it or not Andrew she's a gold digging bitch!"

"Okay that's enough!" Caroline yells at me looking furious and disappointed "I understand that you're angry but this is just way out of proportion!"

"I'm not making this up Care..."

"Stop! Just stop!" She sounds so fed up of my nonsense for the night and in that moment I listen to the rational part of my brain that's been trying to communicate with me all night, and she's telling me that by the look in Caroline's eyes, I've messed up.