Dorothy spoke with an attorney, but was told that there was nothing she could do, the land was legally the property of Jo-Ann Denton, her step-mother. The very thought of her mother’s land, what she had labored for was owned by her ex-best friend, the woman who slept with her mother’s husband. The same woman who was there when her healthy mother, …show more content…
I don’t know this lady.”
“Mmhmm. It shouldn’t take that long, I have some news you might wanna hear.”
“Come on in,” Nellie said.
“Thank you.” Patricia walked in and stopped in a corner in the living room, she turned to face them.
John Anthony followed, but he wasn’t about to take a seat. “Lord, help me out of this,” he whispered to himself.
“I’m sorry about coming unannounced, but as I said, I have some information I think you should know.”
Nellie sat, making sure to be out of the line of fire. She scooted further down on the sofa to the end, closer to the kitchen near the breakfast bar where she could run and duck behind.
Patricia stepped back to be able to see both Nellie and John Anthony without having to turn around to each of them while speaking. “I’m sorry, ma’am, what’s your name?”
“Nellie and that’s my husband, John Anthony.”
“Oh, I know John Anthony quite well, see he and I have been having an affair.”
“Hey, hey, what are you talkin’ ‘bout, lady? I don’t know you.”
“Yes you do, you know me very well. And I would like to say that it has been my pleasure.”
“Nellie, I’on know what she’s talkin’ ‘bout, I don’t know this lady. Lady, I don’t know you. What is this, some kind of game? One of my friends don’ put you up to this. They playin’ some kind of prank, cause this ain’t funny. Nellie? Nellie, I …show more content…
As I was saying; me and John Anthony been sleeping together for over three months. I met him in church. He told me he lived with his sick momma who had cancer.” She looked at John Anthony. “But thanks to your wife, I know you were lyin’.”
“What?” Nellie stood.
Patricia put her hand behind her back. “Don’t act like you don’t know what’s going on. Well, actually you don’t. Cause I’ve been playing both of you.” She went into details about the land. “And thanks to you, the land MY great-grand worked and sweated for will finally be back in her family, ‘cause you signed the deed papers over to me if something happens to you. And honey, it’s about to happen.”
Patricia pulled the gun from behind her and pointed it, swaying it from Nellie to John Anthony. She took steps back to make sure she had the time to shoot Nellie after shooting John Anthony. She pointed the gun at John Anthony and squeezed the trigger, but nothing happened. In shock, she looked at the gun, pointed it on Nellie, and squeezed the trigger a few more times. It was