Vows, Vendettas and a Little Black Dress by Kyra Davis

Author:Kyra Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Red Dress Ink
Published: 2010-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14

It’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind. Apparently it’s a man’s prerogative to not use his mind at all.

–Fatally Yours

“I still don’t understand!” Mary Ann said after I had finished explaining it for the hundredth time. “You were so sure it was Chrissie. Now you seem so sure it’s not!”

“I’m not sure.” I had made tea at Mary Ann’s request but I was too agitated to drink it. Now I sat on the armrest of my sofa letting the steam from my oversize mug clear my pores. “I’m not sure of anything. But if you think about it, the whole Chrissie thing doesn’t really fit.”

“It doesn’t?’

“You said it yourself. Chrissie is a big one for planning and she’s all about biding her time. Starting MAAP just to put Tim in an awkward spot with his family and church…I mean it’s Machiavellian and twisted but it’s also kind of brilliant. And then the whole thing about waiting until she found someone to bruise her so she could accuse Tim of domestic violence…and that’s exactly what she did! She was totally provoking me and I just took the bait!”

“You were emotional,” Mary Ann said sympathetically.

“Well, yeah! That’s the whole point! She saw that I was emotional and she used it! And she knew that Tim would come off as guilty because he’s, like, supersensitive about the whole domestic abuse thing. That’s probably due to his family history. He slapped her and he still hasn’t forgiven himself for that so when the police came with handcuffs he just sort of went with it. She knew that would happen! It’s like she’s the evil supervillain or something but she’s a Superman Returns or Batman: The Dark Knight kind of supervillain, the kind of villain that is almost impossible to beat because she always thinks things through.”

“So she’s evil,” Mary Ann said. She glanced nervously at the window. She wasn’t a hundred percent convinced that we had been shot at but even being fifty percent convinced was enough to make her a little jumpy. “Shouldn’t being evil make her seem even more guilty?”

“Anyone with half a brain could have told Chrissie that the article she was publishing was enough to make her the prime suspect if something were to happen to Dena. And Chrissie has a lot more than half a brain.”

“Okay, she has a whole brain,” Mary Ann said as she tried her best to keep up.

“Right. So why would a woman who always bides her time, who always covers her bases, why does someone like that shoot her rival two weeks after she published an article letting the whole world know that she was indeed her rival? And then she decides she’s going to shoot at us in a public park where any hiker might happen upon her? That’s not just stupid, it’s impulsive. Chrissie is totally whacked but she is absolutely not impulsive. Not even a little bit.”

“So then who? You said that you think one of us could be the target instead of Dena.

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