“We were workin’ on that; fixin’ our mistakes. She’s here now, ain’t she?”
“So why are you holding a gun?” Iris laughs at him cruelly. “You told me she was coming back here with you because she’d changed her mind. I should have known you were lying.”
“Stop it, I mean it!” Greaser’s voice turns shaky as he warns her.
“Sid, you're so fuckin’ stupid. Do you think a real man like Vike is just gonna let you take her from him? I’ll bet he’s probably already on his way here to get her back and kick your ass again.” She glances back at me over her shoulder, and the smile she makes is harrowing.
“Why would a pretty girl like Alicia want you?” She turns back to look at her son.
“Moma, stop it.” He shakes his head as his eyes fill with tears.
“She loved Seggy, Sid. How could she ever love you? She doesn’t even want you as the consolation prize.” Iris laughs again, completely changed from her normal self.
“I said, stop it,” he warns her again, raising the gun in his hands and pointing it at her.
“She had his baby.” Iris continues fearlessly. “She hadhisbaby,” she repeats condescendingly. “Which is more than what that little whore you knocked up back in Kansas was prepared to do for you. That girl couldn’t get herself to the clinic fast enough.” Her laughing gets Greaser even more agitated.
“I told you to stop,” he growls at her through his teeth.
“Or you’ll do what? Shoot me?” She throws her head back dramatically. “Sweetheart, you're not man enough to shoot m?—”
Mia lets out a piercing scream when the gun goes off, and when Iris's body flops to the ground, Greaser stands over it in the middle of the room, covered in her blood.
“It’s okay. It’s okay, you’re both safe now. I was never gonna let her take our baby.” He shakes himself out of his trance andrushes toward me. “Is she okay? I didn’t mean to scare her.” He starts touching Mia with his blood-spattered hands, trying to soothe her while I continue staring at Iris’s body in shock.
“You shot her. Youkilledher.” I shake my head and clutch my daughter tighter.
“She was gonna take her from you; it was all part of her plan, Alicia. She got the baby…and I...I got you, but I couldn’t let that happen. I know how it is to be raised by her. I know how she can fuck with your head.” He slams the handle of his gun repeatedly into the side of his skull
“It was always Seggy; never fuckin’ me. He was her favorite. She’d read him stories for hours; me…? I wouldn’t even get a kiss goodnight.” He looks back at the body on the floor and laughs. “Ain’t so fuckin’ smart now, are ya moma?”
Rising back on his feet, he takes Mia and places her back in her seat. “Come on.” He talks so sweetly to her as he holds out his hand for mine.
“Where are we going now?” I take it, because I have no other choice.
“We’re gonna make this little one a brother or sister.” He smiles, kissing my lips and forcing me back into the bedroom with the end of his gun.
“You stay right there, sweetheart.” I place my pretty little girl’s carseat in the corner of the room and smile at her. “Be a good girl for mommy and daddy.” I wink before moving back toward Alicia.
“I’m sorry you had to see that, baby.” I stroke her face, smearing it with Mom's blood while she trembles. “She would have destroyed our little family, just like she destroyed her own.” I tilt Alicia’s head up so I can kiss her, and hate the way she recoils. She never used to recoil for Vike. I watched them fuck for hours; listened to her moan for him, faking her pleasure, and all while she was growing our baby inside her.
“What happened to you?” she asks, and if I didn’t know better, I’d say she looks as if she feels sorry for me.
“Dad left us with our bat shit, crazy mom, and ran off with a whore.” I laugh, ripping open the front of the shirt she’s wearing so I can worship her body the same way Vike did.
“Greaser, please.” She shakes her head when I cup one of her full, round tits in my hand and squeeze it tight.
“You let him drink from you a few nights ago.” I frown, remembering the two huge gashes I made into my thigh to let out some of the pain while I was watching.
“None of this is right. Please, let us go,” she begs me, so desperate and fuckin’ pretty.
“This is how it’s supposed to be, Alicia. You just don’t see it yet. You were always supposed to be mine. I came back for you. I promised Mom I’d get her the kid, but I knew it would hurt you too much to lose her. I wasn’t gonna put you through that. Not when I know now that I can love her, too. We can be a family. I love you.” I cup her soft cheek in my hand while she lets that sink in.
“If you love me, let us go,” she whispers through her tears.
“Back to him?” I laugh at her, shaking my head and trying to hold back my rage when she ruins thingsagain. “You’ll learn to love me. You were trying before; you just have to try a little harder now. Forus.” I look down at our little girl, reminding her why all this is so important.
“Come here.” I sit on the bed and tap my knee, and fearfully, she does what I ask, gradually lowering herself onto me. She goes rigid when I pull down the cup of her bra, revealing her perfect tit and holding it in my hand.
