“Fuck Megan!” she yelled, getting to her feet and shoving Johnnie.
“Take your fucking hands off me, Kendall,” Johnnie said in such a cold voice that both Kendall and Cash froze.
Kendall recovered first. “Fuck you,” she snarled, pushing him so hard he slammed against the wall.
Johnnie bolted toward her, grabbing her hands. Cash wasn’t quite sure how Kendall went from being the aggressor to the bed with Johnnie holding her hands above her head and looming over her.
“You’re not fucking stupid, Kendall. You know what both me and Christopher are capable of. Let’s forget how much you’ve pissed me the fuck off and think of my brother. He’ll have no qualms about blowing me and you away, so you’re fucking doing as I say. More than that, you’re keeping your fucking hands to yourself.”
“Or what? You’ll hit me? I dare you. You can abuse me, your pregnant wife, but you can’t stand up to your asshole of a brother?”
“Abuse you?” Johnnie echoed on an angry yell. “Before I abuse you, I’ll walk the fuck away from you and don’t look back.”
“Of course you would! That would be so much easier than standing up for me.”
Johnnie shook her. “Shut the fuck up. Being too fucking stubborn for your own good gets you into this fucking shit. I’m sick of your bullshit, Kendall. You’re leaving with Cash, until Christopher calms the fuck down. Until I calm the fuck down.”
“I hate you,” she screamed tearfully. “I’m pregnant and sick, in worse condition than when Megan was, and you’re abandoning me.”
“Megan couldn’t keep anything on her stomach when she was pregnant,” Johnnie said in exasperation. “You’ve never suffered morning sickness, so what the fuck are you talking about?”
“Nothing! It doesn’t matter. If you make me go with Cash, you’ll be sorry! Outlaw will kill me anyway, and then you’ll be crying over my coffin.”
“If that mattered so fucking much to you, you would stay the fuck out of trouble,” Johnnie snapped. “You’d do what the fuck you were supposed to do. You could very well be crying over my fucking coffin. Or would it matter to you? Don’t turn this around on me to garner my sympathy. You get none from me. For this, I think I might finish Brooks and Charlotte off. They don’t deserve to fucking live. Since this started, I’ve maintained the fact that Brooks needed to fucking die. Christopher gave the order not to kill them.”
“If you kill them, you may as well shoot me, too,” she sobbed.
“Don’t tempt me.” Pulling away from her, Johnnie got to his feet and brought his tearful wife with him. “Pack your things.”
“You’re really making me leave?”
“Yes. You made your bed, now you have to lay in it.”
Kendall released an agonized cry. “I love you!”
“Do you?” Johnnie asked, for once not moved. “If you did, you’d get control of yourself and stop making my life so fucking miserable!”
Grabbing his screaming daughter, Johnnie glared between Cash and Kendall, then stalked out of the room.
Unsure what to do, Cash stood silently as Kendall cried for the next five minutes. He had no inclination to console her. Watching her didn’t move him one bit. He had his own ax to grind with her.
“Go ahead, dance with joy,” she hissed, once she got control of herself.
Cash gave a cold smile. “Once I tell Johnnie your role in getting Fee stabbed, I might.”
Lifting her chin, she folded her arms. “Why haven’t you already, if you think I’m the cause for her accident?”
“There was no fucking accident, lady. You danced with the devil at the club’s expense. At Fee’s expense.”
“You would think that. I’m such an evil bitch I’d betray everything that’s dear to me. Everyone that I love.”
“You love no one but yourself.”
“I get it,” she said bitterly. “You’ve so graciously volunteered to spirit me away, to avenge Ophelia yourself. Star-crossed lovers that you are. When you’re the worst of any of them, including Outlaw. You know Stretch is nothing but a weak little man, who’s more gay than straight and Fee is just a sad bitch who doesn’t have enough self-worth to tell you to go and fuck yourself. Is it any wonder she and Meggie are such besties? They’re pitiful cunts alike.”
Cash balled his fists to keep from rushing Kendall and strangling her.
“The two of them probably put it in your head that I almost got Fee killed.”
“I haven’t spoken to Fee about this in weeks. Same with Stretch.”