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LIES FEARS & LOVE
BY TROG |
CHAPTER
50 |
chapter 50
RJ’S CLUB
RJ checked his watch. It was getting late and the club was dying down, but the music was still so loud out there he could barely hear himself think as he sat behind his desk, in his office. He barely heard the loud slamming of his door when it hit the door jamb as Todd Manning flew across his desk, grabbed him by the lapels, and pounded him against the wall in one great leap. Before he had a chance to respond he felt a hard, powerful fist making contact with his chin and as the blow sent him flying across the room he felt the stinging pain of skin tearing open and the warm, wet trickle of blood running down the corner of his mouth, over his chin and down his throat. As he attempted to get up Todd lunged at him and punched him in the stomach with such force that RJ fell to the floor and laid perfectly still as the intense pain and nausea overtook him and he just about passed out in the agony.
Todd stood over him for a moment, but RJ could not move.
“Get up, you, son-of-a-bitch! Where is she? Where’s Blair?”
RJ heard his words but as he clutched his stomach and attempted to speak, his throat tightened with the vomit rising up in his gut and he could not. Todd grabbed him roughly by his shirt and threw him violently on the sofa.
“Where is Blair, RJ...tell me or I swear I’ll kill you!”
Todd went at RJ again, but RJ quickly put up a hand, indicating for him to stop as he continued to clutch his side and gasping desperately, tried to speak.
“I....don’t...know,” he stammered.
Todd watched the bright, red blood running down his neck and down the front of his clean, white shirt as it soaked in and started making odd red blotches. He looked down at his red, swollen knuckles and wondered how a such small group of bones could do so much damage.
Todd leaned against the wall as RJ recovered slowly. Waiting.
“Blair came by early this afternoon. That’s the last I saw of her,” said RJ. He looked up at Todd who was leaning against the wall watching him menacingly. “What do you know?”
“I know that you and Blair were trying to buy a kid to pass off as mine...am I right?”
RJ nodded slowly as he sat up on the couch, feeling the pain of his sore liver as he moved.
“So she finally told you,” said RJ.
Todd looked over at him oddly.
“Blair didn’t tell me anything. I found out another way.”
“What? When Blair left here I had convinced her to go and tell you the truth about losing your kid, man. That’s the truth!”
Todd observed him quietly.
“And why would you do that, RJ?”
“Because I’m sick of this shit, man! I’m out of it. Look when Blair first came to me, I told her I’d help her because, God knows I hated you enough. I hated you for taking Tea away from me!”
“I didn’t take Tea away from you...I didn’t put a gun to her head! Tea left you because she wants me...don’t you get it? TEA LOVES ME!” shouted Todd.
“Whatever!” RJ shouted back. “You think you’re the only one who feels pain, Manning? When I lost Tea, I felt like I’d lost everything! My whole fucking world came crashing down on me! It doesn’t matter whether you took her...or whether she left me...the pain was the same.”
“So you think that gives you the right to do this to me...to Tea...to my unborn child?”
RJ laughed, as he clutched his painful side.
“Oh...what...now you don’t understand revenge? Don’t be a hypocrite, Todd...you’re the master!”
Todd looked away.
“Yeah, maybe I am the master of revenge, but it stops at buying babies. It’s obvious to me that you don’t have children. How the fuck did you get involved in this, RJ?”
RJ shook his head.
“It seemed like a great idea at the time? I don’t know...Blair convinced me that you’d come back to her if she had your kid...and I guess I just didn’t want you to wind up getting the girl...getting Tea. I didn’t know that the two of you had a kid...not till Blair told me today. But I told you, man it’s over. I put a stop to the adoption and told Blair to go and tell you the truth. That’s the last I saw of her. I thought she was on her way to see you.”
Todd stared at him, trying to believe his story. RJ certainly had no reason to lie at this point.
“Blair didn’t come to see me and I just went by her place and she’s not there. I called everywhere, but I can’t find her...that’s why I came here.”
RJ checked his watch.
“It’s after one...where could she be?”
RJ had a troublesome expression on his face and Todd wondered if there was more to this story than he was saying.
“Look, Todd, I think Blair’s losing it! I’ve been trying to get her to drop this for a while, but she’s just convinced that you’re still in love with her...and...”
“And what?” asked Todd.
“I think...sometimes...she still believes she’s pregnant,” said RJ looking up at Todd. “I’m telling you, man she’s lost it.”
Todd walked closer to him.
“Are you telling me that Blair still thinks she’s pregnant?”
RJ nodded slowly.
“Oh, man!” said Todd shaking his head. “Where the hell could she be?”
Todd looked over at RJ who seemed to be feeling better, but was still bleeding a lot.
“Maybe you should clean yourself up,” said Todd, pointing at the blood dribbling down his chin.
RJ touched the broken skin and stared at the blood on his fingertips, getting a little dizzy at the sight of his own blood. He got up slowly and walked behind his desk, looking through the drawer for tissues. When he opened the bottom drawer, he suddenly stopped and looked back at Todd with a terrified expression.
“Oh my God,” he said quietly.
“What? What’s going on?”
RJ started checking all the other drawers quickly, digging beneath piles of paper, but he didn’t see the gun anywhere.
“My gun is missing.”
Todd just stared at him silently. Suddenly Todd reached for the phone and called the penthouse, but the phone just kept ringing until the machine came on.
“Tea...it’s me...pick up...come on, baby, please pick up.”
He slammed down the phone and dialed her cell phone, but again it kept ringing and there was still no answer.
“Maybe, Tea’s out...maybe she went looking for you!” RJ said weakly.
“I left her an hour ago with the kids and the housekeeper....call Bo and tell him what’s going on, RJ...I’m going home!” Shouted Todd as he ran out.
2002 Copyright by Trog
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