Stepbrother Romance: After Mine (Contemporary Stepping Book Series) (4 page)

“Let go of me, bitch!” Margo said before swinging
the knife towards me. I felt a stinging sharp pain in my left thigh
and equally let out a loud scream. I dropped to the floor next to
Gavin and could feel myself drift in and out of consciousness.
Margo looked at both of us, her knife still perched in her hand
with both our blood on her coat. She walked over to where Gavin had
made her throw the gun and picked it up.

She then walked over back to us and looked at us
with a disgusted look printed on her face. She pointed the gun to
Gavin then back to me and then back to Gavin again.

“Any last words?” she inquired and the thought of
dying all of a sudden rattled me. Who would Shantell be left with
if I die?

“Margo don’t do this, we can come up with some kind
of arrangement”, I blurted out.

“Would you look at that?” She replied “This whole
damn time I have not detected a single ounce of remorse in your
voice”.

I felt agitated and nervous as I pondered on her
words. Even at that time when I was faced with the possible choice
of death I couldn’t get myself to feel sorry for what I had
done.

I turned to Gavin at the sickening thought that this
might be the last time I see his face. His lips were white as day,
and completely still. My eyes dropped to the floor again and I
looked at him, he looked peaceful and I hoped that he was not
knocking on heaven’s door. The pain from my thigh was blinding and
all I could think about was Shantell and no one else. All the same,
I couldn’t get myself to admit that I was sorry and I looked Margo
straight in the eye.

“I am not sorry Margo”, I said resigned and slumped
my hands next to my body.

Margo let out a sinister sarcastic laugh before
placing the gun to her temple.

Click.

I thought the echo was the most jarring part. The
loud thundering sound of the gunshot deafened me and I looked
around at the floor. There was blood everywhere and I could not
feel my head. My eyes slowly shut as my body lost all control and
gave in to the darkness that was enveloping me.

THE END

About the Author

As wild life
supporter, and active yoga instructor, Joyner has no doubt
developed an affinity to a wild imagination.

Having spent most of her youth on a farm
just out of Calgary, Canada, with her three older brothers, she
often found herself escaping to a new world, written by her own
hand. An intelligent and accomplished student in her youth, she
made her first foray into writing during her sophomore year of high
school, when she wrote a novel titled Aunt’s Kitchen. She has been
leisurely writing novels since then. Today, she lives in a quiet
suburb in Alberta with her husband and two beautiful children.

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