Lying Lips (19 page)

The source of their anger was
me
and
my
actions.
My
betrayal. The games
I
had played. The lies
I
had told. The lives
I
had ruined. It was nothing for them to whip the sleeves off of me for the position I put them both in. And I was making it easy by being within arm’s reach of them both. 

But I didn’t run, instead I stood my ground.

“Fighting isn’t going to solve anything,” I risked speaking. “This is my fault. I did this,” I said as a fear ripped through me and gripped me by the soul. That’s when I turned to the side and was able to get a good look at them both as I spoke. “Ashton, he had no idea I was married. I never told him anything about me. Not even my real name,” I said as I looked at Asanti shamefully, sorrowfully. “And I lied to Ashton about you, Asanti. I told him I was working undercover on a story that was dangerous and needed to be away from my family to keep them from danger.”

Neither man said a word, only continued looking at one another.

Until Asanti spoke harshly and with a wicked smile. “Only a simple minded fool would believe such a lame lie.”

“That’s a funny joke,” Ashton said as I saw his body tense and prepare for what he was about to do.

My chest began to hurt because I knew what was coming.

“Not as funny as it was when your wife spread her legs and gave herself to me like she had been in desperate need of good fucking for years.”

Oh Lawddd whyyyyy
? Why did Asanti have to say
that
?

That’s when they went for one another, when Ashton drew first blood and sent Asanti staggering back in stunned silence. But Asanti came back with power and force and the two locked into battle like two wildebeests locked horns.

They fought and fought and tried to kill one another.

With me stuck in the middle.

“Ashton! Asanti!” I shouted as they threw blows, above me, below me, all around me. “Stop it!” I screamed like a crazed banshee when I heard jaws cracking and fists landing punches mere inches from me. “Stop it!”

They were going crazy and I was stuck in the middle of the madness, madness of my creating. Suddenly my heart began to race, my head began to ache, the room spun like a spinning top and before I could help myself, all I could see was black right before I remembered nothing.

When I came to I was stunned to find that I was in Ashton’s arms. Everything that happened came back to me in an instant and I was struggling to get back on me feet in a heartbeat.

“Tell this gentleman goodbye,” Ashton said to me when he had lowered me safely to the floor and allowed me to stand on my own.

I looked from one man to the other, noticed that they both bore war wounds, but clearly saw that Asanti had taken a beating. It broke my heart to see him hurt, yet it stunned me to see that my normally quiet, unassuming husband, the legal one, had emerged victorious.

“I…” I began, but found that it was more difficult than I originally thought it would be to hurt Asanti in such a way.

I looked to Ashton and then to Asanti and remained quiet.

“What do
you
want to do, Legaci?” Asanti asked me with a dangerous edge to his question.

“If you have any desire to save this marriage,
London
, you will walk out of here with me right now. You will leave this man alone, never have anything to do with him again, and you’ll come home to your husband and your
children
.”

“You don’t have to bring the children into this to sway me, Ashton,” I said feebly. “There was never any thought of me not returning to you and the kids. I love my family.”

“Do you?” Asanti asked with angry humor. “Did you love them when you writhing beneath me this morning,
Legaci
? Did you love them when you were making love with me in the park in Washington before you even knew my name? Did you love them when your legs were spread wide and you were giving yourself to me on my dining room table? Or how about when you had your legs wrapped around me in an alley in the French Quarters? Did you love them then? When you were screaming how much you loved me, were you even thinking about them?” He asked coldly, as he looked at me and wiped a small amount of blood from his lip with his thumb.

I wanted to go to him, to comfort him, to lick the blood from his fingers and experience his lovemaking for the last time. I knew I shouldn’t have been thinking that, shouldn’t have had thoughts like that on my mind at that time, but Asanti brought that out in me.

My body shook at the remembrance of him, his touch, at the realization that I had lost my mind, that I wanted more of the man that got me to ruin my world. But I battled within myself until I accepted the fact that it was over. It was done. And it was time for me to let go and walk away.

It took everything I had in me, but I turned my back to Asanti, placed my hand in Ashton’s and headed for the door.

“I love you
Mrs. Asanti Styles
,” Asanti said to me in a voice filled with pain and anguish. “
To death
,” he finished in a voice filled with fury.

Before I had the chance to say a word, Ashton spoke for me. “You have fifteen minutes to be out of my house
Mr. Styles
,” he said sarcastically. “Because I’m taking
Mrs. Bentencourt
,
my wife
, home.”

“She’s your wife
now
,” Asanti said as he looked at Ashton, then shifted his look until he was glaring at me, “but for how much longer?” He asked the question in a manner that was so menacing, every hair on my body stood on end.

“
Forever
,” Ashton assured him as he held my hand tighter and pulled me away.

“To death, Legaci,” Asanti reiterated as if Ashton had never spoken a word. That’s when I knew it wasn’t really over. In fact I knew in my heart that the hell I thought I was living was nothing compared to the Armageddon I would soon be introduced to. Looking into his eyes, I fully understood that Asanti was promising to kill me if I walked out of that door with Ashton. “’Til death do us part, my love,” my husband, the one I was leaving, said to me as he stared me down, making sure I understood what was to come.

With those words of finality, my husband, the real one, took me out of that house, to his vehicle, and drove me home to the house I shared with him and my children.

I was back with my real family again.

After having been exposed for the fraud I was.

It was time to start picking up the pieces of my shattered life.

If Asanti would let me live long enough to do that.

But deep within my soul I knew, absolutely knew, that Asanti would kill me before he allowed me to live my life without him. And he would bury me alive before he let me live a single second with another man.

To Be Continued…

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