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Chapter 3 Break Her
Shawn was reading through this file on Mimi when he came across some unsettling news, she was engaged to be married to some guy named Ross Smith. He picked up his file on Ross and flipped through it. He had to find this man's weakness, Mimi wasn't allowed to be happy, he had to break her and make her miserable so he could slip in under the radar. He couldn't use her if he was standing in the way. He found his answer sitting right there in black and white. A sly smile grew on his face as he picked up the phone, "Hey Tiffany, it's Shawn," he said, "How's my favorite working girl?...That's great, how do you feel about making some big money?...Excellent, this is what you are going to do." He hung up the phone after giving her instructions; step one was done. Now he just needed Mimi there, he picked up the phone and dialed, "Hello Fred's Florist?...I need to place an order."
Mimi stepped out of the elevator and made her way over to Ross' office, she was really happy. His note made her smile; it seemed so unlike Ross to be so expressive of his feelings. Maybe he changed, maybe he was the one. She knew her father wanted this marriage for business, but he would never allow Mimi to be in a loveless marriage. She knew Ross loved her but sometimes she wondered if she was in love with him or just doing her father's bidding. She took those thoughts from her head as she reached his office and with wearing the brightest smile she opened the office door, and in an instant her smile was gone, "What the hell is going on here!" she screamed at the lovers caught in the act of making…no Mimi couldn't call it making love, they were having sex…pure animalistic sex.
"Mimi this isn't what it looks like," he said as they both scrambled to put their clothes on.
"Really?" she said, "Did you both trip, loose all your clothes in the fall, and she landed on your dick repeatedly?"
"What?" Ross said confused, "Mimi…"
"I'm not stupid Ross!" she said, "I see you! And it looks like your cheating on me with that little slut!"
"Okay, maybe it is what it looks like…."
"You think?" she barked back sarcastically as she crossed her arms defensively.
"But I do love you," he said as he pushed the woman off of him and reached for his boxers.
"Just not enough to say faithful huh?" she said, "How long?"
"What?" he asked as he put his boxers on.
"How long have you been cheating on me with her!" she screamed pointing at her.
"I…" Ross tried to explain but was cut off.
"I just met him like fifteen minutes ago," Tiffany said, Shawn said there would be a bonus if she made Mimi cry and damn it she wanted that bonus. Adding salt to the wounds, she didn't even try to cover herself or show an ounce of shame.
"15 minutes ago!" Mimi screamed, holding back the tears.
"But it won't happen again," Tiffany said, "the sex was great in all I just don't do guys in a relationship." She slowly reached for her clothes and started to put them on.
"Well he's not in one anymore!" Mimi screamed as she took off her engagement ring and threw it at him.
"Mimi no," Ross said as the ring hit him in the chest and bounced to the floor.
"Save it for someone who cares!" she said, "All I want to know is why? Why would you do this to me?"
"I don't know," he said, "You are just…just something Mimi. You won't let me in to your heart. I don't have a place in your life."
"I loved you," she said, no longer able to fight back the tears, "I was going to spend the rest of my life with you. You had the biggest piece of me."
"But it was so small," Ross said, "It wasn't enough. Not for me. I needed more than you were willing to give to me."
"Bullshit!" she said slapping him across the face, "You weren't enough for me! If you didn't want to be with me than you should have ended it instead screwing around behind my back!"
"It wasn't like that," Ross tried to say as he reached out to grab her arms.
"Stay the hell away from me!" Mimi screamed as she knocked his hands away, "You will never touch me again!"
"Baby…."
"I never want to see you again you lying piece of shit!" she screamed at him as she stormed out of his office and slammed the door behind her.
Tiffany smiled triumphantly as Mimi ran out of the room in tears. She was going to get a lot of money from this business deal. She wiped her smile when Ross looked at her. She simply shrugged and left.
"She did huh?" Shawn said getting at the details from Tiffany, "You definitely earned it. It will be in the usual spot later tonight." Shawn hung up the phone as Zach came in smiling. "Why are you happy?"
"Because I know something that you don't know about Mimi," Zach said, "Something that will keep you away from her. Something that makes her untouchable to you."
"And what is this news?" Shawn said, playing along with his little brother.
"She's engaged," Zach said, "Your plan won't work now. I guess you'll just have to forget about Mimi…."
"Not anymore," Shawn said with an evil glint in his eye, "I took care of it."
Zach knew that look in Shawn's eyes all too well. He destroyed that woman's happiness for his own personal gain. Zach was really afraid for him; he was becoming more like a stranger to him. And the worst part is, Shawn didn't even notice, "You didn't?" Zach asked, even though he already knew the answer, "Please tell me you didn't do that to that poor innocent woman?"
"First of all," Shawn said, "She's not an innocent woman."
"She didn't do anything to you Shawn," Zach countered back, "Please just tell me you didn't do it."
"Didn't do what?" Shawn said smirk as he leaned back in his chair looking pleased with himself.
"You destroyed that woman's happiness so you could get closer to her?"
"No," Shawn said, his smirk broke into a mischievous smile, "and yes." He saw the look his brother was giving him, "Is it my fault the man she was going to marry cheats on her?"
"Was?" Zach asked, "As in past tense?"
"Yeah," Shawn said, "I arranged for Mimi to get an eye opening on the true Ross whatever the hell his name is."
"Shawn…"
"I think I did her a favor," Shawn said, patting Zach on the back after he got up, "Her fiancé was a scumbag and I liberated her from his clutches."
"For your own personal gains!" Zach said, "How is trading one snake in for another any good for her?"
"Careful Zach," Shawn growled at his brother, "Remember whose side you're on in this battle. She's a Lockhart, you're a Brady. She doesn't deserve to have you defend her!"
"I'm looking out for you Shawn, not her," Zach said, "You shouldn't get close to her. Something bad will happen if you don't let this go now, I know it. I can feel it in my bones"
"I know what I'm doing," Shawn snapped back, "and the only one who will be getting hurt is her, not me!" Shawn got into Zach's face and growled, "Do you understand me little brother!"
"Shawn…"
"Now if you excuse me I have to finalize some plans for tonight," Shawn said as he walked away from Zach and towards the stairs, he stopped before he reached the landing, "Understand this Zach, you can disapprove of this all you want, but I will have her right where I want her. She will be wrapped around my finger before the night is over mark my words little brother."
Zach watched him run upstairs, "You have no idea what you are getting yourself into you stupid, stupid boy." He shook his head at his brother, "And he's suppose to be my role model?" he mumbled to himself, "He's clearly an idiot and I am the more mature one. Use your head Shawn. Get out now." Zach looked up to the ceiling, "Protect him Gran and Grandpa Tom. I have a bad feeling Shawn is getting in way over his head and he doesn't even know it."
Mimi Lockhart walked into the mansion; her heart was broken in two, more like a million pieces. Her fiancé was cheating on her; she caught him in the act. Doing some blonde hair slut at his office and her mind couldn't help but wonder if she was the first woman? Was there more? She couldn't understand why he would buy her flowers instructing her to meet her at his office if he was having sex with his whore then. Did he want to be caught? Was that it? Did he want to break it off with her but couldn't? Confronting him was the hardest thing she ever had to do; but in a way she was relived. She didn't want to be with him, but in a way she did. She finally found love and it was ripped away from her. "What a joke," she said, "I will never fall in love again. I will be the biggest bitch and ice queen this world has ever seen!" She wanted to blame him so much, but she just never let him into her heart, her life. She's grown up these past sixteen years; she is no longer that lovesick puppy that drooled over Shawn Brady or any man that would give even her the slightest amount of attention. She was Miriam Lockhart and it was time to show the world how much of her father was inside of her.
"Hey princess," David said coming down the stairs, "You better get ready for dinner; tonight's the big dinner with Ross' parents."
"I'm not going," Mimi said, "dinner is cancelled."
"What happened?" he asked noticing her tears, "What did he do?"
"He's been cheating on me with anything female that walks on two legs," she said crying as her father comforted her.
"I'm sorry," he said, "but don't you cry for that man. He doesn't deserve your tears."
"I know," Mimi said removing herself from her father's loving arms. She wiped the tears away and her face hardened. She wasn't going to give Ross the pleasure of knowing he broke her, she wasn't going to let anyone know that.
"I'll cancel the reservations…"
"No," Mimi said, "we'll have a family dinner. I'm a Lockhart, we don't cry over spilt milk and that is what he is. I will not let him think he hurt me because he didn't. I'm a Lockhart, nothing can touch me."
David smiled, but he knew Mimi was just acting like this, he knew she was dying inside. Love will always be her weakness. "Okay then," he said, "a nice family dinner with my children, how could I refuse such a splendid offer?"
"Because you can't," Mimi said. She gave her father a kiss on the cheek and walked up the stairs. She walked into her room and looked into the mirror, "Never again will I let someone do that to me," she said with determination, "I will never fall in love again. I'll break hearts, not the other way around." Her face was so hard, so cold. Her innocence had left her; she was determined to be a true Lockhart through and through.
