Steal My Life

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Chapter Ten

"I can't see you anymore," Sofia whispered harshly when she opened the apartment door to reveal Andrew Karr. "I think he knows."

"No, he doesn't know. What makes you think that?"

"He's smart—George is very smart. I think he figured it out."

"What about your plan to kill him?" Andrew suggested with a half-smile.

"Do you really think I should? Then we could be together."

"Yes, I do. Now will you let me in?"

Sofia nodded and opened the door all the way, stepping aside to let him pass. Once he was inside, she shut the door. His lips found hers and her back hit the wall. She moaned softly as his kisses caressed her neck.

They headed down the hall to the bedroom, kicking off shoes along the way which muffled the entrance of George King. His knife was in hand and a cruel smile graced his face.

"Can you sit right there, baby?" Andrew's voice carried down the hall.

"Why?" she asked breathlessly.

An audible click came, followed by a gasp from Sofia. George decided to enter the room and he stood behind Andrew Karr, whose gun was pointed at Sofia's head.

"Why, hello Sofia. Did you think I wouldn't find out about your—indiscretions? Do you think I'm stupid, Sofia? Well?" George sneered.

"I never meant to hurt you!" she cried out pitifully, her brown eyes glancing worriedly at the shinning gun in Andrew's hands.

"Then why plot against me? Yes, I know about your plans to either divorce me or kill me if things didn't go right."

"It wasn't supposed to be this way!"

"Really? Then why don't you tell me about your plan? How was it supposed to end? Me in the ground? Tell me what the hell you were doing!"

"It was a con," she whispered. "I needed the money and you seemed like such a nice guy."

He snorted in disgust. Stupid bitch…trying to play me…I'll teach you…

"I never planned for it to last this long. But I needed one thing—a child. I needed to have a baby for the plan to work. A child to care for combined with your record of abuse would have given me everything."

"Selfish little whore," he hissed, disgusted at her plans. "Good-bye."

"Please, George, please forgive me. I never meant for it to end this way!" Sofia begged.

"Well, sweetheart, neither did I."

George went to stand behind Andrew Karr, whose arm was shaking as he tried to keep the gun trained on Sofia. George placed his sharp knife against his throat and the young man gulped loudly.

"Shoot her," George hissed.

Andrew trembled and George dug the knife into his neck, breaking the skin slightly. The other man cried out and his finger slipped on the trigger.

A gunshot rang out and he smiled widely as Sofia screamed and a large red stain bloomed on her chest. She gasped for air and reached for the phone, trying to dial for help. Andrew was sobbing, but George remained unmoved.

"Get out of my house. I'll meet you in twenty minutes at your house. Now go!"

The frightened man fled the scene, gun in hand as George watched Sofia bled to death upon their bed, trying in vain to save herself.

"You—murderer… killed us both…"

"No sweetheart, you killed yourself. You did this to yourself. You were a bad girl and bad girls are punished."

"You'll pay," she gasped, drawing her final breath as the 911 operator finally picked up.

George scoffed at his dead wife and swept out of the apartment. He still had to finish the job…


"You did well," George congratulated the upset man.

"She's dead…" he said, shaking his head. "I can't believe it…"

He rolled his crystalline eyes; annoyed at Sofia's lover's melancholy attitude surrounding her demise. She was two-timing you—the only person she cared about was herself. How could you love someone like that?

"Well, you could always join her," he suggested and the distraught man looked at him curiously.

"What are you talking about?"

"You could kill yourself. Or you can take the money and run, before the police catch you."

"The police?" His voice was cracking now.

"Yes, the police. They'll arrest you for her murder if they find you."

"Murder?"

"Yes, you killed her, remember? You killed Sofia."

Andrew's eyes went wide in fright. "Oh no…" he whispered as if the serious of the situation was finally sinking in.

"If you kill yourself, then no one can connect you to her. There is no need to rub her name in the mud even if she's dead. The news of your affair would ruin her. You need to protect her."

"Kill myself?" his hoarse voice was nervous and edgy. "You're talking suicide, aren't you?"

"Don't think about it that way. You're doing it to protect Sofia. You loved her, remember? That's why you killed her—to end her suffering and to stop the affair before it ruined her. That's why you did it."

"I did?"

"Yes, and that's also why you are going to pick up the gun and shoot yourself. You are going to do it to protect her or I'll do it for you."

George moved towards him, his gloved hand reaching towards the half-heartedly concealed gun in Andrew's pocket. Andrew pulled it out and looked at the metallic weapon, sighing as he ran his fingers down the barrel.

"Let me do it."

George nodded respectfully and stepped back as Andrew raised the gun to his head. He was shaking as his finger slipped on the trigger and he died. Ahh, the power of suggestion…

George smiled widely as he grabbed his briefcase and left the apartment to return to his own. He now to play the part of the bereaved husband and call in his wife's murder. Plus he had some security tapes to doctor to pin the murder on Andrew Karr.

She got what she deserved…she tried to ruin me. She betrayed me!

Author's Notes:

I've really been slaking off on updating lately and I'm really sorry about that. I didn't get this chapter edited, so hopefully there aren't too many mistakes and Sofia and Andrew's deaths are plausible. I was going to have George shoot Andrew, but then I figured that the police would be investigating Sofia's murder and trying to pin it on George, so I didn't want to have him actually fire a gun that could potentially link him to either murder. So I tried a good old murder-suicide plot. Enjoy and thanks for reading/reviewing!