So we have come to the second to the last chapter of this story. I wanted to say thank you for giving me almost 300 reviews, that is the most any of my stories have gotten. You guys inspired me to keep writing and I knocked this out pretty fast. As a thank you I will be posting the final Chapter today as well. Please remember to review and enjoy and stay blessed.
Sam was about to sit up from his lying position when Teddy walked into the room. Sam observed the barrel of a small caliber revolver staring back at him. Teddy smiled brightly.
"Hello big brother, i think its time for a little chat." Teddy smiled evilly and moved closer to the bed. "Feeling poorly? Are you feeling badly enough that you are wishing for the merciful clouds of death to come and release you? No? Not yet, anyway."
Sam let out his breath slowly when Teddy let the pistol down. Teddy leaned over the bed, with his face close to Sam's. Sam blinked rapidly at the fumes of scotch exhaled in his face.
Teddy smirked. "I am an impatient man." Teddy said, "If I wait a few more weeks, I'll have it all. I'll have the money, I'll have the woman. Yes I'm talking about Mercedes Jones, the woman you stole from me."
Teddy stood up wobbly as he swayed slightly.
"The only reason you were able to take her from me is that I hadn't screwed her yet. That's right, I never did her. Not that I didn't want too, but she made me wait and I was happy to do it. I thought she was different you know? Thought she was good. I woulda married her. Now I am happy I didn't. She turned out to be a slut like all the rest. Giving herself to you, giving what was mines to you." He said threw hated eyes and gritted teeth.
Teddy sighed turning a bleary eye on Sam, and he gave a startled jerk, as if he had forgotten Sam was there.
"Like I said I am an impatient man. I am going to go get Miss Ice Princess tonight and show her what a real man feels like. Don't get up to see me out."
Teddy started for the door. "Oh I forgot...you can't. That old biddy Thornton told me that one of the last symptoms is paralysis of the muscles. By the way, she's dead. Who knows she might have recovered from that stroke and implicated me in poisoning you. Well, big brother, I guess I will see you again at the funeral. Yours."
Teddy staggered out of the room. It was obvious that Teddy didn't yet realize how much he miscalculated. He didn't know that Sam was to be discharged from the hospital first thing in the morning.
The dosage Sam received of the slow-acting poison was too low. Teddy slipped the poison Mrs. Thornton had brewed herself from berries and herbs into the bottle of scotch in Sam's office weeks ago. But, Sam didn't drink nearly as much as Teddy and his symptoms of liver and central nervous system toxicity were quickly recognized and easily reversible by a widely available antidote. Teddy had been to drunk to realize that Sam's paralysis was due to the gun her pointed at him and not the poison.
Sam's primary emotion was a sense of relief when he gazed at the gun Teddy had forgotten and left hidden in the hospital bedclothes. He swung his legs off the side of the bed and quickly made his way to the closet, he needed to get dressed and do it now.
Mercedes soaked in a jasmine-scented bath. After leaving the hospital, Mercedes went to hang out with Savannah and assure her that her daddy would be home in the morning. After leaving Savannah and Willie Mae, she went home to relax, Sam made her promise to relax and come to him in the morning. She had been taking care of everyone and needed to take care of herself. Sinking in the tub she finally gave a sigh of relief. After a while she exited the bath and toweled herself dry. After applying lotion she belted on her terry cloth white robe and went to the kitchen to prepare a cup of hot chocolate.
She curled up on a sofa with a new magazine that had just arrived in the mail. She opened it to an interesting article, but the words blurred and went out of focus. Mercedes realized she was crying. She got a tissue and wiped her eyes. Everything that had happened these last few months was finally getting to her.
Mercedes wanted more than what she was getting from Sam, she wanted his name, wanted to adopt Savannah and have more kids with him. But even though he said he loved her, it seemed he was happy to just say the words and not act on it. She had to tell him that she wanted more but everything that had happened continued to stop her from saying what she wanted to say. It didn't seem like he wanted more from her than good sex and loving companionship.
Mercedes was a stand by her man kind of woman, but this last episode of the Evans family antics would be her last without some kind of commitment from Sam. Who knew how it would all turn out? Teddy was still out of there somewhere.
Mercedes heard her doorbell chime and she sighed. Q said that she was sending Mike over with something or another but when it got too late she figured he would come over in the morning. Looking through the peephole she didn't see anything and figured Mike thought she was sleep. Opening the door to catch him, she was shocked to see Teddy standing there;. Shutting the door quickly she locked it and ran to the table to grab her house phone, when the door was busted open. Deciding to grab her cell phone instead Mercedes ran to her purse but Teddy was behind her in an instant. He grabbed her close as she tried to break free of him. Wrapping a cord around her neck, she reached for it as he tried to subdue her. Her vocal cords were strained as she tried to cry out for help. Carrying her with one hand as the other clung tightly to the rope, he took her to her bedroom and she went weak.
He threw her on the bed and then covered her with his body as she scratched and pushed to get him off of her. He tied the rope tightening it around her neck again as he looked at his arm. "Look at what you did baby, you made bleed."
He showed her the scratch. "Lick it."
She stared at him in disbelief and Teddy shoved it to her face. "I said lick it."
He roared. She stared at him and licked her lips but when his arm was in her face she bit down hard. Teddy screamed in pain as slapped her across the face. She angrily punched him hard and pushed him off of her. She ran to the door but he was up with her and pulled her back, causing her to lose her balance and fall into the floor length mirror. She heard the mirror break and felt the needle sharp shards of glass against her back. He pulled her up by her hair, and tossed her towards the bed. Her robe flew open and he quickly fell on top of her mumbling how long he had been waiting for that moment.
His lips went to her neck and she could smell the alcohol on his breath. "Sam." she cried out, she knew it was futile but she needed something. "Please, Sam help me."
Teddy lifted his hand to slap her again but soon the suffocating weight she was feeling was gone and she curled on the bed in pain. Sam had lifted Teddy bodily off her. He was slamming his fists into his brother again and again. Teddy double himself into a fetal position in the corner. Soon Teddy was crying and begging for mercy as Sam didn't let up. After hearing Teddy cry harder, Sam backed up nursing his sore knuckles.
"The police are looking for you Teddy. For Kidnapping Savannah, the murder of Mrs. Thornton and the attempted murder of me. I guess we will add attempted rape to the list of charges. You are not getting out of this one." Sam said panting. "It is taking everything I have in me not to kill you. But I can't risk losing Savannah over you."
Seeing Mercedes cell on the floor of the side of the bed. He bent down to grab it and he paused when he heard a gasp from Mercedes and turned slowly. Tom had the rope once again wrapped around her neck. Sam started towards him.
"Freeze big brother." He said tightening the belt around Mercedes neck. Mercedes clawed at the belt, to no avail. Her eyes were wide and pleasing. Sam could see her chest heave for want of much needed air.
"This is one thing you are not gonna take from me." Teddy said with mad desperation in his voice. "This is one thing that you will never have." Mercedes arms flailed as Teddy tightened the belt. Sam didn't think he just reacted as he moved head first towards Teddy and fell onto Teddy. For Mercedes the scene before her went hazy before Mercedes eyes, the it went black.