To Love or To Kill
Chapter 5: A Familiar Backside




Chloe began to smile as she furrowed her eyebrows and said, "Uh, hi Brady?"

Belle was too pissed to even find the silliness written on her mother and new friends face, "Where the hell did you go, Brady!?" she said not even caring her mother was still in the room. Then she turned around and said, "Whoops, my bad Mom" innocently as if there really was a halo over her head.

Marlena studied her daughters face before saying, "Yes, your bad, Belle. Now what was your name again, Chloe was it? You wouldn't happen to be Chloe Wesley. The same daughter of Nancy and Craig Wesley who have both or more of Nancy been bragging all about over the hospital."

Chloe smiled sarcastically to say, "Sure if there someone who knows how to brag it sure is Nancy!" As Chloe thought, 'Everything about her shouts exaggerated or loud'. "It's nice to meet you Mrs. Black"

Marlena flinched as she heard that last name. Hadn't rarely been called that in such a long time. Which in reality had only been a few months if it was really that. Nowadays it was Doctor Evans or just Marlena. That name carried more to her and took her back to something to more than the death of John. It was something else Marlena kept buried associated with the name that she couldn't let anyone know about. "You can just call me Marlena, Chloe," she said politely to the teenage girl.

Chloe smiled but then realized something was off about this situation and then it struck her, "Belle my interview starts at 5 pm. It's now about (looking at the kitchen clock) 4:58 pm. I'm gong to be so late. I thought you said your brother would be able to give us a ride there?" she said as she began to become nervous. 'Great first impressions, by being late to your interview,' she thought.

Belle felt bad for having put Chloe in this place and felt as if she could kill Brady for making her feel that way. "This is all Brady's fault!" she said aloud not having meant to. Belle turned apologetically to Chloe and said, "I'm so sorry Chloe. I knew I couldn't rely on that…that (sighing heavily) That busy body for anything. He didn't even have the nerve to LET me know he was leaving. I'm so going to get him back for this later" Belle said as a light flickered on in her head. Looking to her mother Belle asked, "Mom do you think you could drop me and Chloe off at Basic Black. I know how you do like to go there because of dad but Chloe has an interview today for them and I have already made her late. So could you do this favor for your loving daughter of 16 years?" she said giving the puppy dog face.

Marlena smiled at her incredulously at her teenage Belle. 'Just think she was doing this in her diaper days' smiling she thought. But nodded her head in acceptance as to dropping the girls off at the once owned business by her husband. Getting up Marlena went to fetch her keys and then came back into the kitchen, "Ready girl."
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Brady was sitting in the conference room with Kate and was very agitated about the fact the new model was late. What kind of impression was she trying to make? 'Not a very good one if she's late' Brady thought. Having become fed up he left his seat and turned to tell Kate, "I'll be right back. I need to drink some coffee to calm the nerves before I lay into her the facts of how to read a clock and what an APPOINTMENT means!" added an extra amount of anger to appointment.

Kate shook her head as she watched Brady walked off. He was a great leader but sure had one short fuse. The girl was only seven minutes late so far and that poor boy was having a heart attack. 'Someone needs a vacation' Kate thought as she picked up Chloe's file to study her portfolio pictures she had yet to show Brady. He was too much in a bad mood that she wouldn't want something to happen to the pictures. Like him ripping them off to release built up frustrations.
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Chloe had separated from Belle awhile back. But Belle had directed Chloe to where she should go. Having told Chloe she had someone to talk to and she would join her later. Chloe followed the instructions giving to her to the conference room.

"Here goes nothing," Chloe said as she stood in front of the door and began to walk into it. "Hi I'm Chloe Wesley…"
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Brady was heading back to the room when he saw something. A wave of hair had just turned a corner and he had began following her in the trance his mind took him to. His feet carrying him he knew not where he was going or was thinking. Except for one thing when he was walking behind her, crooking his neck at the familiarity of the back of the girl. 'She definitely working with something' Brady thought as he watch her stroll her curvaceous frame to the room he would be entering. 'She couldn't be the new model?' he thought. But he still felt stomped something about that backside and all that her was something he knew of. "Why does the back of her look so damn fine…I mean recognizable?" he questioned aloud as he began walking to the conference room to follow.


TBC…..