Tortured Souls (Rebels of Sandland 2)

Legion – Say what you really mean, Lady.

LadyStoneheart23 – I always do. He’s hiding something and I’m gonna find out what it is. He won’t help me press charges or get the case reopened. He’s threatened me. Said if I push it, I’ll live to regret it and told me it’s a Pandora’s box I don’t want to open.

Legion – Sounds like a great friend. I hope I don’t meet him in a dark alley.

LadyStoneheart23 – Me neither. I’m coming for him. I just haven’t decided who I’m taking down first. The stalker or the coward.

Legion – Sometimes it’s the devil who hides in plain sight, acting the part of the angel, that turns out to be the most evil fucker of all.

LadyStoneheart23 – Exactly. I hate Mathers, but at least I know what I’m getting with him.

Fuck.

In my erratic, angry state of mind, I’d typed his real name without thinking about it. I couldn’t take it back now though. I’d hit return and put it out there.

Legion – Better the devil you know, right?

LadyStyoneheart23 – Exactly.

Legion – I like it. People always spout shit about karma. I say fuck karma. You want shit done? Do it yourself. That way, you get to watch when it all goes your way.

LadyStoneheart23 – That’s what I’m hoping!

Legion – So, he died in a fight. What was your brother like?

LadyStoneheart23 – To me, he was everything. My best friend, my brother, my hero. I miss him every day.

Legion – And how do you feel now? Right this second?

LadyStoneheart23- Like I want to burn the whole fucking town down. Smoke out his murderer and give him every last ounce of my pain and misery. Let him carry this instead of me.

Legion – You don’t think he’s hurting too?

LadyStoneheart23- No

Legion – Why not?

LadyStoneheart23 – He’s laughing. Leaving me bloody roses just because they’re the same flower I left on my brother’s grave. Watching me, breaking into my garden, my house. It’s all a game to him.

Legion – You want control. You want the upper hand.

He wasn’t asking. This was a statement, and yeah, I did.

LadyStoneheart23- Damn right I do.

Legion – Then you need to do something to draw him out.

LadyStoneheart23 – Like what?

Legion – What’s the one thing that’d piss him off the most?

LadyStoneheart23 – I’ve tried bad-mouthing him around town. His reputation was in the gutter anyway so it did no good.

Legion – Guys don’t give a fuck about shit like that. What does he care about? Come on, Lady. You can do better than this.

LadyStoneheart23 – Fighting.

Legion – And?