Taking Shots (Assassins, #1)(175)



“Eleanor!” Olivia yelled.

“You stupid bitch! How could you! How could you do that to me!?”

Victoria’s hand came up over where Elli had just made contact as her eyes filled with tears. “Answer me! Why!? Why did you do it!?”

“It wasn’t me, I didn’t want to-” Victoria started but Elli’s mother interrupted her.

“Victoria Ann that is enough, if Eleanor is going to resort to hitting, then there is nothing left to be said, come here honey,” Olivia said with her arms wide for Victoria, but Bryan stopped her.

“No, you answer her Victoria. Now.” Bryan’s booming voice filled the room, and Victoria looked at him before looking back into Elli’s eyes.

“I didn’t want to Elli, I didn’t.”

“What are you talking about!”

“She made me do it,” Victoria said looking over Elli’s shoulder to her mother, everyone took in a sharp breath as Elli turned slowly to see her mother with wide eyes as Victoria continued, “She said that Shea wasn’t good enough for you when he came to the house to ask daddy if he could marry you and told me I had to break y’all up.”

“He wanted to marry me?” Elli gasped out, as Victoria went on.

“I didn’t want to do it, but she threatened to cut my cards off, and you know I need my credit cards Elli. I never wanted any of this to happen, I may be crazy jealous of you, but I would never take your man, you know that, but I had no choice.”

“You did this?” Elli asked her mother; Olivia stood a little straight, running her hands down the front of her suit jacket before she looked up at Elli with a patronizing smile on her face.

“Oh darlin’ I did this for you, he isn’t good enough for you.”

“Olivia!” Michael gasped.

“Are you kidding me?” Bryan yelled.

“Who are you to say who is good enough for me?” Elli said ignoring everyone, staring down the person that had betrayed her.

“Honey he’s trash, tattoos up his arms, dresses like a thug, he is not the man for my daughter.”

Elli just shook her head, “How dare you?”

“How dare me? Honey, its simple, I did it for you,” Elli felt like she was gonna puke. Her own mother? “It was the same thing with Justin. I knew he was cheating on you from the beginning, the way he would hit on Victoria so intently, but Victoria wanted nothing to do with him cause he had been with you, and I’d be damn before I let a Yates leave this family, so I told him about all the money you were getting and just to wait it out with you, that you’d give him everything he wanted. I did it for you, for your happiness.”

“He ruined me,” Elli said in a shaky voice, “I am better without him.”

“Now, that isn’t true. He was a good man.”

“He hit me!” Elli screamed, causing Olivia to jump as the tears ran down Elli’s cheeks. Elli had never told anyone about that but Harper and Shea. Bryan stood up from his seat as Michael took a step forward. God help Justin Yates if her papa or daddy ever saw him again.

“I doubt that,” Olivia dismissed with a wave of her hand.

“He did, and Shea loved me, he treated me good, but you sabotaged that? Using my sister as your pawn?”

“You are blowing this out of portion honey, stop.”

Everyone was quiet for a moment as Elli looked at her mother in disgust. She couldn’t believe it, she couldn’t comprehend it.

“You ruined my chance at happiness. How dare you?”

“Like I’ve said before, I did it for you.”

“I’m twenty eight years old! I don’t need you! I have been with trash and Shea is not trash! He made me feel like the most amazing person in the world! He loved me! Unlike you!”

“Oh, now that’s just uncalled for. You know I love you.”

“No, you don’t. If you did, you wouldn’t have done what you did.”

“I stand by my word Eleanor Rey, I did it for you.”

Elli shook her head slowly, tears gushing down her face. “You deliberately tried to hurt me, and we are done.”

Elli heard Victoria take in a sharp breath as her daddy moved in front of Elli, “I don’t even know you anymore,” he said, Elli watched as her mother’s eyes went wide.

“Now, Michael honey, she’s overreacting.”

“How could you do this to her?” Michael said with a shake of his head, “That’s our baby girl.”

“I did it for her.”

Michael slowly shook his head as he looked down at her with one of the scariest looks Elli had ever seen, “Leave,” he whispered.

The room went eerily quiet as Olivia and Michael stared each other down. “You don’t mean that.”

“If he doesn’t I do, now go on Olivia.” Bryan said, standing beside his brother. “You aren’t welcomed here anymore.”

Olivia looked around the room and Elli knew she had to see that everyone was disgusted with her. Liam and Noah were shaking their heads with their arms around Adina and Lauran, while Michael and Bryan looked at her like she was the biggest piece of shit floating in the Red River. With Olivia being who she was, Elli watched as she tipped her chin up, before storming out the room slamming the door behind her.

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