This Ain't Over

ISBN: 0595505139

Author: Robbins, Cheryl

Condition: New

This Ain't Over Chapter 1I held Tori's bloody body close as she took her last breath. I was supposed to protect her. I am Spencer McNeel, and no one ever hurts what's mine. I shut my eyes tightly and in my mind replayed her final moments. We'd been living in Columbia for several months. Tori had been cut off from her friends and family. When I got home late and found Tori waiting for me in the office, I figured she was upset and homesick."Hey, baby, what's wrong?" I said as I approached her."Was it you?" she asked."What?""Grey-did you kill Grey?""You need some sleep. Come to bed, and in the morning you'll forget this shit and save me the trouble of getting mad.""I'm not going anywhere until you tell me. Look me in the eye and tell me. Just say it; just tell me you had nothing to do with Grey being shot. Tell me and I'll believe you. I'm begging you.""Tori, I don't answer to anyone-not you or anyone else. Now, I'm warning you, drop this shit and go to bed!""Spare me the bullshit and tell me! Did you kill Grey?" Tori was screaming at the top of her lungs, and I was enraged. It all made sense to her now. She could put together the pieces: the phone call from me saying that everything would be the way it should be; the gun I planted that she knew couldn't have belonged to Grey; the lack of urgency the police had in solving his murder. I could see the wheels turning as she put it all together and saw me for the man I am. She continued watching me for an answer to confirm what she finally had figured out. As the argument escalated, I knew there was no need to deny that I was responsible for killing her fiancé so I could have her for myself."You want to know, huh? I try to protect you, and all I get from you is questions! Hell yeah, I killed him. I rolled up beside him, opened his door, and looked him right in the eye before I pulled the trigger." I reenacted the scene. "He was nothing, and I did you a favor by saving you from making that