A Shadow Of Doubt

A Wedding Disaster

Elliott
I wake up and look around and notice a white dress on the floor, not just any white dress. A wedding dress if I am correctly assuming. I feel something on my finger and see a silver looking ring on my left hand that looks like a wedding band. Now to figure out who I am married to.
Christine
I can't believe this and look at my face, I swear I just came here to Vegas to find new dishes and a catering and restaurant convention. I look at my left hand and I have a huge diamond engage ring and a matching wedding band. I woke up naked and didn't notice who the man was in the bed next to me. The last thing I recall is Elvis singing Love Me Tender. But that can't be right Elvis Presley is dead. I get in 5he shower and see hickeys, luckily no where any could see unless I went swimming and wore a bathing suit.
Elliott
I hear the water in the bathroom and decide to grab my clothes and I see a tux laying on the floor. Talk about the walk of shame, but with a wedding band. Suddenly I hear my phone ringing and have to find it. I reach in my tux pocket and check who is calling me. Crap it's Kate, so if she is calling me then I didn't marry her thank God. Then I see the marriage certificate. A text message comes through from Mia asking me if I have seen the news and who had I gotten married to in Vegas. Well at least I know and like the person I married. Christine walks out of the bathroom in a robe and she heads to the closet and finds clothing while I just sit and watch her as she grabs some clothes and heads to the bathroom yet again and locks the door, I really hopes she hurries up I need to use the restroom. I check and see if this is a suite or not. It's not so I have to wait.
Christine
Oh boy I married Mia's brother, I can't believe this Kate will kick both our butts. I doubt  it will have an issue because she can't deal with all Kate and Elliott's arguing and Stephanie will love it. She is crazy about Elliott, not many kids out there don't love him. He has s like an adult playmate and doesn't mind playing games with them. Now to figure out how and if we really did get married.
Mia
Okay I wonder f mm and dad have see this story yet? Graham thinks it is funny that they would both end up married to each other after they went to Vegas one for business the other for fun. Elliott was invited to a bachelor party of one of his college mates.
Grace
Mia sent me a link and said I should open it with Carrick present. I have him look as I open the link and there is a photos of Elliott in a tux and Christine in a wedding dress as she throws a bouquet and Elvis is standing by them. We are both shocked,  it at least they know each other.
Sherman Samuels
I look at my ex girlfriend and think about how I am going to get to Seattle and pay her a visit. Married or not she is still mine. I tried locating her after my last incarceration and no one knew she had even left town. Christine Blair is now Mrs Christine Grey, not hard to find her now that she is the public eyes of the news media. I walk out to my car and decide to head to Seattle. I am not bad looking so picking up a female or two in a bar isn't hard and some of them don't mind picking up a tab or two. If you get the right one that is. So I found one or two and stayed sober, but I placed a knock out drug in their drink. Can't risk getting caught again. I left last nights fun time girl in her house and had fun before I left her tied up. I have her car, cash and credit cards. But I need a bit more and tonight I am sitting waiting for another victim. I see my mark and she smiles at me, she looks very familiar to me for some reason. I introduce myself to her Sherman Samuels, her name is Emily Sanderson. The name sticks out in my mind but hey she looks like she has money so I allow her to buy me a drink. She nods to the bar tender. I have ordered a beer and excuse myself to the restroom. Since the bar tender said it will be a minute to get my favorite beer from the back.
Emily Sanderson
The creep doesn't know who I am. He only served two years for what he did to me. Here he is out doing the same thing. We weren't able to save Christine Blair from him. Or his victim last night, but tonight is his last night to breathe. It took a long time to heal and finally walk and talk again after he brutally raped me. Two years is all he got. Doug the bar tender is my brother, he told me he heard Sherman was on the prowl again and he was trying to get to Seattle to hurt Christine after seeing she got married to a rich guy.
Doug Sanderson
I found my sister tied up and nearly dead on her bed it was a horror scene. Her twenty first birthday was a day our family won't forget. Her head injuries put her in a coma. She couldn't recall what had happened. Luckily there was DNA evidence from the rape kit that helped get him arrested. Somehow he only got two years and it took her a year to heal from the injuries. I drop the mild sedative in his beer, we need him to be able to walk. I watch Emily and her drink and the second he drops the pill I switch her to pineapple juice.
Sherman
I dropped the pill when she isn't looking she is having a pina colada. It smells like pineapples, my beer has to last me so she has another drink and she is getting woozy and goes to water. I drink my beer and start feeling a little drowsy. I suggest we head out to have a bit of fun. She declines and says she needs to go home. I tell her I will walk her to her car.
Doug
I have heard the conversation between Emily and Sherman. I tell my boss we have a go. He knows about this creep and he wants to make an example of him for what he has been doing to women. Fred Wilkerson says make it good for her and his other victims.
Sherman
I escort Emily out and she is swaying a bit, but so am I. I can barely stand up. We walk across a street to the car lot across she is walking better than I am.
Doug
Emily is giving me time to get over to the parking lot, she will be driving away from here safe and sound. But Sherman is now feeling the sedative, I found a junk car and Sherman is going to get into a fatal accident. It is all set up. Five family members are taking out justice for his many victims.
Sherman
I suddenly feel someone grab me from behind as I see Emily smile and say I am sure us women don't leave a lasting impression on you at all. But you do leave it on us after all you put us through.
Emily
Breathe deeply, for tonight real men are making sure your pathetic version of the male is going straight to hell.
Doug
Get home safely take David with you okay.
David
I take her keys and open her passenger door and she gets inside.
Doug
We cover up like we are spacemen to avoid DNA and Throw Sherman in the trunk of the car. I am driving the car and we take it where we are staging the accident and make this guy drink.
Thirty minutes later Sherman is now at the bottom of a cliff and the cars has exploded. I walk down and make sure I don't leave any footprints anywhere. My friends meet me on the road and I take off the suit and put it in a trash bag. We plan on throwing it out in a dumpster at a hospital.
Emily
Is it done?
Doug
Yes and there is one less predator of women in the world. Sleep easier baby sister.
Emily
One day maybe, but he took so much from all of us.
Doug
I know.