Turn Up The Heat

Chapter 45 - Blake

I must have heard him wrong. There is no way that this has anything to do with Riley. My heart starts racing because I know deep down this has something to do with what happened to her all those years ago.

There is a knock on the door and I open it up to see Chris and I let him in. "I'm sorry I just didn't want to discuss all of this over the phone." I gesture for him to come in and once he does he sits down on the couch as I go an grab us a couple of beers.

"What do you mean by that Riley is involved Chris? Because right now I am starting to freak the fuck out." He sighs as he opens his beer and takes a long drink out of it before sitting it on the table. When he turns to me I can see the worry in his eyes. "Her parents house was part of the Charleston Management Company. I think her parents were targeted, for some apparent reason."

"This doesn't make any fucking sense at all." I get up and start to pace the living room, trying to rack my brain of why, and how they are involved in all this. I mean what I do remember of them they did seem a bit paranoid. Shit!

"I know man, my buddy is still looking into the connection between them. I'll let you know once I hear more. But Blake if Riley was involved without even knowing it she could be in serious danger." He finishes his beer and then stands up. " I need to go but I needed to tell you this in person. My buddy will get to the bottom of this and we will hopefully have some answers soon.

"Thanks Chris. I will keep an extra eye out for her. Let me know when you hear anything." I shake his hand as he steps out of the house and turns back to me, "will do. Talk to you soon." I walk him to his car and hit the top of his car lightly, "See you at work tomorrow." He gives me a nod, "If for some reason you cannot make it, I got your back."

"Thanks man." He drives off and I walk back to the house as soon as I go to shut the door, a foot stops me from doing so. " What the fuck?'

"Did you miss me baby?"

This fucking woman is delusional. I swear if she was a man I would knock her the fuck out by now. Man where is my sister when I need her?

"Get the fuck out of here Angela!" She puts her hands on my chest and moves her fingers up and down. "that's not a nice way to say hi baby." She coos and I grab her wrist to get her hand off of me. But the problem is this only encourages her, by the look in her eye.

My whole body is shaking. Can't I just punch her just once? " You need to leave NOW! How dare you show your face again after THREATENING MY WIFE!"

She rolls her eyes at me like what I said does not matter. "I'm sorry baby, but I had you way before your wife did?

Is she for fucking real?

I back away from her, " I don't know what delusional world you come from, but I have NEVER been with you!" This only fuels her more. " Oh come on Blake I'm surprised you don't remember me from the time I came asking for help at her house." She puts her hands together and bats her eyelashes." I'm sorry but I just moved to the neighborhood and my phone died." I try to remember that but I really don't remember that at all. All I remember is Riley, it's always been her. "Does not ring a bell, so you need to fucking leave!'

"I remember" I whip my head around and see my wife waddling down the stairs. "it was the night we ordered pizza and she came to my house, and my hair got stuck in her bracelet."

"Oh fuck that was you!" I only remember now because I gave Ry a massage after that. " Baby go back to bed. I'm going to get rid of the trash." I see Angela seething from what I just said." Oh no Riley stay because I am getting to the best part. I'm the one that took your husband's virginity."

"Okay you have seriously lost it, call the cops Ry." I look at my wife and I see her shaking, there is a fire in her eyes that I haven't seen her this worked up since right when I came back into her life. "Oh hell no this bitch needs to fucking go. She literally needs to be locked up in a mental institution."

Angela tries to lunge after her but I block her path. "You are not getting near my wife and I never had sex with you." She throws her head back and laughs, "oh yeah how about your eighteenth birthday party."

"Y-you drugged my husband! I lost four fucking years with him because of that!" Riley moves down the stairs quick. I hold her back because I do not want her harming herself or the babies, or worse this psycho hurting her. " You fucking date raped him!"

"Ry call the cops now!" I leave no room for argument. She walks away and I see the smug look on Angela's face. I grab her by the throat consequences be damned. She is done hurting my family, she starts gasping for air. "You ever come near me or my family again I will fucking kill you, do you fucking understand." I squeeze tighter and she nods her head. " Drugged or not, I would have never fucked a deranged person like you." I let go and she falls to the floor. " Do not ever show your face around here again. I swear you have just fucked with the wrong person for the last fucking time. No one fucking hurts my family." She scurries away and I slam the door and lock it. I lean my head against the door and slide down it.

Could she be telling the truth about everything? I shake my head because that is just preposterous. Oh God I hope she is not telling the truth. Ry comes back in the room and I get up and hold onto her tight. " She's lost her fucking mind Blake, the things she said." I stoke her hair and bring my face into her neck my favorite spot to be. " I pray to God she isn't right Ry." My body starts shaking, I don't want to think of that time again. I don't remember a damn thing from most of that night. " I'm sorry baby." My beautiful wife pulls back from me and looks me in the eyes. " If she is telling the truth or not, you are not at fault Blake." The tears fall down her face. "It has taken me a long time to say that to myself when it happened to me.'

The tears fall down my face, just imagining what she went through tears me apart. " This is all my fault Ry. If I never left none of this would have happened."

She shakes her and kisses my lips gently." We don't know that for certain Blake. I was really messed up from back then, from my parents death."

I gently grab her shoulders and look into her eyes. "About that. There is something I need to tell you. I think I am onto why that fire happened all those years ago."

"What?" the shocked look on her face and her lip trembling makes me almost not want to mention this.

" I think it was deliberate what happened that night, and somehow the fires now, are connected in someway."