Sticks and Stones - A Stalker Romance

Chapter 24 Mahara

PRESENT

As Emma continues to talk I start piecing everything that's happened together.

It was her. The whole time it was her. Emma was the mastermind behind the whole thing.

She was so obsessed with Larson that she was willing to kill and use everyone around her to get what she wanted. Knowing now how crazy she is I can't believe I never seen it and the shit with Sawyer?

I can't believe he was the person who killed Liz's parents.

Shit! I look around the old barn and see his body laying there and begin to tear up. I've never seen someone killed before, but Emma did it. She killed him right in front of me and didn't even care. More tears slip as I think about how me and Larson went to him, he was supposed to make us feel safe, but everything he was doing was to trick us.

Breathing through my nose I try to see if I can slip my hands out of the rope when I see something move out of the corner of my eye. I focus my eyes to see Harrison and Drake standing outside with a finger over their mouths silently shushing me. I divert my eyes from them focusing on Emma and Larson. She's holding the gun in her shaky hand and it's still pointed straight at me.

"You did all of this to be with me?" Larson asks.

"Yes! Of course I did! Now you know everything Larson, you know how obsessed I've been and you never even acknowledged me! For four fucking years I stood by and just watched!" She screams almost crazed.

"Why didn't ever talk to me?" He asks.

"You never noticed me!" She cries.

"How could you do this! To Liz? To me?" Larson screams at her.

"Oh poor Liz! I didn't do this to Liz! I did this to her!" She says looking at me. "I always hated Liz! I always hated everyone around me, but you!" She screams crying.

Larson takes the opportunity to move closer to her touching her face softly distracting her long enough to rush her grabbing the gun as they both fall to the ground. They're crawling around fighting over the gun when it goes off.

BANG!

My breath catches in my throat and my eyes bounce around looking for where the bullet hit noticing it didn't hit me or Larson. When I realize we're not hurt I breath heavily.

Then I hear a thud behind me and someone groaning.

Harrison. No!

I cry into my gag struggling to get out of the tight knots around my hands, but all my efforts are useless. I can't move, can't scream, all I can is sit and watch in horror.

Larson grabs the gun throwing it across the barn when Emma begins to kick and punch him trying to get out of his hold. Harrison groans behind me in pain and tear slip from eyes.

"Keep pressure on it. Okay? I need to help Larson!" Drake yells.

He gets up rushing over to Larson trying to hold Emma down when another gunshot goes off at the end of the barn causing everyone to freeze and look at the door.

BANG!

"Let go of my fucking sister!" Jeremy screams holding a gun at me.

I shriek into my gag as Larson and Drake release Emma. She laughs getting up stumbling to her brother.

"Thanks Jer." She breathes heavily.

Jeremy moves the gun from me aiming it at Larson pulling the trigger.