ODDS OF LOVE : SEASON TEN

Episode 1

Friday December 13 , 2024

" I'm not sitting down and talking to a crazy woman," Faith Lane snapped at her former lover who now stood opposite her in the living room of her apartment. The former lover who now held a gun with a silencer on her. She wished she had not left her service revolver at her brother's house in the nightstand in his spare room. But why would she possibly have needed it today? She was supposed to be off duty. She thought to herself if she didn't play this smart she would be off duty forever. She needed to keep her talking until she figured out a plan. A viable plan to escape.

She put her hand in the pocket of her black leather jacket and found her phone. Her fingers played with it. " You're not Pamela. Pamela is dead and buried. I was at her funeral. You are Penelope and you are disturbed. Let me get you help. "

The woman laughed sharply. " Shut up. You stupid bitch. You are as bad as that fucking brother of yours. Dr. Lane. Who should be dead or dying right now at that precious school of Gerald's. He destroyed my plan to kill the fat oblivious bastard so he had to die. I hope the bomb hurts. Him and Gerald and Lyle Peters who sent your idiot brother there to Gerald and Penelope's house. If it was not for them I would have been a rich widow. After all everyone thinks I'm Penelope but Penelope is really dead. She is dead and buried with her precious roses. Her award winning roses. I should know. I shot her. Just like I shot your bitch wife. Just like I poisoned Gerald. Just like I planted the bomb at Barrington Academy. "

Faith felt her heart almost stop. A bomb where ? Barrington? Dear God. DuBuis. Luci. The boys. No...... She turned to leave the apartment almost instinctively and was stopped by Penelope or Pamela or whoever the bitch was saying," Don't move. You're not going anywhere. Unless it is in a body bag , bitch. Sit down. Or I will shoot you in the back. I plan to kill you but not yet. "

Faith turned back around. " Why ? And how? How did you fake your death? I saw you dead at the hospital. How ? "

Pamela laughed coldly. " Oh yes. The hospital. After the accident that was your fault. You cheated with that bitch Melinda. She told me. I left you. I hit that car. Luckily my cousin Ross works at the hospital. Dr. Ross Palmer. He's my favorite cousin. More than that bitch Penelope. Ross helped me pretend to be dead. I didn't want to go to jail which I would have for running into the other car. What if Nigel Hawthorne - Cyrus had died? I was not going to prison for you. So Ross gave me a drug to make me appear dead. I could hear you that night, you know. When you said goodbye. He had his idiot weak husband who owns a funeral home " prepare" my body for burial but no open casket. He told my obnoxious mother it was not appropriate. She is so stupid. Like most of my family really. Long story short he hid me in West Virginia , awful state really, at his husband's family cabin and helped me get lipo , tummy tuck , face lift, so many wonderful things to make me look even more like Penelope. "

Faith was trying to understand this very convoluted plan of ..... Pamela's. She couldn't believe it. It was not possible. She couldn't be alive. But.... She had to get out of here and to the school. She needed to save her family. Her mother was right. Family was all she really had.

" Why ? Why did you do it? Just to avoid charges? It was an accident. And he didn't die. Nigel is alive. "

Pamela snapped," I didn't know that. I'm a nurse not a big time cop like you. You should have left me alone. But no. You had to give me your number. You had to seduce me. You had me move in here. Then you cheated on me with her ! That bitch. I really enjoyed killing her. I enjoyed killing them all. I'll enjoy killing you too. Maybe more. Definitely more."

Pamela stopped talking and pressed the hand not holding the gun against her forehead. She looked like she was in intense pain. Bitch. If she really had blown up the school with her family in it she deserved pain.

" It's time. It's time for you to join Melinda. I love you, Faith Lane. I hate you, Faith Lane. Goodbye. "

As her finger tightened on the trigger Faith actually saw her life flashing before her eyes and so much of it had her brother in it. He had to be alive. He couldn't be dead. What would happen to Spencer? The man couldn't make it without him. Then her phone rang and it seemed to startle Pamela who yelled," Don't answer that! "

Faith took her opportunity. She pulled her hand from the pocket with the ringing phone but it didn't have the phone in it. It had her cannister of pepper spray. She sprayed it towards Pamela's outraged beautiful face and in her eyes. The woman screamed in even more pain but still had the gun in her hand. Faith then snatched her hand by the wrist and twisted it roughly.

" Let go of me ! ," Pamela screamed wildly as she blinked her reddened eyes madly. " I'll kill you ! "

Faith ignored her words as she attempted to force the gun out of Pamela's hand. Both of their hands gripped the weapon as they began to engage in an almost tragic sort of dance together.

Then the gun went off.