The One That Got Away

Chapter Sixty-Six

For those of you who read the Get Your Southern On contest entries, this is my contribution. I am tickled at the results ... first place in public vote and third place for the judge's choice. I've decided to break this up into smaller, drabblish chapters and it will be continued. The contest contribution is the first six or so chapters, roughly. I don't know how long it will be, but I do have it planned. Thank you to Bridget for betaing this for me and for Clo, who created the banner.

Jacob made an appearance in the story. What do you think his part will be in the story? Will he be as blind to Tanya as Reynold was or will be an advocate for her? And yes, this is the same Jacob with the pencil dick that Bella dated in Seattle. We'll hear more from Tanya and there will be drama. Just saying.

Tanya began working at Black Auto Body. She filled out the tax paperwork. She put down fake information. By the time, Jacob would realize that the information was incorrect, she'd be long gone. Wearing a pair of skin-tight jeans and a highly-modified polo shirt, she half-heartedly filed and ordered the supplies that Jacob asked for. He also asked her to make the daily deposit to the bank.

He really wasn't that smart.

They'd just met and she admitted that her credit and life was shit. It was like an open invitation for her to steal from him. He would never even know that the deposit would be short.

This was absolutely perfect. Things were finally looking up. Yes, she was working in a stinky auto shop with a handful of grimy mechanics, one of which looked at her like she was the first woman he'd ever seen, but with each deposit, a hundred dollars, or two, or five would magically appear in her purse.

When she wasn't working, she was mirroring Bella at University of Tampa. She wore a disguise, creeping in the library or following her to and from her classroom. One day, in mid-October, Tanya listened as Bella spoke to the young librarian, Sarah and shared how she was going to have family pictures taken with her boyfriend and his kids. Tanya's blood boiled, hating Isabella 'Smella' Swan because she was encroaching on her family.

They aren't your family anymore, idiot. You gave that up. Willingly.

She shouldn't be this obsessed, but she was so pissed off that Bella was getting her happily ever after. When she dated Edward, she thought of him as all fluff and no substance, but when he got accepted to Dartmouth, she knew that he was more substance than fluff. AND, he was loaded. His family was loaded. She would be set for life. Even more so when she got pregnant. Edward was fastidious about using condoms, but when he got drunk and drugged, that fastidiousness disappeared.

Yeah, she drugged her boyfriend.

He never knew.

She could have gone to jail, but he was into it. Even forceful!

They fucked without condoms and she became pregnant with the twins. She sacrificed her body when she got pregnant. She was ready to get married and ready to share half of the Cullen fortune, but Edward forced her to sign a prenuptial agreement. It was iron-clad and if Tanya wanted any sort of support and get married, she'd have to sign. Without reading, she signed it and it ended shooting her in the ass. She got a one-time pay out when she got divorced from Edward and it barely covered the lawyer expenses.

The damned infidelity clause nailed her. Edward knew she was cheating on him and because of that, she got a fraction of the money that was due to her.

Now? She was determined to get what was rightfully hers. And that was to get 'Smella' Swan out of the picture and to get her kids back, if only for a bigger pay out. Ransom demands are a sure-fire way to get money.