"You need to get it together, El."
-Kyle Beecher
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I haven't been married to Kyle forever like most couples, but he still seems to think I'm his toy. I'm not calling it abuse, but maybe Kyle and I should have just dated, and let it stop there. He has to have ownership for his actions, and not just blame it all on me and the kids. How do you ask your wife to kill people with you? You don't. I just thought he had good charm. Human trafficking wasn't an option, same as getting divorced. We... I would lose too much money. I'm married, but alone. No one understands me. I regret killing my parents and my brother. I still could've gone back to them. I guess Kyle's "charm" went into the kids. Because Freddy is a womanizer now, Tom is his student council rep, and Rick is a bully. "You don't know me," I respond to Kyle's nonsense. I was done with him. Here's some background; I and Kyle got married when I was only 18, and then we had our kids. He urged me to kill my family and I ended up doing it. It taught our kids how to be murderers. And now my life is ruined. The only people that ever believed in me are dead. And it's my fault. Yes, I blame myself. Not Kyle.
"I know you well, El," he replies. There's his charm again. "You're my wife." I would have slapped him, but he would've killed me if I did that. It's not the time for me to die. I still have to wait. "Can we please just go through this plan?" Tom says in the background. We were going to kill the family next door, but it's too risky. "We're not killing the Clarks," I reassure him. "Then who are we going for?" Rick chimes in. "No one," I tell them. I knew Kyle would freak out, but he had to keep his little spasms to himself. "Are you crazy? We have to-" Kyle is interrupted. By who? By the cops at the door. They are knocking loudly. Kyle went through this with the kids on what to do if they ever got caught. "Ricky, Tommy, Freddy, come with me," I demand them. Kyle is about to have a spasm, but since the cops are here, there's nothing to do about it. Kyle opens the door and is greeted by a SWAT team, a helicopter, and 13 cops. "Yes?" Kyle asks, inches away from insanity. "Kyle Beecher, you are under arrest for the following charges: manslaughter, 2nd-degree murder, 1st-degree murder, 3rd-degree murder, breaking in and entering, human trafficking, assault, sexual assault, grand theft auto, grand theft, and theft. You are facing life in prison," Kyle is shocked. I and the kids stay in the back of the room. Kyle is put in handcuffs and put in the back of a cop car. The cop drives away. I'm starting to wonder why they brought so much equipment for arresting one person.
"Mommy," Rick says worryingly. "What happened to Daddy?" He's right. What did happen to Daddy?
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The Forbidden Family
Mystery / ThrillerThe Beechers are crazy to every degree. And it all got worse when the kids were born. Originally it was only Ellen and Kyle, lovers that moved to Manhattan when they got married. Then, Ellen became pregnant with her first child, Frederick. After Fre...
