If You Let Him Take Me From You || Woody McClain ||

Chapter 14

Woody 

"He's lying!" Zora yelled quickly gaining Splack's attention. 

Causing him to aim his gun back and fourth between the two of us. 

"The truth is he's been trying to get with me since the day you introduced us!" She lied causing my eyes to bulge. What in the fuck was she talking about?

I was only lying in an attempt to defuse the situation. But both of us lying would undoubtedly only make it worse. Like a spark in a room full of gas fumes. 

 "I've been turning him down. I swear I have. But he was just soo persistent. And every time something happened between us he'd pop back up with his lies. Telling me that I deserved better. And that you didn't really love. Telling me I could do better! And I believed him! " She yelled as a wave of shock rushed over me. Why was she doing this? 

"But now I'm realizing that none of it was true. The truth is because of my insecurities and letting him get into my head I've been subconsciously pushing you away. And I'm so sorry baby." She apologized as a fleet of tears ran down her cheeks. And I thought I was the actor. 

"Is any of this true Wood?" Jean asked pointing his gun directly at me. 

"Hell nah man!" I yelled throwing my hands in the air and taking two steps back. "It wasn't even like that man!" 

"Then exactly what the fuck was it like then Wood?" He asked taking a moment to scratch his head with the butt of the gun again. "You know what don't even speak ... because I believe her. Zora's always been a good girl. Now that I think about it you have to have got in her head." He admitted with a menacing laugh before pointing the gun at me once more.

"C'mon Jean man! We supposed to be brother's man!" I call out just before the gun goes off and everything goes black as I fall into a pool of darkness. 

***

"Woody! Woody!" A familiar voice called out in the darkness as I struggled to get to it. Swimming full speed through the darkness only to encounter more and more darkness. 

"Whoa!" I call out as my head breaks free from the sea of pitting darkness. 

"Woody it's okay!" Gabby yells placing her hands on my shoulders which I hurriedly push away still dazed and confused as I struggle to fully wake. "It was just a dream. It was just a nightmare baby." She says in a softer tone. 

I look into her face and then over to the nightstand. The clock read well past midnight. I took a deep breath before lying back and placing my palms over my face in relief. That shit felt so real bro. 

"Are you okay?" Gabby asked still sitting up and peering over me. I removed my hands from my face and just starred at her for a moment. "What Wood? Damn!" She snarled quickly catching an attitude. 

I didn't feel like talking to her. Shit I didn't feel like talking to anyone. 

I pushed the covers back from my sweaty body and headed for the bathroom to shower. Hopefully a shower would soothe my rattled nerves. Because they were off the charts right about now. 

I wasn't much of a dreamer. I mean not in the sense of remembering them the next day. And I certainly wasn't prone to nightmares. But clearly things had changed. 

I closed and locked the door behind me before turning the shower onto a cool setting. Pulling my dampened clothes away and stepping in. The water felt good against my heated skin.

I placed my head directly under the shower head and allowed the water to run down my face.

This nightmare had felt all too fucking real. And now I was starting to overthink. Or maybe perhaps actually think for the first time about exactly what the hell I had been doing.