60.
Chloe
After what happened, Joe and I stood in confusion as a mysterious figure came out from the car and their headlights were turned off.
However, it was silent. Dead silent.
Joe demanded me to get behind him and I didn't hesitate. It was an eerie feeling that we both had.
"Well, well, well."
That voice...
"Look what we have here. The newly engaged couple."
"Who the fuck are you?" He asked.
"Who am I? I'm surprised you don't know who I am. But Chloe sure does."
"Wh-What are you talking about?" I replied.
"Don't be stupid, Chloe. It's me, Joshua. You really thought you could get away from me that easily?"
Joe's eyebrows began to furrow and his nose wrinkled after the stranger said his name.
"Uh huh, so you're the bastard that hurt Chloe?"
Joshua laughed, "Won't you look at that. It's the great Joe Anoa'i. It's finally nice to meet such a hot-shot loser like you."
Joe didn't hesitate as he stepped up and looked Joshua dead in the eyes with their chests bumping together. Joe was much taller than Joshua and I was surprised that he didn't have the look of fear in his eyes after Joe didn't take his gaze off of him.
"Do you really think that's gonna make me run off like a scared little animal? Oh, you're funny." Joshua scoffed, "Hey G, get out here!"
Then another person stepped out of the car and it was none other than Joe's ex-wife, Galina.
When Joe turned his head and seen the woman he recently divorced not too long ago standing right in front of him, his eyes began to shoot open at the sight of Galina.
"Long time, no see, Joe."
"What the fuck is going on, here?" Joe asked. "So you two do know each other after all?"
"What's going on? You both are so goddamn idiotic, it's quite hilarious!" Joshua laughed hysterically.
"Josh, Galina, leave us alone..."
"You're such a tease, Chloe!" She says, walking closer towards me. "Oh, you're beautiful. I see why Joe left our marriage to get to you. But your pretty little face isn't going to look cute anymore once I bash your little skull in."
I scoffed, "You're funny. Because the last time I checked, Joe left your ass because of the way you treated him and it wasn't because he wanted me at the time."
"Galina, why don't we give these two a little surprise?"
"Sure thing, Josh."
Joe was beginning to grow concerned from the moment Joshua stepped into his vehicle and was immediately focused on me and our baby.
"Chloe, get in the car right now." Joe said sternly.
"B-But Joe..."
He quickly whispered in my ear, "Listen, I need you to go and get my revolver out from the glove box."
I tried to run over to Joe's vehicle to grab out the weapon, until Galina stopped me in my tracks.
"What's wrong, Chloe?" She laughed, "Are you afraid of me or something? It's cute that you thought you could come in and sweep my man off his feet and get away with it, huh?"
Joe shoved her away from me and I was quick enough to grab his revolver out from the glove box and gave it to him before the two could notice.
Joe grabbed the revolver and started load the bullets in before hiding it behind his hand.
"Look at what we have here, Joe." Joshua says, slamming the car door. "You wanna know what's so funny? You both thought throwing us in prison was gonna make all your little troubles go away? Little did you know, Toronto's prison couldn't keep me in because the facility was full, so guess what happened? They transferred me to the Pensacola one in America and that's how I met Galina, here." He said, holding a pistol in his hand.
"So you two bastards were also behind that hitman attack, too?" I asked.
"Yeah! And we fucking wasted three-thousand-dollars on that amateur, Dante, because he couldn't even get the job done. What a fucking moron! Because he couldn't kill you two, we happened to take it upon ourselves to get the job done and kill you both ourselves."
"First off, Joshua, I've heard about the shit you've done to Chloe and you think you can come around here and harass us? I don't kiss ass and I've been waiting for this day to come to where I could finally beat your ass." Joe exclaimed.
Joe began to clench his fist and hit Joshua across the face to where it looked as if his jaw was broken. I watched as he fell to the ground and beneath Joe's feet.
While Joshua struggled to stand on his own two feet, Joe swung his fists all over his face until he started to lose teeth and his face became bloody almost immediately.
While I was distracted with watching Joe bloodying Joshua, I started to shake in freight until Galina knocked me on the ground and started wailing on me.
Joe
I couldn't believe what was happening. Our ex's suddenly found our location and stalked us in the middle of nowhere. But how?
While Joshua lied there with a pool of blood around his face, I quickly looked back to seeing Galina throwing her fists at Chloe and she was on top of her.
Before I could get up and hold her back from Chloe, I watched as Chloe stood up on her feet and shoved Galina's back against the concrete and started throwing punches to her face. While she was bleeding, Galina's foot came close to hitting Chloe's stomach and I pulled out my revolver and pointed the frame towards Josh.
"Galina! Get the fuck away from Chloe right now!"
"And what exactly are you gonna do about it, huh?"
I cocked my revolver.
"I'll kill Joshua."
"Hey now! Let's talk about this, Joe..."
I crouched down to his size and put the frame of my revolver against his forehead.
"Talk about what exactly? The way you tormented Chloe and thought it was funny all those years ago? Should we talk about what kind of person you really are? The one that tried putting his hands on a woman against her consent? Are we gonna talk about the manipulation tactics and abuse that you put her through? I don't think so. You aren't sorry, Joshua."
"Pl-Please have mercy on me!" He stuttered and pleaded.
I laughed, "Nah, I don't believe you."
It wasn't until I looked back at him as he also had the frame of his gun towards my face.
"Do you wanna die, Joe?"
"I could ask you the same thing, Josh. Are you gonna surrender or what?" I smiled, "If Chloe wasn't around, I'd beat your ass so much to where you wouldn't be able to walk anymore; let alone survive."
Before he could pull the trigger, I moved Joshua's hand away from my face and the gunshot went in the air.
"Did you really just try to shoot me, huh?" I yelled.
"No! It was accidental." He lied.
"You know what, Joe? Maybe I should just shoot Chloe's whore-ass instead."
His pistol was fully loaded and he attempted to pull the trigger towards Chloe, but Galina had her in a hold and they both remained silent as they both watched what was unfolding between Joshua and I.
"Nighty-Night, Chloe."
Then he pulled the trigger.
I looked over towards Chloe and tried to stand up and save her; but before I could, the bullet already shot out from the frame and it almost collided to Chloe's body.
Instead, the bullet didn't hit either one of them. I stood there and heard Joshua's hysterical laughter as he struggled to stand up. Joshua tried to put the frame towards my body from afar but before he could, I already had the frame of my revolver against his forehead once again.
"What's so funny, Joshua? Do you take pleasure out of what you've done to Chloe?"
"As a matter of fact, Joe. Yes! You should be thanking me, because she's nothing but a mistake in this world. And if I can't have her all to myself, nobody can!"
I had enough of listening to Joshua's nonsense and hearing him talk down poorly about Chloe to where I pulled the trigger without a single ounce of remorse. The bullet quickly went through Joshua's skull and instantly killed him.
Everything then went silent. I knelt down towards Joshua's lifeless body and threw my revolver down.
"Enjoy rotting in Hell where you belong; along with Dante." I huffed.
I stood up and attempted to catch my breath. I looked behind me to seeing Chloe looking mortified and Galina with a smile on her face.
"Do you really think killing Joshua is gonna make me scared of you, Joe? Are you gonna kill your ex-wife, too?" She said.
I paused and looked down at Galina with disgust written all over my face.
"Get the fuck up. Now."
Chloe
I watched as Joe threw his revolver down on Joshua's lifeless body. The amount of blood that was everywhere was frightening.
Joe stood up and demanded Galina to stand up along with him. I've never seen this side of him before and it was a whole different side of Joe.
"Get the fuck up right now, Galina."
"O-Okay." She stuttered.
She stands up and her eyes met with Joe's as his eyes were cold and emotionless.
"I want you to listen and you listen good. I'm over this bullshit, Galina." He huffed. "What the fuck is wrong with you? You tried to kill the both of us and you even teamed up with Chloe's psychotic ex-boyfriend to do the job? What's worse, you hired a goddamn hitman?"
"J-Joe. Hear me out."
"No, there's no hearing you out. This is why I divorced your ass because you treated me like garbage. You never appreciated anything that I did for you. Instead, you bitched and moaned about the smallest inconveniences!" He yells. "And because of your jealousy, you thought killing my fiancΓ©e was gonna make things better? No, it doesn't."
"But, I still love y..."
He laughed, "You still love me? That's a joke because if you really did, you wouldn't have treated me like shit to begin with. The amount of marriage counseling wasn't gonna help us and you know it."
"Look, I'm sorry for what I did to you and Chloe. I was just jealous because I wanted you all to myself and I didn't want another woman to have you..."
"Cut the bullshit! I wanna know one thing before I send your ass back to prison."
"What's that?"
"Why would you and that bastard hire Dante to kill both Chloe and I?"
"It was all Joshua's idea! I swear."
"You swear?" He scoffed, "But yet you still went with it. If you really loved me like you claim to, you would've went on with your life instead of stalking me, teaming-up with Chloe's abuser for God sake; and tried hiring someone to kill us. Do you take me as a joke, Galina? Because I'm not laughing."
She remains silent and looks back into his eyes.
"You know what, Joe?" She says, getting in his face, "Fuck you. Fuck that home-wrecker of a fiancΓ©e and fuck Joshua!"
Galina's hand went to slap Joe across the face until I quickly stood up and stopped her.
"What the fuck are you doing?" I asked.
"It's none of your damn business!"
"I'm making it my business, bitch. Get your hand away from him and take it up with me." I replied, getting in her face.
"No, Chloe. I have it handled." Joe intervened.
I shoved her onto the ground and she remained seated on the cold concrete. I looked for my phone to call the police. After finding the phone, I closed the door and watched as Joe didn't take his eyes off of her.
Half an hour passed and the police arrived. They noticed Joshua's lifeless body and questioned us before taking Galina to prison.
"So you're telling me that Joshua and this woman were trying to kill you two?" An officer asked.
We both nod, "Yes. They somehow found out where we were and attempted to kill us with a single pistol. But I'm licensed to carry for defense purposes because they were trying to attempt murder towards both Chloe and I."
Joe shown them the license for proof and they understood with the situation. Joshua was officially gone and his ex-wife was heading back to prison where she belonged.
The other officer arrested Galina after giving her the Miranda Rights before escorting her into the vehicle and driving away with her in handcuffs.
When they left, it was just Joe and I all alone in the middle of nowhere and it was dark outside; and silent.
"Hey baby." Joe said, crouching down. "Are you alright?"
I started feeling exhausted and my vision started to grow blurry after everything that transpired. I felt like I was bleeding, but I felt like I was on the verge of fainting.
"Y-Yeah." I said faintly, feeling some pains throughout my body before falling into his arms.
"We need to get you to the hospital, baby."
Joe carried me to the car and he drove us over to the hospital. Then all of a sudden, I blacked out.
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