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by TK
Rated: 18+ · Campfire Creative · Short Story · Death · #1707000
Suspense,mystery i hope you all like
[Introduction]
The Markings Of A Black Widow

In a town called Pleasantville things don’t always seem so pleasant. Not much goes on in the public eye it’s what awaits behind the close doors that will soon make this quite little town silent no more. Shelly and Skip Broke seem like the ideal couple. Skip was a well accomplish business man and Shelly was a stay a home mother to two boys. Damien Broke was the oldest he is fourteen years and Bo broke youngest is just now starting kindergarten. The couples is incapable.

While inside getting Bo ready for school Shelly heard a loud splash from outside. Calling to Damien to come down and help. She left off to go and investigate the situation, leading her to a gruesome site with a pool full of blood. It had seem that Skip decided to go diving and the board had broke, causing him to hit his head on the diving board, causing the fatal blow. Police reports said he had a blood alcohol content of a 0.20% which played a large part of it as well as the board not being bolted down good enough ruling it an accident cause of death. Now leaving Shelly a very wealthy women with Skip’s life insurance policy of $750,000.00. Plenty enough to start a whole new life. This time with a female friend Katrina Calloway.

Hitting it right off the bat Shelly found herself becoming very fond of Katrina. The two started relaying on each other for everything and intently leading to the two moving in with one another. But this seem to be love at first site romance, wasn’t that at all but a deep dark secret she hid from her kids. The two knew each other for four years. A four year lesbian affair she had behind her husbands back the whole time, well that is till the last year of his death. Were he caught the two in the act right in their own oldest son’s bed. Giving the biggest low blow you could give. Katrina also had a successful career as a medical student at Blue Ridge community collage. Dreaming of one day of having kids, but a tragic car wreck in her past lead her infertile. So in a private ceremony the two newly couple wed and adopted a little twelve year old girl Melanie Broke.

Not even a year within their marriage things started to spiral out of control. Katrina became very fearful of her new companion and insisting to be force to sign a life insurance policy of her own. She was pretty much a big dog on a short leash for a number of months. She couldn’t even leave the house without being stalked leading her to make the most fatal mistake of her young life. Finally deciding she had enough and with treats of telling the police what really happen with the demise of her ex husband, she never got the chance. After losing control of her car and slamming into a gas tanker truck sitting still in truck stop packing lot, leaving nothing left but ash. Leaving yet another accidental cause of death of faulty breaks.

Six years later….

Sporting a brand new look of long, jet black hair covering up a once red surface and matching long, black painted fingernails. She left her kids plus adopted daughter aside for her sister to raise. She journeyed out to find her next kill. It come easy to her in a newspaper article of a wealthy couple looking for a full time maid. Which lead her to the font step of the Ramaswamis family. Sanjay and Priya Ramaswamis were ironically also in the medical field. Both just moving to the U.S. from India, Sanjay was a doctor and his wife a assistant nurse. The perfect background for a huge score all was left is to gain the couples trust. Which came naturally to Shelly, she knew how to used her charm and sexuality to get what she wanted. Only after a month Sanjay started to hang out more with his newly found friend more than his own wife. That caused a lot of tension between the couple. Priya started to rethink her decision on having a maid around 24/7 and thought about putting her on a limited schedule. Much to the dismay her husband wasn’t that pleased with this decision. Shelly, overhearing this through the cracked door, knew it was time to put her plan in motion. Hearing footsteps coming from behind her, Priya glances back to no unveil and hears and sees nothing, but the wind on her way out to her car as she gets ready to turn the key. The wrath of a long twelve inch butcher knife strikes from the backseat and hangs from the inside corner of her throat. Stabbing her multiple times as Shelly watches her die she strips her almost naked and kisses her on the lips. Police arrive and arrest local hobo Peter Ottomas finding his semen at the scene. Peter yelled uncontrollably. That bitch set me up he constantly repeating himself.

The Doc Checks Out….

Being emotionally distrait after his wife untimely death Shelly soothes the pain and starts picking away at the bones like a buzzard. The two eventually act out their feelings towards one another and head to the upstairs bedroom. Her cell phone rings with the voice on the other end saying you have a collect call from a inmate at Pleasant County Correction, do you except the charges. On the other end it was Peter, “I know what you have done and after I tell all. Your world will crumble like mine.” Quickly hanging up on him. “Who was that?” Sanjay asked. “Oh no one. Just a wrong number. Excuse me for one second I got some business to take care of.” While hacking into the police data base on her laptop she come’s across Jesse Sanders, a violent offender, who was arrested for drugs and homicide and had a prior arrested with follow friend Peter Ottomas. She requested to set up a meeting with the inmate. She’s able to convince him that he was ratted out by his own partner and quickly had her problem removed. Everything seem to fall into place the chips were stacked, but to get the total full house she had to convince Sanjay into marring her. Which to much to her dismay was a harder task then she expected for. All her new victim was looking for was a sexual relationship and wasn’t ready to settle back down. But this evil vixen wasn’t going to take no for an answer.

Being very allusive in making dinner that night she insist Sanjay take a load off after a long day at work. She started loading him up with wine before his meal also knowing he was a former alcoholic she quickly slip a date rape drug in one of the glasses. Being by this time about halfway gone and three sheets in the wind she hurried and found some outside connections and a license priest and unknowingly duping him into marriage. Not waking up till that next morning finding himself chained up and handcuff to a chair in his own basement. He sees a blurry figure standing over him he ask, “Why are you doing this?” “Because it’s the way of the Widow my dear.” she replies with a sickly laugh. As she is pouring gas over his helpless cage body and then tosses a lighted match onto the poured gasoline watching and smelling his flesh burn. She hears the screams of pain echo from his body and to make it look even more like a homicide she decides to torch the whole house. So there’s nothing but a pile of ash from where a once seemly happy family once lived.

Blacked Out………Fourteen Years Later

After forensics trace murder and arsine back to Shelly. She arrived in a small border town of Mexico with a whole new identity of Avril Sanitizes. A new web of deceit to spin finding her next victim in the most unlikely way. Being like a moth to a flame she woke up from her cheep hotel room with a knock on her door. Standing there soaked and wet was a young women probably in her early twenties with tears in her eyes and looked to have been attacked. “What happen?” She asked the helpless woman. “My boyfriend and I got in a huge fight and well.” “Where is he now?” “I don’t know he just push me out of the car and took off.” “Well you can stay here tonight. What’s your name?” “Mindy Swanson.” she replies. Looking like the easies score ever made, she first had to find out everything she could about the newbie. To make sure all her bases were covered, being very reluctant in telling all about her past to her seemly new caring friend. Mindy started to tell her about being on her own since the age of six years old. That her parents just abandon her and being taken in by a abusive grandma and inherited a long sum after her death and putting it in a savings bond. With eyes looking like cash registers and dollar signs falling from her pupils, Avril or Shelly, whatever you like to call her. “What are you planning on doing with all that money?” She asked devilishly.

“Well I haven’t really decided yet. I thought about saving it and trying to find my birth parents.” “Save your money girl. She gave you up. You’ll just be setting yourself up for heartache. Consider me you new family now.” Mindy smiles “Okay step-mom.” They both burst out laughing. After taking her shower and waiting on Mindy to get back to the hotel with groceries Avril decides to snoop more into her roommates past. Only to be startled from a slammed bedroom door. “What are you doing?” “I thought you were gone. I just thought I’d clean up your room a little while you were out.” “Well thank you but I’m fully capable of cleaning up myself.” “Oh I know sorry.” she replied. As soon as her back was turn and got ready to walk out Mindy picked up the lamp base and whacked her over the head. As Avril came to she was hogtied to the ground. She asked “Why?” “Don’t you know, mother? Haven’t you figured it out?” “Yeah your right I took you in I’m your step-mom.” she said clueless and confused. Mindy laughed uncontrollably, “you know more. Somebody that’s so cunning as you sure is stupid. They always said the actions of the adult can have a influxes on the child.” “Who are you?” “Normally. I would make you guess the answer to that question, but considering I’m going to kill you in a few seconds I’ll make it easy for you. It’s Melanie Broke, your adopted daughter. ‘Happy Mother’s Day’” Quietly replying, “so this is a revenge thing, because I sent you off. Your trying to make me pay for past sins?” “Yes and no. If you would of found the birth certified it would of answered all your questions. But Momma never ever thought things through. Just like having a mistake behind daddy’s back. Isn’t it ironic that the same child you gave up for adoption happens to be the same child you adopted years later? Guess I learn from the best, mother like daughter.”

“How did you find me in Mexico?” “Oh so many questions. It must hurt not to hold all the cards. You see, you more or less came to me. You were on the same greyhound as I was. I had your recent newspaper clip, nice work. You really did a number on that lad.” While reminiscing about how she was able to track her mom down, Avril was able to maneuver herself out of the ropes. She started to wrestle her own daughter fours stories up. Taking it out to the outside stairs after a long struggle. A decade of terror was over, as Avril lost her grip and fell to her death. When police arrives Melanie was very disorderly. “Stop or we will shoot.” the police demanded, but she kept moving forward taking the wrath of a hail storm of bullets. She landed right on her side exposing a beat red birth mark on the small on her back identical to the one they found on her mothers back, laying inches away from her.

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