She Married My Stolen Credit Chapter 07
Those words snapped Piper out of it.
A wild look lit up her eyes.
She tore free from the bodyguards and threw herself toward me, trying to pull my body into her arms.
“Did you hear that, Marco? We found a kidney! You’re gonna be okay! Let’s do the surgery. Once it’s over, you’ll be fine!”
She tried to lift me off the bed, completely out of control, nearly ripping out the wires still attached to my body.
Then-
Smack!
The slap cracked through the room.
“Piper! Use your damn brain for once!”
Walter had put everything he had into that slap.
“He’s dead! Look at him!”
“You killed him! You and that monster drove him to his death!”
“Don’t stand there pretending you ever cared.”
“It’s too late.”
Walter slammed his cane against the floor, grief pouring out with every word.
The slap had knocked Piper’s head to the side. A bright handprint spread across her cheek.
She held her face, staring blankly at Walter before looking back at my lifeless body.
The madness in her eyes slowly fell apart.
All that was left was despair.
“No… it wasn’t me… It was Elliot. He told me-”
“And you’re still blaming someone else?”
shook with rage, lifting his cane again.
arlson, don’t! Don’t hit Piper!” Elliot rushed over, tears streaming down his face as he threw himself in of her.
It wasn’t Piper’s fault! Marco’s body was already failing! He was-
“You’ve got some nerve!”
Walter’s cane crashed down on Elliot.
“If it weren’t for you, you lying, heartless fraud, would Marco have ended up like this?”
“My wonderful grandson in law… my unborn great–grandchild… they’d both still be alive!”
“What do you mean?”
Piper snapped her head up.
“I lost the baby… What does that have to do with Elliot?”
The color drained from Elliot’s face.
“Mr. Carlson… wh–what are you talking about? How could riper losing the baby have anything to do with me? Marco lied to you. That’s it–he lied!”
Walter pressed his lips tight and turned away in disgust.
It was too sick. Too cruel.
Even he couldn’t say it out loud.
But Piper looked from Walter to Elliot’s panicked face.
Then every detail she’d ignored came rushing back.
Elliot hinting Marco was cheating.
Elliot pushing her to secretly drug him.
Even ending the pregnancy had been his idea.
Suspicion turned to rage.
She lunged at Elliot and wrapped both hands around his throat, eyes wild.
“What else are you hiding from me? Talk! Tell me everything!”
Elliot clawed at her arms, gasping for air.
Tears streamed down his face, but he kept his mouth shut.
Piper completely snapped.
She dragged him out like a dead dog, her voice raw with rage.
“You won’t talk? Fine. I’ve got plenty of ways to make you.
“Everything Marco suffered… you’re gonna suffer a hundred times worse.
The second she dragged him away, Elliot finally broke.
“Piper! Don’t! Mr. Carlson! Help me!”
ter closed his eyes.
fter a long silence, he raised a hand, signaling someone to follow.
In the dark basement-
Elliot was thrown onto the cold concrete floor.
Piper walked toward him one slow step at a time.
Her shadow swallowed him whole.
Her eyes held nothing but madness.
“Talk.
“What else have you been hiding from me?”
