Chapter 37

My feet hit the pavement with each step I took. I had just walked out of the hotel and was heading to the parking area. From a small distance, I could see the car parked. Sterling and Samuel had their backs against it as they talked.

They did not notice me and I did not call for their attention either. I just kept walking in their direction. My heart was still racing a bit from what my mother said to me about Summer or her threatening Samuel; all for the sake of her grand plan.

Did I do it? Did I do what I was thinking? And what was I even thinking? Oh yeah, I wanted to choke the life out of my mom. I wanted to smother her. I wanted to kill her right there in the hotel suite.

And maybe then later stage it as a suicide? How hard could that be? I had watched a lot of crime shows, it could not be that hard, could it? And even if it was, I had money and some power.

I was a Smith. I could have gotten someone to do it. But I didn’t. I did not lay a finger on her. I left her drunk behind