Jennifer sighed in relief when Carla stopped the car abruptly at a look out vantage point of view. The car halted to a scratch a foot from the railing.
-“Let’s take a walk Jennifer, shall we?” Carla said in a deceptively velvety purr.
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-“Sure.” Jennifer was glad to exit the oppressive interior of the car.
She walked ahead of Carla a few feet, yet Carla matched her pace to lace her arm with Jennifer’s.
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-“Jenny, we need to air some things out in the open fresh air, with this amazing view around us. You see, I have built my business unfazed about stepping on other’s toes, using people to get ahead, and waking the like between the legal and the not so. My instincts have brought me this far, and I’m not stopping now…for anyone. Do you understand me Hon?
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Now, I want you to confess to me if what you told of the inside operations of Eden. I know it was you, admit it! The leak was an inside job, I was made aware of early this morning, and before the shit hits the fan, I need to know who you told, what you told, and with what you supported your claims.” Carla said with a frightful contained feral intensity.
Jennifer could see it in her eyes. Carla was deranged. No doubt that she’d tear her to pieces if she confessed.
-“Carla, I don’t know what you are talking about, really! It wasn’t me, whatever information was leaked.” Jennifer said while finding it extremely difficult to hold her gaze steady on Carla’s.
Carla launched at Jennifer with the swiftness and ferocity of a hungry tiger going for the kill. She slammed Jennifer against the railing, and then proceeded to choke her throat.
-“You stupid little cunt! Do you think someone as insignificant as you is going to bring me down, and topple all I have built with my bare hands, on my back, and bore forth like a child? This morning we tracked your computer activity, and access with your password into the network.
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This is my baby and you are not going to stand in my way.” Carla spit these words out through a red faced, contorted to an ugly grimace which obliterated any resemblance of beauty or sanity.
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Although of similar height and physique, Jennifer was no slouch. She had taken personal defense classes, and worked with resistance weights regularly. She clawed at Carla’s face and kicked her soundly on her stomach.
After the initial shock of pain, Carla attacked Jennifer with renewed violence.
Emitting a war cry, Carla leaped on Jennifer with such force, that they both toppled backwards over the railing to roll together in a death embrace.
Emitting a war cry, Carla leaped on Jennifer with such force, that they both toppled backwards over the railing to roll together in a death embrace.
Jennifer's guardian Angel must have been looking out for her, for she was able to grab and hold onto a thick vine, with mighty strength just as they were nearing the end of the slope and the deadly fall to the canyon bellow beckoned like a gaping hungry mouth.
Gravity forced Carla’s body down, as she slipped and held on to Jennifer’s right foot. Jennifer’s dress pumps were not fabricated for such adventures. Carla slipped into oblivion taking Jennifer’s shoe with her.
Although Jennifer was eventually applauded for blowing the lid off a scandal that rocked the elections and brought to light the ethical standards of the candidate in question, as well as denouncing the mind altering, subliminal manipulations of this type of business, it also made Jennifer a pariah in the corporate world. For nobody truly likes a snitch.
