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kind of record.   “I’m gonna need to ask a favor,” she said
tightly.  “Call your attorney brother-in-law for me.  I think I’m about to
commit a double homicide.”
    “What?” Harmony balked
loudly, her friendly voice suddenly blaring in Melody’s ear.
    “Let’s just say that my
ex-fiancé is sitting in his car across the street from my house, watching me. 
And that mystery man from this morning?  He’s sitting inside my house on
my freaking couch getting potato chip crumbs all over the place!  With a
freaking DOG, Harmony!” Melody stated, her voice shrill as she neared hysteria.
    “Where are you?”
Harmony asked sharply, her voice growing worried.
    “In my car,” Melody
replied, her chest tightening as her eyes volleyed from one intruder to the
other, a killing rage slowly descending over her.
    “Stay there,” her
friend ordered sternly.  “Do not move.  I’m calling the Sheriff on my landline
now.  Zeke will have you some help out there, lickity split, honey.  You’ll
have a police officer there before you know it.”
    “I don’t want the cops
for this, but I will need an alibi!  Because I’m gonna kill somebody,”
Melody yelled, her anger like a pressure cooker inside her head.  She was going
to blow sky high any moment now, she thought as she watched her ex slowly climb
out of his car and begin walking toward her.  Taking a deep breath, Melody
could tell by the set of Bradley’s classically handsome face that he wasn’t
going to go away easily.  “Tell Zeke to hurry, Harmony, because I can’t promise
I won’t kill Bradley Weller in the next ten minutes.  And, for the record, I
was serious about an attorney.  I think I’ll need one at my bail hearing,” she
growled before disconnecting the phone, pulling the small concealed handgun she
carried out of her purse, and shoving open her car door.  Climbing from behind
the wheel to face her most current nemesis, Melody shook her head at him.
    “You need to stop right
where you are, Bradley,” Melody warned as she faced her former fiancé.  “I
don’t know why you’re here, and I don’t care,” she continued to state, still
standing behind her open car door as she stared furiously at her former lover. 
“You just need to turn around and leave the way you came.  Now.”
    Her urge to growl only
increased when she saw that infuriating placating smile begin to curl her ex-fiancé’s
lips upward.  There went her nap, she thought bitterly as the man took another
step toward her.  She supposed the other uninvited interloper inside her home would
have to wait while she got rid of her first nuisance.    
    As talented as she was
with her gun, she unfortunately doubted she could kill two men at the same
time, although she wasn’t necessarily averse to trying.

Chapter
Four: Two Stalkers, One Bullet
     
    “You just need to turn
around and leave the way you came. Now.”  Her order was clear, concise, and
non-negotiable, and yet, Bradley Weller still stood there in front of her, only
the metal door of her car separating them.
    “Baby, just give me a
chance…” Bradley began, his eyes darkening earnestly as he met her cold gaze. 
    “No.”
    “What?” he asked, his
angular jaw dropping at the sharpness in her tone.  Melody rarely denied him
anything, and his expression conveyed his surprise that she was denying him
now.  “Darling, give me a moment to…”
    “I. Said. No.  I advise
you to leave now before the police arrive and I won’t press charges for
harassment, Brad.  Choose to stay and you do so at your peril.  I’m sure your
parents will love it when you call them to make bail,” she noted blandly,
though her eyes glittered dangerously.
    “What?  You can’t be
serious,” Brad balked, shaking his head at the woman before him.  “Melody, this
isn’t you.  This isn’t the way you are.  You’re a kind, loving woman that
forgives easily.   I know our current situation is all my fault,