A Truly Scary Woman

A month had passed as you and Courtney enjoyed your new sleeping arrangements. You both had to adjust a little at first. She got up a little later and you got up a little earlier, but it was worth it because she was sleeping soundly clutching you every night, and you were forging closer bonds.

You were leaving work with Courtney when your friends invited you out for some drinks. You asked if they would mind if she came along. "So long as she picks up a few rounds" was there response which earned an angry face emoji from you, but a giggle from her. She was in, and you and her went to your usual haunt. It wasn't a dive by any means, the place had a modicum of cleanliness, nothing looked dingy or decrepit, and it was in a fairly decent part of town. However, it was way outside of the usual places a woman like Courtney would visit. That said no one would recognize her now as she had prepared for an invite out with your friends after the pool party. She had revealed to you a well thought out costume for a disguise that she had stashed in the trunk. Now if anyone looked at her they'd see her with a long side braided brown hair, mousey looking glasses, and a relatively cheep looking work polo and khakis. She was still gorgeous, there was no disguising that, and she'd probably still get drinks sent to her by guys looking to snag a beauty for the evening. However, no one would recognize her as Courtney Stone as the disguise, the bar lighting, and the din of the bar would make sure no one looked at her under a microscope to tell.

"Okay but for real what is that sauce?" Kim asked as Courtney spread your sauce across her hamburger. They had just gotten their bar food and Courtney went big with a mega burger. She really seemed to get a kick out of slumming it with your friends, and that made you happy, but her dependency became very problematic quickly as she pulled out the small container you had filled with your cum earlier. When the group questioned her about it she said it was a rare and expensive sauce from Europe. This placated Charlie and Wally, but Kim was always the most nosy of your group.

"It's a rare truffle sauce it costs $20,000 an ounce. I'd be happy to give it to anyone who wants a taste?"

"Wow really!" Wally piped up.

"Sure if you can pay me back for it!" That effectively shut up everyone, about trying it anyway.

"Er, I'm no gourmet, but why the hell would you put something so valuable over something like a $15 Burger? I just don't think most people would do that." Charlie piped in with an actually really valid question.

"Simply because I can, I'm rich enough to pour $80,000 on a $15 Hamburger and be happy about it." For the short time Courtney had known your friends she never tried to throw her money in their faces, so when she was doing it now suddenly, Charlie knew he should just back off. With a nod of understanding he let the topic go, which was a relief to you.

Everyone ate, drank, chatted, and laughed as the evening turned into late night. Courtney had been meticulous when eating to make sure that none of the special sauce was left. You were both playing with fire by her even using that on food at a restaurant as an errant drop going from a servers hand into their mouth was a real possibility. However, you wanted to get Courtney to open up, and she was bonding with you and your friends really well, so it was worth the risk.

"Phew! Well I still gotta work tomorrow, so I'm taping out guys!" Courtney said after everyone had had enough beers to get a bit tipsy.

"WHAT! IT'S A FRIDAY!" Charlie shouted too loudly even for a bar.

"Yeah! You're really working on a Saturday?! You know who does that? Crazy people that's who!" Kimberly said.

"Just spend sometime with your boyfriend for god's sake!" Wally blurted out.

"Wha-We aren't like that!" Courtney said, once again defiant on slapping that label on the both of you.

"Well if it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it must be a duck." Charlie interjected.

"Guys it's fine, really. I'm cool taking things slow." You finally interject.

"Slow is one thing, but this is glacial for the situation you're in. I mean you sleep in the same bed now, and let me tell you she obviously likes you." Kim says as she casts a side eye at Courtney.

"I-it's not like I don't like him. I'm just not ready for that yet." Courtney interjected.

"Guys really, I like Courtney. I've made that clear, but when she's ready to accept me too, I'll be there." You say to your friends with a reassuring smile.

"Well, okay, but don't let us catch you breaking our boys heart!" Charlie said to Courtney.

"Cause your money won't save you!" Kim finished the thought.

"Duly noted." She said with a soft smile.

"Come on let's get out of here already, you busy bodies sure can ruin a mood." You say as your friends stick their tongues out at you in response.

Fortunately, most modern cars are self driving, so no need to wait for an Uber after drinking too much. You were heading out holding Courtney by the hand. You were both a little tipsy so it was more to keep each other's balance than anything romantic. However, you were still wobbly and as you stumbled towards the door your body had the unfortunate displeasure of making contact with a hulking man's drink. It was knocked from his hand in an instant and spilled all over him.

"HEY!" The man shouted. He must have been 6'8" and was all muscle. You assumed just by looking at him he spends his free time at the gym and probably worked a labor job. He was terrifying to look at.

"Oh, um I'm really sorry. Let me grab something to wipe that off." You try to be cordial but you're too inebriated to be as charming as you'd like.

"Let me get you another drink too!" Courtney interjects standing between you, who had walked over to the bar, and the man.

"Stay out of this babe." He said as he shoved her aside.

"Ah, hey!!" She protested as she stumbled over herself and fell hard on the ground.

"Courtney!" You shout when you notice her fall, but before you can go over to help her the man grabs you. He physically lifts you into the air, takes a few large strides, and hurls you out of the doorway. You take a tumble and your skin gets scuffed up by the pavement.

"GUH!" Is all you can manage before the man is over you.

"This is a company shirt motherfucker! You think a couple of napkins and a sorry is gonna cover that! They're gonna take the cleaning cost out of my pay, MY PAY!" He shouts before you get clocked right in the face. He was wearing a red polo with a patch that read Hermes Cable Company stitched in.

"ARGH!" Blood erupts from your nose as another swing crashes across you face. This man was the type who was always looking for a fight, and he wasn't going to show any mercy to you.

"STOP IT!!!!!!!!" Courtney yelled having just exited the bar. Again she fell to the ground when his two buddies knocked her aside.

"I'll make you pay for this you son of a bitch!" She shouted at the man.

"Hahaha! Your girl's got guts asshole, maybe I'll fuck her brains out after I beat yours out of your head!" He yelled as he slammed his fist into your face yet again.

*Crash* *Shatter*

""ARG"" His two friends doubled over in pain as two bottles came flying through the doorway and into their necks. They fell over as shards of glass embedded themselves into their skin. Before anyone had time to react to this development Charlie and Kim came barreling out of the bar and quickly shoved the man off balance so he fell off of you. Wally who was too weak to join in the shoving effort help you to your feet, and you quickly did the same for Courtney.

"Go! We'll get out of here after you guys are safe!" Charlie called back to you while standing defensively between you both and the man.

You both stumble off to her car in the chaos and set the car to drive you both to her house.

"THAT GOD DAMN SON OF A BITCH WILL PAY!" Courtney screamed as she threw open the door to the house. It was late enough in the night that everyone from the staff was gone except the security outside. Courtney was continuing from where she left off in the car. She had spent the entire time fuming and screaming about the man that beat you. It simultaneously made you happy that she'd be this pissed off on your behalf, but you were also annoyed after like 10 minutes of hearing her rant.

"Calm down Court." You said after you finally got a word in.

"Why should I calm down, and why aren't you as mad! You got beat the worse!"

"Well it isn't my first time getting my ass kicked at a bar, haha." You laugh it off, but Courtney looks ready to kill.

"That son of a bitch will pay!"

"Don't worry about it, let's just get cleaned off and go to bed. We'll be cooled off in the morning."

"Yeah, yeah fine." She said as she huffed off to the bathroom to wash off.

One month later and you had stored away the memories of that night, no longer bothered by the asshole who laid the smackdown on you. These things happen, and you can't get all bent out of shape over every asshole you meet. You had almost completely put it behind you, but something was bringing it back to your mind today. You couldn't quite place it, and then it hits you. You shift through a few documents that you had to review the other day, and there it is the acquisition of Hermes Cable Company by GT. When it came across your desk that GT had acquired it you had thought it was strange Hermes Cable was a very small scale operation selling fiber optic cables, but their reach was only within this state. Such a small scale operation was hardly worth the time of GT, and offered very little benefits to acquiring it. It was now a few days later and as you re-reviewed the document you finally recognized why Hermes Cable sounded familiar.

"THE DUDE FROM THE BAR!" You stood up with a start as you realized the connection, but you quickly sat back down in embarrassment as you realize you're still in an office with other people. You needed to know if what you fear is actually the case and you begin to shift through employee files. You can only do it in your down time at work and you want to keep this a secret, especially from Courtney, so it takes you about two weeks to find a picture and name of the man from the bar. His name was Quinn Johnson, and as you'd feared, he had been let go by Hermes Cable three days after GT acquired it. You get to work pulling his information and tell Courtney you'll be heading home early because you weren't feeling well.

You pull up to a shabby house on the outskirts of town. It wasn't a hovel, but it wasn't nice either. It was the house of someone who just barely got by with what they made. You're nervous about what you'll find, and even more unsure about what you're even going to do here. However, you had to meet him and find out his side of the story before you confronted Courtney.

*Knock Knock Knock*

You rap on the door a few times before you hear footsteps. The door opens and a haggard woman with blond hair probably a little older than you greats you.

"I'm not interested in whatever you have to sell, or preach, or want me to vote for okay?" She says to you aggressively.

"No ma'am, I'm sorry to interrupt, but I'm here to see Quinn. Is he in?"

"Oh, that sorry excuse for a man, I kicked his ass out yesterday. The bastard was only good for his muscles, but the ass couldn't hold a job to save his life. God that's what I get for marrying a man just because he could crack a walnut with his bicep flex. Anyway, I finally told him I was done and to beat it. I don't care where he is as long as he shows up when it's time to sign the divorce papers."

"Oh, I see. Do you know where I can find him?"

"Not really, but maybe he went crawling home to his mommy. If you really need to see him, and I do think you should consider keeping better company, I can tell you the address."

"That would be helpful thank you."

"You know, you're a very polite man. How did you get to know my soon to be ex-husband. He knew very few good people."

"Oh, I didn't know him well at all, I'm just investigating something."

"Wait, you're a cop? What'd that dumbass do now?"

"No, no I'm not a cop."

"So a private eye or something?"

"Sure, something like that."

"Well, even if you were an assassin I wouldn't care at this point. Pull out your phone I'll give you the address." She lists off an address and you make a note of it in your phone and you are off once again.

You are going over one of the bridges that lead out of town when you notice something odd. There is a man on the bridge, and he looks like he plans to end it. As you get closer to the man you notice his build matches that of Quinn.

"Oh, fuck!" You shout as you realize it very well could be Quinn as you pulled over to where he was standing on the edge of the bridge.

"Quinn!" You shout out to the man on the bridge. The man almost jumps off in shock as he wasn't expecting anyone to call his name.

"Huh, who the hell are you!" He shouts to you.

"Why don't you step over to this side of the road, and we'll talk about it."

"What the hell is there to talk about, I have no future. I lost my job, again and this time my wife kicked me out for good. I ain't doing this anymore!"

"Come over to this side, I don't think you got fired for the reason you think." He turns to you and his eyes widen.

"I know you! I know I know you! You're the guy from the bar! Where you going to tell me that it was that bitch Courtney Stone that was hanging off your arm that night!" This time it was your turn to be surprised by him.

"How do you know that!" You shout.

"Who do you think fired me! She made it a point to make sure I knew who was ruining my life! That woman owns everything her reach is terrifying! I tried to get another job, but I was blacklisted even from shit no one wants to do! Even under the table shit was being blocked off from me! Then the bank that I had a good relationship with and understood my situation decided to force me to make my mortgage payment even though they knew I couldn't make a payment yet! When I went to plead my case and buy more time they told me they had been bought out, and do you know who did that! Courtney that's who!"

"If that's the case let me talk to her. I'll talk her down from this." You beg for him to step away from the edge. You thought he was a dick for beating you, but this went way further than what he deserved.

"No, I'm done. You tell her she got what she wanted, she won! Tell her that, and ask for her to leave my family alone! My wife and two kids don't deserve to pay for my mistake, they're close to losing the roof over their head because of this! Please just let my family live in peace without me, you promise me that!"

"Okay I promise, but you should be with them!"

"You're a good man to go this far for me! If you were smart you'd stay away from Courtney! Oh, and for what it's worth, I'm sorry I did that to you back at the bar! In the next life, let's share a drink." And with that he stepped forward, and it was over.

"NO!" You shouted as you reached out futilely. You had just seen how truly terrifying of a woman Courtney could be, but you were going to walk right into the lion's den. You needed to confront her.

You arrived back at her place clearly distraught. You were shaking as you opened the door you had seen her car parked in the garage, so you knew the confrontation was imminent.

"Oh, Luke you look awful and you're shaking. You said you weren't feeling good and I was worried so I came back home too. Then you weren't here, and you weren't answering my calls or texts, and now you look like death. I'm really worried! Luke, what's wrong? Did you have to go to the hospital?"

"Did you do it?" You near whisper at her.

"What?"

"DID YOU DO THAT TO QUINN! THE GUY FROM THE BAR!"

"How do you know what his name was?" Courtney looks at you with concern.

"I met him today, as he step off a bridge. He had some things to say about you though. Seems you knew who he was way before me."

"Oh, oh did he?"

"Yeah, he did. Did you do that Courtney! Did you drive a guy to take his life!?"

"Well... come on let's not talk about that right now."

"ANSWER ME! A MAN JUMPED OFF A BRIDGE IN FRONT OF MY FACE COURTNEY!"

"Yes! I did it! Are you happy?!"

"WHY!"

"BECAUSE HE OPPOSED ME! When people get in my why I get them out of it by whatever means necessary." All you can do is stare in shock. You knew she was powerful and smart enough to be capable of this, but the Courtney you knew couldn't have done this.

"I-I just don't understand. How could you do this, did you think it'd make me happy to have this happen?"

"You think this is about you? No he defied me, ME! I made it clear not to fuck around with me at the bar and he humiliated me along with his goons."

"You didn't!" You interject.

"I did. They lasted less than Quinn did."

"Courtney, you're a monster." You say to her as your whole body trembles. The woman you were so fond of was just an illusion it seemed. Courtney was not someone you should have ever gotten involved with.

"Fuck you! Might makes right in this world. I learned that the hard way. You don't know me Luke."

"No I don't. I wanted to, I tried, but you always kept me at arms length. Now I know why. I'm leaving Courtney. I will cooperate with you in regards to our arrangement. We'll get Katia involved and she'll figure out how to ween you off or synthesis a fake version that'll fix you. I don't want to be chained up in a dungeon by you after all, but I'm done with you. Goodbye Courtney." You say as you turn away and go to make arrangements to move out your things and find a place to stay.

"Haaaa, you really fucked this huh boss?" A little bit after you had left, Courtney was startled by her employee suddenly speaking up.

"Stacy, what did you hear?"

"I heard it all after I came back for my phone. It fell out of my purse as I left, sorry."

"You know I could destroy you for what you know."

"I know."

"If you aim to blackmail me, I'll bury you before you have the chance."

"I know that too, so it's a good thing I'm not going to blackmail you."

"Then why stick your neck out like this?"

"Because you did do all this for Luke, didn't you?" Courtney jumps a little at Stacy's accusation.

"I don't know what you mean?"

"Fuck you, yes you do. The day after Luke got his ass kicked was the angriest I'd ever seen you. Of course you'd be the most upset about that, you love Luke after all."

"I don't. No way."

"You do and you know it. Damnit, what did you do boss! You did this just to sabotage what was going on between you and Luke, didn't you! You knew he'd never be happy finding out that this happen because of him! Why, did you do all this really? Why?"

"Because, because... You know what I don't need to answer you. Go home Stacy, good night!" Courtney excuses herself from room and makes her way to her bedroom. Deep down she regretted everything and involuntarily begins to weep.

"Because I was scared." She says to the empty room. Stacy had her pegged, and she knew that she needed to fix this as best she could.

If she could.

Authors Note: I had really bad writers block for this story and this was the best idea I had. Sorry that it is a pretty dark chapter but I wanted to add a bit of tension and drama to the story, and this certainly accomplished that. Not in love with this chapter honestly, but I hope it leads to better ideas in the future.