Watson by Kathi Barton (ebook reader txt) 📕

Also, she hated to admit it, but she thought she was putting on weight. She’d been a size four most all of her life. Even when she’d been fat with Watson, she’d managed to not put on any more than five pounds. Of course, the doctor was pissy about that, telling her that she’d hurt her child. Like she gave a shit about him. The only reason any of them stayed pregnant was because Holly, the cunt, had had a son. Not that anyone considered her to be a part of the family, but Eita said it would look good on them to not just have a child for their inheritance but to have a son. It had taken her five abortions before she’d gotten a son. Fuck, that had been the worst part, having to have sex with Wesley so much to make one. She shivered again like someone had walked over her grave.

“Probably Holly.”

Laughing at her own joke, she looked up to see a man standing there. While she had no idea who he was, she tried to make herself look better and thinner by sucking in her cheeks and throwing her shoulders back to make her breasts look good. For all the money she’d put out for them, or Wesley had, she wanted everyone to see how nice they were.

“Not on your life. I’m here to tell you, Christina Wilson, that you’ve been found guilty of five counts of murder in the first degree. Three counts of murder in the second degree, and—”

“What the fuck are you talking about? I’m getting out of here. And my name is Wilkerson, not Wilson. That name is meaningless to me.” He said she wasn’t, actually. “Oh yes, I am. I will be living in the big house. There wasn’t even a trial. You can’t convict someone without a trial.”

“The trial was conducted over the last three days. It ended an hour ago with the jury finding you all guilty of the same crimes. You weren’t there because, as the judge stated, you weren’t cooperating and were causing a ruckus, so you would have to learn your verdict this way. Since you and the other women wanted to be tried as one, then you all got the same sentencing. Each murder committed by you or any of the other women is counted against each of you. I know for a fact that you were told this would happen if you did things this way.” She said she wanted to change her mind. “It’s not going to work either. The paperwork has been filed, and now you only have to wait on your sentencing. In the meantime, you’ll be sent, with the others, to prison. A larger building than this one that won’t stand for the way you’ve treated the people that work here.”

“First of all, I’m not happy with this so-called verdict that you’ve given me. It’s a lie. I won’t have it.” The man smiled at her. “Secondly, the only place I’m going is home. Where my husband had better be fixing it back the way I wanted it before all this mess was put upon us. I mean, what did I do, really? Nothing that anyone else in my position wouldn’t do if they were a Wilkerson with all the money in the world. You go tell that judge to— Better yet, you tell him to get his ass down here and let me talk to him. I cannot believe he expects me to just be all right with this shit. Go and get him.”

“No.” She asked him what he’d said to her. “I said no. I know it’s not a word you might be familiar with, but I’m not going to do anything for you. As far as I’m concerned, you needed to be put in prison a long time ago. Now, I’ve told you, and you seem to understand what is happening. I’m going to tell the others—”

“I do not understand what is happening, you fucking moron. I want to know why no one is coming here to get me out of this fucking place. There is no way that a jury of my peers would have the balls to put me in a place so far from my home. However will I be able to go to my clubs and have lunch with the others? No, I don’t understand, and you’re not leaving here until you understand that I’m not in any way going anyplace that isn’t the Wilkerson Mansion. Do you fucking hear me?”

He walked away. Just walked away from her like she wasn’t still speaking to him. She wished now that she’d gotten his name. There was going to be hell to pay when she was free from here. Mother fucker. Who in their right mind would send her, Tina Wilkerson, off to prison for the lame assed things they were blaming her for?

She heard one of the other women screaming—Tina thought it was Christa. Now there was a person that deserved to go to prison. Killing Eita had been what had started all this. She just had to take out her gun and fire it when everyone knew that Eita had it all under control.

“The first thing I’m going to do when I get out of here is to make sure she’s no longer welcome around us. For a time, anyway. We’ll have a discussion. But since I’m married to the oldest son, I get to decide. Everyone knows the one in charge is the one the married to the oldest.” She thought about that for a moment and smiled. “New rules, bitches. Just wait and see.”

She was told she needed to get her things together about an hour later. Who really knew what time it was. There were no clocks that she could see. Nothing to tell her what time it was other than the shitty meals she was brought. Getting things gathered up, she was glad she didn’t