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Eddie's Death: A Short Story

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It’s the middle of the night in Las Vegas, inside a quiet peaceful three-bedroom home that Vanessa shares with her girlfriend Elena, Elena’s brother De’Aza, and her ex-boyfriend Eddie Diaz. Vanessa is in the bathroom taking a nice warm steamy shower trying to wash away the hurt and confusion that’s all covered up inside of her light skinned curvy naked body. She is hurt due to the fact that she and Eddie are no longer together anymore as a result of his barbaric gambling problem that caused them both to lose everything that they worked so hard for. When he ran out of money, he had taken some of Vanessa’s expensive jewelry to gamble it to see if he can come up victorious and win back all of the money that he had lost but still ended up losing …show more content…

The intruder very carefully walks inside with the door halfway open with just enough room for him to squeeze his two hundred and forty-pound figure through. As he discreetly walks closer towards Eddie his adrenaline starts kicking in overdrive. The intruder pauses as hears Eddie breathing heavily in his sleep. Without wasting another moment with his gun pointed down at him he reaches over Eddie and grabs a pillow from off of the bed that lays on the side of his head careful not to wake him. Now is the moment of no return. Steadily with precision he holds it up over his face with his left hand and points the silencer into the pillow with his right. With no hesitation he pulls the trigger twice sending two shots through the pillow right into Eddie’s skull splattering brains all over the linen killing him …show more content…

Just as fast as he entered the intruder turns around and begins to exit out of the room. The sound of running water from the shower has shut off, so quickly he shuts Eddie’s bedroom door and without making a single sound he rushes past the front of the bathroom door. Just as he heads for the stairs, Vanessa comes strutting out of the bathroom flaunting her shoulder length curly black hair and wearing a soft comfy white robe. He sees her coming and in a split second he ducks around the corner just as she walks through the dark hall following her own shadow heading to the bedroom. She almost sees him but missed him only by just tenths of a second. The unknown man is standing against the stairway wall with his gun pointed in the pathway of the stairs hoping that Vanessa doesn’t come towards him. He does not want to shoot her but if he has too… Thankfully, instead of coming towards the stairs she turns the corner and goes straight into the room where Elena is. After ensuring that Vanessa closes their bedroom door, the intruder walks the rest of the way down the stairs and leaves straight out the front door the same way in which he

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