Her sister looked around. “This place wouldn’t be half bad if you got rid of the animal buildings and painted the house.”

“I’ll think about it. Was there anything else?”

Her sister crossed her arms over her chest and smiled smugly. She pretended to look around. “Where’s that mangy mut of yours?”

Mara studied her sister and knew without a doubt her sister had something to do with killing Tiny.

“Aren’t you afraid he’ll come after you?” Mara asked.

There was no fear on her sister’s face, but she had been terrified of him a few days ago.

“No. I got over my fear of him.”

Mara could feel a huge wave of fury unlike she’d ever known before. She had never felt violent about anything in her life, but at that moment, she wanted to rip her sister’s head off.

“You killed him, didn’t you?”

Her sister had a fake look of surprise on her face.

“Mwaw?” Judith said and tapped her chest.

Mara was barely holding it together, but she wanted her sister to say it.

“What reason would you have to kill an animal?”

The forced shock came down and showed her sister’s mouth twisting into a snarl. “Because that damn mutt was between me and my house.”

Mara saw red, screamed, and lunged at Judith, slamming her to the ground. Mara sat on top of her and railed at her.

“You fucking bitch, whore!” Mara kept screaming as she punched her sister as hard as possible. “You’re nothing to me. If you come near me again., I’ll fucking kill you.”

“Oh, hell,” she heard behind her, but it didn’t stop her from fighting.

She was suddenly lifted off her sister. She struggled against the hold because she wanted to go at her sister again.

“Enough,” Rafael said.

“No. She killed my dog. I want to hurt her so much.”

“I understand that. You did a pretty good job of it. Her face is all swollen and bloody. I think you broke her nose.”

“It doesn’t matter. I want to take her head off. I want to hurt her as much as I am now. She said she killed tiny becausehe was between her and her house.”

Rafael turned Mara to the side and gave her a hard smack on her ass. That’s all it took to settle her down and relax against him.

“That’s a good girl. I want you to go into the house,” he said.

She shook her head and tried to pull away from him to get to her again. “No! Please, just a little bit longer.”

Rafael shook his head and pointed to the house. “Now.”

She sneered at her sister. “You come near me or my house, I will fuck you up. You are no longer my sister. You are dead to me.”

Mara turned and walked into the house and up to the bathroom. She stripped and then jumped into the shower. She lifted her face up to the water and let it wash away the tears.

Chapter Thirteen

Rafael reached down and yanked the woman up by her arm.