The Stalked Assistant (Chapter-51)

My father had called the police never taking his gun off of Joey as my mom ran up on him and bent over making my daddy press the gun harder into his skin as my mother grabbed Joey's face with one hand and slapped him over and over with the other screaming her lungs out.

"You god damn sick mother fucker! You tr-tried to hurt my baby-" she wails off and slaps him again but thankfully Amanda comes up behind her and wraps her arms tightly around my mother pulling her backwards and my father sends her a grateful look.

"It's okay. Izzy Is okay. Calm down." I hear Amanda whispering to my mom, and I thank the lord above for my best friend.

The police show up and at first the was shocked to see my father aiming his shot gun at Joey but as soon as he seen them he quickly took it off and took a step back.

Joey is now in handcuffs in the back of the cop car crying, yes, you heard me correctly, the sick bastard who has scared me for months is now crying like a damn baby.

Good.

Let him cry.

Mr. Mike came over and asked for my statement.

"His real name is Joey, I'm not sure of his last name. He was the office manager for my apartment building in New York but there he was going by the name Philip West. He told me that he hacked into my phone and was able to hear and see what I was doing, that's how he knew what was going on everywhere that I was." I said as Ryder kept his arms around me.

Ryder hasn't let me go, not when my mother hugged me, not when Amanda hugged me and not even when my father hugged me and for once my dad kept his mouth shut and tried to hug me the best way that he could with Ryder's arms wrapped tight around me.

"How did he get to you?" Mr. Mike asked and I feel all eyes turning towards me and Ryder's arms stiffen up around me.

Fuck.

They all going to be pissed.

"I well, I got tired of it. I knew Joey was getting more and more dangerous and I wanted to stop it." I calmly explained.

"You what?" Ryder, growls.

"I couldn't sleep. I knew unknown was out there, I just wanted it all to go away and I was hoping I could at least find out who was doing this to me-" I whisper out but quickly shut my mouth when I see the look on Ryder's face.

"What the fuck, Izzy!" My father thundered out, as he was holding onto my mother. "You could have been killed! I heard Rocket but I just thought he was hurting! I came in here to check on him because I knew you would give me shit if I didn't, but God damn seeing you on the ground like that about gave me a heart attack! And you're saying you walked out of that house. Do you know what losing you would have done to your momma and I?"

"I can't believe you did that, baby. I understand what you wanted to do but you could have been killed. The first gun shot woke me up and I noticed you wasn't in bed and I took off running to find you but fuck what if your father and I were both late. You would be dead! I love you! You can't do that again, fucking promise me!" Ryder growls while softly pulling back from me, grabbing my face and forcing me to look at him. "Promise me." 

"I won't, okay, I promise I was just scared he would try to hurt one of yall next, I had to d-do something!" I scream out feeling their rage, but also feeling all my emotions crashing inside of me.

I know what I did.

I know what could have happened but to save them I was prepared to do whatever it took.

"Stop yall! Izzy has been through enough tonight. She gets it." Amanda says her voice turns hard, and I know she is pissed off herself. She turns to my father " I know you're pissed" and she turns to Ryder " I know you're pissed off too! Fuck me and Rachel didn't know what the fuck was going on and we were both frantic trying to find you all and making sure Izzy was okay! We were all scared and we are all pissed that she did what she did but it's over. She is okay and that mother fucker will rot in prison but enough for tonight!" She finishes tossing her arms around her hand, and I know I put my best friend through the ringer tonight.

"Amanda is right. Enough. Let's get inside and let Izzy rest." My mother's warm voice cuts through us all, and we all start to walk slowly towards the house.

Once we are inside, everyone is sitting in the living room around me staring up at me and if I thought they weren't mad anymore, I was wrong.

"I'm sorry, okay? I'm sorry. I know it was stupid of me. I know I could have died but I needed to do something!" I wailed out, throwing my hands into my face and taking several deep breaths. 

I turned to my father and looked him dead in the eyes. "You think I could have lived with myself if something happened to you? You're my daddy. I love you! All those memories we have together.. Everything that we did together would have just been memories if Joey would have killed you!"

I turn to my mother and stare her down and I see her lips quiver a bit as she looks back at me. "You're my mom. The best momma I could have ever asked for. I never want to lose you! I love you" 

I turned and looked at Amanda and I saw a slow smile forming on her lips. "You're my best friend. My bestie. I came into your life looking for a job but we got attached from the beginning you have been here for me dealing with Joey's shit even though you didn't know the full story. My parents, yeah, I know they will always stick with me, but you just started being friends and you stayed. You think I could have lived a happy life knowing he killed you because of me? No."

And lastly I turned towards Ryder seeing him clenching his jaw tight but his eyes looking at me with adoration. "And you. My boyfriend. My lover. My baby. My man. You're everything to me Ryder. Everything. I fell in love with you so fast it was crazy but nothing in my life has ever felt so right. I want everything with you. I want marriage and I even want kids someday, I wanted it all. I wanted to see where we would go in life. You think I could have ever been happy like this again without you here with me? If Joey would have killed you because of me, Ryder.. It would have destroyed me."

I slowly stand up and face all three of them holding my hand out as Ryder and My father tried to speak.

"I did what I did, but I did it for you all. I did it for the love I had for yall. I was willing to die for yall if that's what it took and yall may not want to hear that but it's true. I would never have been able to live with myself if one of you was killed because of me. So yall can be pissed off yall can hate what I did but none of you can sit here and tell you yall wouldn't have done the same. Now I'm going to take a warm bath and relax. I fucking deserve it." I tell them before walking away, leaving them all in silence.