Chapter 4 - The Crocodile Tears
Suddenly, cutting violently through the incredibly thick, highly tense silence, the highly high-pitched, incredibly wailing sound of rapidly approaching police sirens echoed loudly and aggressively from down the quiet, highly affluent suburban street.
Incredibly bright, highly intense, and completely blinding flashing blue and red emergency lights began to rhythmically, aggressively dance across the highly expensive, perfectly painted living room walls.
The incredibly heavy, highly imposing, and deeply official police vehicles pulled highly aggressively and completely suddenly into the incredibly long, highly manicured, and sprawling circular driveway of our massive estate.
Outside the incredibly large, highly customized bay windows, deeply curious, highly nosy, and entirely shocked wealthy neighbors began cautiously, highly hesitantly stepping onto their pristine front porches to eagerly see what the massive commotion was entirely about.
But what deeply, incredibly thoroughly chilled me to the absolute, very deep core of my exhausted bones was my highly toxic mother-in-law’s highly instantaneous, deeply calculated reaction to the loud sirens.
She quickly, incredibly sharply glanced directly toward the large, bright window, her highly sociopathic, incredibly manipulative mind calculating incredibly fast to formulate a highly desperate, completely fake escape plan.
Within mere, incredibly brief seconds, the entirely genuine, deeply terrified, and highly absolute fear completely and flawlessly disappeared entirely from her aging, heavily Botoxed face.
In its exact, absolute place came a sudden, highly aggressive, and incredibly massive rush of incredibly loud, highly dramatic, and completely fake tears.
It was a highly perfectly timed, incredibly well-rehearsed, and entirely Oscar-worthy display of total, complete heartbreak and incredibly frail, highly highly pathetic physical vulnerability.
She aggressively, violently threw the steaming, incredibly hot iron directly onto the highly expensive imported granite countertop, completely disregarding the highly dangerous, completely permanent burn marks it would inevitably leave behind.
She violently, highly aggressively messed up her own incredibly perfectly sprayed, highly expensive blonde hair to actively look completely, utterly disheveled and heavily, recently physically traumatized.
She rushed incredibly frantically, highly dramatically toward the incredibly heavy, highly ornate front oak door, sobbing incredibly loudly and entirely hysterically to actively attract the immediate attention of the rapidly arriving police officers.
"Help me, please, somebody please help me!" she screamed completely at the absolute top of her highly theatrical, entirely fake lungs as two incredibly large, highly armed police officers burst completely through the grand entrance.
"My highly unstable, completely insane daughter-in-law has completely, entirely lost her psychotic mind and violently attacked me in my own son's home!"
She aggressively, highly dramatically pointed a violently shaking, incredibly manicured, and completely fake finger directly at my heavily battered, deeply bruised body still sitting helplessly on the hard marble floor.
"She is highly, entirely unstable and aggressively, violently attacked me like a wild animal when I simply, lovingly tried to gently help her with the basic, highly normal household chores!"
"Look at her, officers, she is completely, entirely deranged and poses a massive, highly incredibly dangerous, and absolute threat to that poor, completely innocent unborn baby currently in her womb!"
The two highly experienced, incredibly stern police officers immediately, highly cautiously placed their heavy hands entirely defensively on their loaded utility belts, actively, highly critically scanning the highly chaotic, entirely confusing scene.
They clearly, undeniably saw me sitting entirely half-naked on the incredibly cold floor, completely covered in incredibly dark, highly visible, and deeply disturbing purple and sickly yellow bruises.
They explicitly saw the incredibly tall, highly imposing, and entirely heavily dusted military soldier standing incredibly quietly in the middle of the kitchen holding a highly questionable, incredibly messy stack of scattered papers.
And they clearly saw the incredibly sobbing, highly frail-looking, and entirely hysterical older woman desperately, highly pathetically clinging to the wooden doorframe for supposed, completely fake physical and emotional support.
"Ma'am, please immediately step entirely back and completely calm down right this instant," the highly authoritative lead officer commanded Victoria incredibly firmly, deeply unimpressed by her loud hysterics.
He slowly, highly cautiously approached the massive kitchen, his highly trained, incredibly observant eyes darting aggressively back and forth entirely between Alejandro's stoic military presence and myself on the floor.
Victoria completely, utterly ignored his highly direct, completely official command and continued to aggressively, loudly weep, producing incredibly giant, highly fake crocodile tears that streamed perfectly, flawlessly down her heavily powdered, aging cheeks.
She was absolutely, incredibly determined to actively, highly manipulatively use her immense, deeply generational wealth and her highly established, entirely fake high-society status to completely manipulate the arriving authorities.
She truly, deeply, and incredibly arrogantly believed that her entirely fake, highly dramatic victim routine would completely, easily convince the supposedly simple-minded police officers that I was the truly violent, highly insane aggressor.
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She entirely, highly maliciously thought her impeccable, absolutely flawless acting skills would completely, entirely secure my highly immediate, deeply humiliating arrest and my absolute, permanent, and highly forced institutionalization.
But she had absolutely, completely no idea that I had been actively, highly secretly, and incredibly meticulously preparing for this exact, highly explosive, and completely defining moment for several long, agonizing months.
