Stopped in his tracks, Monte froze with Caitie's corpse still laid across his shoulder. He began to turn slowly, with his eyes piercing the blackness of night and surveying the field. He rested the body on the hood of his car and went back to the trunk where he would retrieve a Mossberg 500 shotgun, he followed the faint cries until he came upon the tree which she hid behind and without hesitation pointed the pump action weapon to the sky and squeezed the trigger. The sound of the shot exploding through the barrel was almost deafening and she was forced to leap out like a frog.

"Monte! Stop!" She cried with tears in her eyes.

"Ruth?!" He yelled back in shock and lowered his weapon, "you followed me, why?"

Ruth laid at his feet as she took to the likeness of a leaf, shaking uncontrollably. Montgomery sighed, throwing the gun a good distance behind him and crouching to comfort her.

"Baby, it's okay, ssshhh" he whispered, stroking her hair.

After a few minutes, she calmed down, and gripped his shirt as she looked up at his face.

"What did you do, Monte?" She asked, sniffling.

"I.. I had to.." he began to say, "Cait, she wasn't going to stop and they'd come for you, Ruth."

"So what?! What do you think is gonna happen now after she disappears moments after coming to see me? They are coming for me regardless, babe."

"I know it's hard to understand, but you know the man I am. You won't be tied to any of this, I need you to believe me on that."

Suddenly, her frustration gave her the strength she needed to push him off her, and she screamed in his face as he fell on his ass.

"You killed that man, then you killed his lawyer, and now Caitie... and you just sit here telling me that I'm not to worry?! Believe you?! They're already onto you! For fuck's sake!"

Monte held out his hand as if he could shield her words that rained on him like bullets.

"Listen!" He pleaded, "it doesn't matter how close they are to catching me, by the end of the week I'll be nobody's problem, especially not yours, I'll be gone, and Cait is gone, their investigation will hit a dead end naturally."

Ruth had exerted the last of her energy and fell back on her buttocks as well, "so what now, huh?"

"Now, you let me finish what I came here to do, and we can go back to the cabin.. what's done is done, okay?"

"Do what you came to do." She conceded.

Monte picked himself up and walked back to finish the job, but as soon as he would pick up Cait, he heard the Mossberg slide cranked behind him.

"Ruth, do you know what you're doing?" He said calmly as she had the gun pointed to the back of his head. He could hear the gun rattling softly as her hands shook from the anxiety. She didn't answer, she couldn't, instead she cried to herself as she struggled to understand why she was doing this.

"Doc... listen, I know you're worried," he said in an effort to diffuse the situation.

"You're too calm for someone who could die right here, next to the corpse of the woman you let come between us, MONTE"

Monte chuckled, "I know you hated her, so watching me burn her body should be easy for you. Listen, I already sent her cell half way across the state, the cops will ping her location and go on a wild goose chase so you don't have to worry.. technically your house isn't the last place she was."

Ruth sighed as she dropped the gun.

"Furthermore," He continued, "I've made my peace with death, so I wouldn't resent you in the afterlife if you were the one to end me." He turned around finally and walked up to her, took her cheeks in the palm of his hands and kissed her lips softly, "Our week is almost over."

Without any further delay, he took up Caitie and laid her on the structure he built, dousing it with petrol.

"Wait!" Ruth interrupted him again, as he was about to strike the match.

"What now, Ruth?"

Walking up to the bon fire and grabbed the matches from him.

"You're right, I did fucking hate her." She said, as she struck a flame and sent Caitie's lifeless body up in smoke.

"Now we can go." She said.

The BMW and the Prius drove off inconspicuously, and the fire burned until very little human remains were left. The two arrived back at the cabin, exhausted.

"All that fighting made me hungry." Montgomery said to his therapist as they stepped through the door.

"We ate everything from today already," she answered, "but you can relax, I'll cook this time."

She took some Turkey from the well stocked fridge and had that prepared with mashed potatoes. They ate to their fill, and laid together in bed reflecting on their first day back at the cabin.

"What if they find her out here? What's left of her, anyway.." a concerned Ruth asked her lover.

"I took out all her teeth. They wouldn't be able to ID her even with the help of God."

"You really do have everything planned out, how do you do that?"

"Life teaches, I guess."

"Your life, anyway, you've got two days left on your bill sir, how can I counsel you?"

Monte smiled as he heard her ludicrous question, rolling over he reached between her thighs and gripped her firmly, she gasped in disbelief and pleasure.

"Monte, are you serious right now? We just burned a body."

"Yes... and then you cooked for me." He replied with a sly comment, clearly her anxiety had gone up in flames along with Caitie. He pulled off her underwear from beneath her nightgown and enjoyed seeing her sticky juices cling to her panties.

"You know," he said, "I saw something recently that said 'how many times will you try to be with the one you love?' ... and I thought of you."

Positioning himself between her legs, he stared at her naked soul through her eyes and teased her wetness with the head of his cock. Ruth gasped again and again, and when she was tired of the games, she held him by his throat and slid her body down to feel his length. With every thrust, she saw Cait's face in her mind and pictured her in hell. Ruth grinned, moaned, and squeezed his neck even harder. Monte, grabbing away her hands and locking them over her head, began to dive in as he pounded her sweet cunt fiercely. Mesmerized by the expressions on her face, he couldn't hold it for much longer, leaning back he held her leg upward and pressed it against his body. He was all the way inside her as they both came together, their bodies gyrating and vibrating to the chills sent down their spines.

"Oh fuck!" Ruth yelled, breaking off a nail from roughness of his back.

"Woo!" Monte yelled in return, falling backwards as he laid there trying to catch an escaped breath. The next thing he felt was the warmth of her mouth around what was left of his erection, with his dick still tender he nearly lost his mind, watching and feeling her suck away both of their juices. Monte wondered if her goal was to leave him crippled.

She laughed cynically as he became soft in her mouth, and laid on his chest.

"I really, love therapy." He confessed.

Laughing at his idiocracy, she released a sigh of contentment.

"Where are you gonna go, at the end of the week?"

Monte held her closer, and said, "it's better if you don't know, you might try to stop me."

"Or maybe I'll just know where to come find you every once in a while, I don't want to lose you, not really. Not again."

"So, how many times will you try to be with the one you love, Ruth?"

"As many times as my heart beats in this life." She answered poetically.

"Then just be with me, in the present, we still have time."

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