Chapter 157 Deserves Better—Part 2

• "Come on, pick up! Pick up!" Marybeth muttered as Benji's phone kept ringing.
• "Fuck!" she cussed when his voicemail lady eventually picked up. Not ready to throw in the towel yet, she tried him again, but when she got the same result, she sent him another text, telling him to confiscate all of Austin's guns and any item he could use as a weapon.
• She waited for his response, but it never came. And when her alarm clock went off, reminding her of her meeting in five minutes, trying to avert a disaster of epic proportions stopped being an option.