Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Chapter 398

Zoe and her friends couldn’t help but share a laugh at Lauren’s expense.

Lauren was darting around the room like a lost kite. Drunk customers shoved and pulled her around. Some perverted patrons even groped her. *

Her attempts at dodging the unwanted advances were met with reprimands.

That was better entertainment than any comedy.

“Hahaha! That retard! Why has she not changed from junior high at all? Did she stop growing by then?” Zoe laughed and pointed at the screen. “Betty, I’m dying to know. Where did you stash that stupid bear?”

“I hid it at…” Betty laughed and whispered something into Zoe’s ears.

Zoe laughed loudly. “What a brilliant idea! That dimwit won’t stand a chance of finding it anytime soon.”

Lauren desperately scoured the space beneath the tables and was kicked multiple times by the customers. She suffered bruises all over her body.

went blank at the funny looks of the strangers around her. Her breathing became labored with each passing

sudden, the lighting changed. Confetti materialized in mid-air and cascaded down. The erupted in cheers and danced the night away on the dance

on her search for

dizzy and numb from the collision, which prompted tears

was ready to run when the figure stood in

s-sorry!” she stammered.

“Laurie?”

beating like crazy. She covered her button nose and carefully lifted her gaze. She stared right into Landon’s tipsy and bottomless

this a dream? It’s

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was a noticeable change in his eyes. He wrapped one arm around her waist and gently placed the other on her nape to shield her from

care about her safety when they were

felt her heart drumming against her chest as she pressed a shaky

but in that very moment, she yearned for a brief respite after a night of feeling adrift in the crowd.

He was a decent man, but at the end of the day, he was still Zoe Harper’s