Chapter 124

“What is the deal with you two?” She asks, her smirk deepening.

“I mean, you’re engaged to this Daniel guy, but all day our conversation has been Kent Kent Kent.”

“Well,” I say, scoffing a little bit, “Daniel’s not really in control of the family and hasn’t been making a lot of decisions about my life – that’s all been Kent. Honestly, Daniel is really nice to me –”

“Really nice to you?” Janeen says, raising an eyebrow now, adding to her skeptical expression. “Honestly, the way you talk about Daniel, he’s just some nice little puppy you play with sometimes. The way you talk about Kent, though,” she laughs a little bit, shaking her head at me. “Are you sure he isn’t the

fiancé?”

“Ew, Janeen,” I say, arranging the features of my face into an expression of disgust that, if I’m being honest, I don’t actually feel. “He’s like…old.”

She shrugs. “Some of my older gentlemen are my best clients.”

“Well,” I say, tossing Heathcliff’s comb into its bin and facing her directly. “Kent is not my client. So, you can end that line of thinking right there.”

fonvord and smiling

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at me. “I can tell you like

stomping my foot like we’re four years old

putting an arm around my shoulders.

my mouth to protest further but she waves me off,

have to be getting back so that I can help dad with some stuff before work tonight.” She turns back to me then, looking me from head to foot. “You going to be all right, if I leave

far, I’ll probably make it a few more days at least. Do I

that’s part of the deal. Kent is going to let me see you on the regular, which I think is good. I miss my little sister. Any messages for

eyes again when I think of him. “Just tell him I love him?” I say,

here, Fay baby,” she whispers in my ear as she holds me tight. “The media has been saying a lot of

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think it’s getting bad–like some kind of

of it as best you can, okay?”

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