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.”

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me. “I can tell you like him- and he’s

upset and stomping my foot like we’re four

she says, coming and putting an arm around my shoulders. “Whatever

further but she waves me

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

few more days at least. Do I get to

a smile. “Yeah, 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, sniffing and working to hold them back. “And that I’m okay?”

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

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as best you

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