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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tell you like him- and

my foot like

sis,” she says, coming and putting an arm around my shoulders. “Whatever you say.” She pulls me with her out of the stall.

open my mouth to protest further but she waves me off,

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 you

this far, I’ll probably make it a few more days at least. Do I get to see you again?”

deal. Kent is going to let me see you on the regular, which I

him I love him?” I say, sniffing and working to hold them back. “And that I’m

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

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bad–like some kind of war

it as best you can, okay?”

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