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She considered hiure out how to steal back his precious chicken tenders "Why would you have your aunt pretend she’s the landlord?"

"Because I hate dealing with tenants," he said, switching the pizza to one hand and swiping out with the other to grab the small box away from her She simply moved it back and out of his reach

"Well," she said, sighing, "then I guess you’re the one I should infor to have toat the box in her hands If she tried to leave with his chicken tenders so help hiiveher hands out expectantly

"No You give me backin hier, the eht, or just the bullshit in general, but he said soretted before the last syllable left his mouth

"It’s not like you need it"

Chapter 3

Zoe felt her face burn and her eyes water as his words hit ho horrified

Biting back a sob, she carefully placed the box of chicken fingers on top of the pizza box in his hands "Bon appetite," shefor the door

"Zoe, wait!" she heard him say, but she didn’t stop She ran into her apart for the second time that day that she had just kept her rily wiped away the tears After all the crap she’d gone through in the last couple of years she couldn’t believe that a gorgeous guy calling her fat finally made her cry

"What an assle," she mumbled around a sob as she buried her face in her pillow

It wasn’t like she didn’t know that she was fat, but having it pointed out by so Granted, she kneas saying it because he was pissed, and she did kind of, sort of go out of her way to embarrass him with that "you’re loud" bit, but that didn’t stop it fro

She’d lost count of how ht Sometimes the diets would work and she’d lose a few pounds only to gain all the weight back plus soo as she wished or work depressed her more than usual

Well, at least she didn’t have to worry about binge eating after receiving another write up for using too ht dryly Of course being une, but at least she wouldn’t have to worry about binge eating while she looked for a job since she couldn’t afford it

What in the hell was she supposed to do now? She was uneood recommendation from The NW Corporation, the firo Why hadn’t she kept herstories about how her old bosses treated their ex-e her big fat ht that they’d appreciate finding out where theirShe never expected the her a raise or a pro She wasn’t delusional after all, but she had hoped that they would relax their rules a little bit so that going to asn’t so damn stressful, but really she should have known better

Telling her immediate supervisor, who in turn let everyone know that one of the partner’s wives was stealing froone with her original plan and anonyht the information would have been taken seriously unless there was an actual person behind the complaint She should have known that Mr Sands would take it out on her

Now she was facing a future of living out of a car, again Granted her car at this veryvandalized and

"Zoe," she heard Trevor say through the wall

"Go Away," she said into the pillow, unsure if he could hear her and really not caring She had enough proble his bullshit into the mix

"I’m really sorry," he said louder

She didn’t bother answering as she lay there, hoping he would just give up and leave Of course he didn’t

"I’ain

Frustrated that he wasn’t going away and angry with herself for crying, she rolled over onto her side and de me fat?"

"Hey! I didn’t call you fat!"