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“Yeah, sure it is, just like her orange XXL breasts But whatever”

“Ouch” He grinned and there were a few herbs fro to his front teeth “You sound bitter”

How dare he comment on how she looked, felt, or sounded! “I have news for you, Stan I’ve moved on with my life”

“So have I,” he said with a sickly smoothness that made her throat constrict “Millie was just a phase”

She felt his gaze on her breasts and then her throat and it repulsed her How could she ever have thought she was in love with this creep? “Right”

“She was a mistake, I admit it I was a fool to think she could ever replace you I was blinded, seduced by her”

“Oh, give me a break It was all her fault? You dumped me on Christ? Or did she drug you with one of her very special cocktails?” Piper let out a hollow laugh and shook her head with disbelief “It’s not working, Stanley I’ in self-respect anyertip down her cheek “I’ve been ht it et his finger off her “Too soon for what? For et what a manipulative bastard you actually were to et so desperate for your co me like a piece of trash?” She stepped back to evade his touch “Get real, it’s not going to happen”

“So ed about you”

“Worried I ht embarrass you? That’s pretty much a trademark You always did your best to exclude uess that’s why you’re here—work Charity was never very high on your list of priorities”

“You’re right, this is a corporate invite Business before pleasure, you know that’s the way I need things to be”

“Business before everything, right? Except for slutty cocktail waitresses” Stanley had the ability to , especially ones that fed his pomposity Words like corporate and business were like verbal tics And then she noticed he was carrying a leather iPad case with his initials ehed if she didn’t feel the sudden urge to vomit all over his far-too-pointed shiny shoes Stan was such a dick If only she’d been able to see it when they were together

He snorted in the condescending way he always did when she dared to contradict him or stand up for herself “She has teeth noell as a fancy outfit” And then henoise in the back of his throat that sounded like a drain “Bite ive it another try, you and usted expression she could ? Or rownout, like a locked gate that had suddenly been opened after seven years “You are, and always have been, a corabbed her by the wrist and gritted out a false s she recognized i yet, honey pie I’d like to introduce you to nificant other and the tio of me,” she said “People will notice, you idiot”