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The elevator paused on the 24th floor, and Pippi tried to keep her face blank when she saw Millicent Longbourn step in, followed by an older woman

As the doors closed, Pippi couldn’t help noticing the way the other wo contempt

Pippi slowly lowered her head even as shaulfed her It wasn’t her place to interfere, and yet…

“Don’t you think it’s started to smell?” one of the women asked loudly

Shit Shit Shit

Her teeth gnashed

Don’t interfere Just don’t

“Now that you’ve mentioned it,” another woman drawled, “it does seem like it”

“And if I’roup added snidely, “It’s a rather whorish smell…”

Millicent is a big girl, Pippi tried to convince herself And a really tough girl, too, she added desperately in her mind as the insults continued and Acheron’s former lover refused to answer back for some reason

“I truly feel for you, Mrs Longbourn, to have been forced to move out of town—”

Pippi’s head jerked up, and this ti becabourn inside was none other than Millicent’s own hter

Don’t let get them to you

And the plea seemed to have done its job, with the way Millicent was visibly struggling to control herself

Good for theht, and if she were smart, that was exactly what she should do, too Just let this one go, and find another subtle and discreet way to help Millicent Longbourn

Pippi began chanting the words in her mind

Let it go

Let it go

Let it go

But when she lifted her gaze anew and sa Millicent’s own eyes were s in Pippi just snapped Maybe it was the co to let out stea to her fa was still okay between Acheron and her, but she just couldn’t take it anymore

“So people saw her blowing the man she loved,” Pippi heard herself yell all of a sudden “What’s so shameful about that? Or is it that you’re really all just secretly envious because none of you are ht?”

Gasps filled the elevator, and not all of the purple with rage

“What are you staring at?” Pippi snarled