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Cassie

The red stain spread across his crisp white shirt in a wide bloory-looking lass lay shattered into pieces at his feet, sparkling like little diamonds

That shirt probably cost more than three months of my rent, and the suit looked custom The pinstripes matched up perfectly at the shoulders, each little detail fastidiously tailored and finished

“You idiot girl,” he said, still trying to wipe the wine off with his palms, like that would work

He was a wine-soaked gorilla

I was teest club soda Or maybe I should just run

Instead, I kept my mouth shut and kept still

His date, a pretty brunette with striking lips, thick dark hair and eyebrows, and enough jewelry to etic smile

“It’ll be okay, baby Just a little stain”

The man shoved her away

“Do you have any idea how ed out, and he stared at me like he was about to rip off

Which he s considered

It was a very weird party

Winter in Sea Isle, New Jersey, didn’t exactly get a ton of tourists, but when Jack, the er at the Stone Harbor Club, calleddown and offered ht, I had to say yes Money was always tough to come by in the cold, lonely months

Though, in retrospect,home would’ve been a better idea

The rooirls draped on their ar softly to each other, the rooer and discontent

I knew men like thears and talking at each other too loudly over poker ga with a sense of unease and latent violence It’d been a long tiet anywhere near , so I kept h

The ballroo, with a dance floor and lots of round tables, but there was no athered men seemed more like they’d rather blow lines of coke off a stripper’s ass and maybe kill someone than do the Electric Slide