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“Uh-huh” She rolls her eyes as she chews, and I fail to restrain the soes on “So, what exactly happened last night? How did you end up getting hit?”

Mywhere I was and why “I had an interview for a job”

“Cool Where?”

“It ith this guy, Salvatore The fact that he didn’t give ave me his number, so I called, and he said to coot there, it felt off It was this old warehouse The job was supposed to be as a hostess for soht maybe they just don’t do interviews there, or , but”

“What?”

“It wasn’t And it wasn’t the kind of club I thought it would be, either As soon as he started talking, I kneasn’t what they wanted And the interview turned into more of a tryout for what I think was the real job” I raisea special sort of hostess”

“No shit Like he wanted you to do so?”

“Yeah, he told reat Then he asked if I was ‘experienced’ Said if I was a virgin, the pay would be a lot et out of there, he had unzipped his pants and told me to show him how much I needed the job”

“God da usted look on her face

I shrug “It’s okay I should have punched hiuys in the office when I walked through, so all I could think of was to run So, I ran Out the door, down the street through the rain, and with all that thunder and lightning and being in this crazy panic, I thought I could ht into Vito’s car”

“Wow Enter the white knight on his trusty steed, racing in to save the day”

I feelme up off the pavement How he looked athe could to put ether

For his size and entle He felt fatherly al I’ve iined before

I shiver, thinking of each time he touched me, oddly entitled I should have been furious, but I was more flattered He took control of me in a way, and I hate to admit how h there is this unreasonable connection between us that has its hooks already sinking into me