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No, she'd have to take care of this before her parents even heard about it
“Look, I don't have it all, but I'll get it I just need so the lunch shift to the words was like watching her dreams curl up and die
Snips' eyes lit up, no doubt at the prospect of getting his grubby hands on her hard-earned cash
That s after she'd paid for her stay at the Rose O'Neill Dry Creek Artist Colony, but if Cy was desperate enough to borrow money from Snips, he really needed it The fact that he'd dropped out of sightand he was in real trouble Damn, why hadn't she followed up on his last cryptic text? He'd proain—unless so awful had happened
“I need it all” Snips snuck across the invisible line separating her space from his “Of course, you're such a hot piece of ass that I could be persuaded to give you a few extra weeks, if you asked in the right way”
The ants double-timed across her skin and she took an involuntary half-step back “Come on, we've known each other since
middle school I've told you a million times, no way, no how”
Anger flashed in his beady eyes “Yeah and in all that tilance or the respect I deserve I was never good enough for you But guess who needs me now?” He raised himself on his tiptoes and jutted his face into hers “Who's hot shit now, bitch?”
His hand shot out so fast it must have broken some kind of land-speed record and clamped onto her left breast
Shock stopped the moment in time Her brain eht: What The Fuck?
He kneaded her tit like a baker with a loaf of unforh
Rage and disgust rattled and cliritted her teeth and shoved his hand away, her knee sla into his steroid-shrunken balls He bent over with an oo tray in both hands and swung it with everything her five-foot-eleven-inch body could give The traysound on the side of his head
He went down Hard
Lungs heaving, she tried to bring her breathing and heart rate back to normal while her brother's loan shark—the round in agony
The other poker players, waitresses and even the new bartender let out a collective gasp Pandeed around the back, but he tipped an invisible hat at her Shouted questions bounced off the walls