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Turning, she faced Salvation’s mayor and number one Sweet family hater, Tyrell Hawson “Thanks for the advice”
“Just trying to be helpful” He curled his lips back in what he probably thought of as a smile “Maybe you can help me out now”
She leveled a hard stare at him and raised one eyebrow “How’s that?”
“Forget your fundraiser, go back to LA and take your sisters with you” He said it all with the soft, good-natured delivery of a guy just trying to do her a solid
His words sank in, each one slicing open the wounds fro with those Sweet girls The whispers The stares The hell of growing up a Sweet in Salvation She’d never understood how so about her and her sisters just because of their last name
“Why do you hate us so much?” She didn’t mean to ask, and God knew Tyrell was the last person she should have shown even the slightest bit of weakness
He narrowed his eyes and every bit of fake good ol’ boy vanished froood town—an honest, God-fearing town filled with hardworking people—and we don’t need your kind around here”
“What kind is that?” Anger flooded her veins, burning with decades of frustration She stood up, towering over the shorterhow he shrank back “Soht back the Sweet Salvation Brewery froe of disaster and saved the jobs of dozens of people in Salvation? Someone like Natalie, who couldbusiness to grow a local company? No, it can’t be them, so it must be me I’azines”
“But those days are long gone for you, aren’t they girlie?” he snarled “Now you’re just a porn star”
Her heart stuttered to a stop before starting again with a frantic rush that sent her pulse pounding through her body
He couldn’t know There was no way Her name hadn’t been attached to the photos her ex had posted There’d been speculation and gossip, but no confirmation It had been the one positive of the whole Larry shitstorone and revealed that it was her
Tyrell puffed up his chest and leered at her tits “Oh yeah, the town is going crazy this afternoon about the naked pictures of you all over the internet Some tabloid TV show broke the story today What a slut bimbo move on your part What did you thi
nk would happen when you took those kinds of pictures?”
That she was sharing soht she loved That he’d never break her trust by sharing the pictures That the last thing Larry would ever do was share the photos on a revenge-porn site Yeah, she , and she sure didn’t deserve to be called a bimbo slut by a jerk like Tyrell
“You bastard”