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Fear for Mateo ate away at Olivia as she rubbed her cheek, bruised fro into the brick wall, and followed him toward the police car A s her

“Nothing you can do for hied her back toward The Kitchen Sink’s front door “Best thing to do is to get your ducks in a row for bail”

Still trying to process what had just happened, her brain hiccupped “Bail?”

Ruby Sue shook her head “Coet your parents out of the county jail”

“More than ten years” Her dad had protested the closure of the dra down buck naked on the fifty-yard line during the high school hoame

Ruby Sue shrugged “When you’re et you soure out what to do next”

They weaved their way through the gossiping crowd surrounding Larry as the paramedic evaluated his obviously broken nose Everyone there was detere Mateo had inflicted, no doubt so they could exaggerate it sufficiently at the Boot Scoot Boogie honky tonk later that night

The cold march of ants up her spine told her the exact moment Larry spotted her in the crowd She knew she shouldn’t look She should just keep

“Unless you co to sell that video to the lowest bidder!”

So inside her snapped and she jerked to a stop After everything, he still thought he could cow her into doing what he wanted Theshe saw so in him The crowd buzzed around her She and her sisters may be the only Sweets left in Salvation, but the town still knehat Larry had no clue about You could push a Sweet only so far before they let their freak flag fly and invited the world to coly up close

The initial blast of anger gave way to a crystal clear understanding of what had to happen next He thought he had a bargaining chip? He had nothing, and she was going to show hi he had

“You lost whatever hold you had over me with this video when I ca line of crazy Sweets We’re expected to do things that cross the lines like get naked in an elevator Hell, edly burned down the DMV; we, of course, maintain it was an electrical fire Do you really think that video would harm my reputat

ion in this town?” She laughed Hard For once, being an unhinged Sas going to work in her favor “You want to sell that video? Go for it”

“I will” He tried to s up made it impossible

Now to turn the screws “Just reave you cash That’s blackmail”