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“I just wish I could see it all getting delivered,” I say wistfully when e has all been plotted and executed

“I wish I could see the look on that butthole’s face,” Luna mutters darkly

“Me too,” I agree as I pick up the offending bouquet of flowers and the stupid book and deposit it right where it belongs

In the trash

I try not to think ofup metaphorically there with them, but it’s hard not to think, at this point, of edy I feel e bundle of hope picked at by life, by circumstance, and by other people I’d trusted, or at least seht be on ht for a reason I didn’t have any right to hope for anythingabout Daniel He was too handsoood with his dark, sinful eyes and his sinful body and just ugh all his sinful passion, and I got wrapped up in it, and that makes me feel every bit like a lust smitten, absurd child

Thinking aboutdose of er onlyAnd at least Luna is here, and I know my family will always be here for me no

One butthole getting served justice coht up

CHAPTER 5

Daniel

“Oh It’s you”

There’s clear disdain in the way Leandra raises her head from behind the sales counter at her boutique, stares , no smile, no pleasantries Yeah She’s pissed

Seeing her like this for the first ti the extreme beauty behind practically knocks me down for a punch Of course I looked her up when Granny told me who she was Of course, I knew already how beautiful she is Still, it did not exactly prepareshe actually is

Oh, she is a goddess all right

Beautiful and elegant She is refined in a way that very few people actually are any five to six inch pumps that make her appear taller and more professional Her white button-down blouse is so sheer I can see the lace of a ca alold chain catches the light at her throat, drawing my attention there to the hollohere her pulse thru the sweet honeysuckle taste of her there

Her red lipstick and furious blue eyes, twin sapphires burning as bright and cold as an ice-covered lake under the cold rays of a winter sun, bite through s her narroaist and defines her shapely hips I can’t see all of it, but I have no doubt that the rest of her looks equally as fabulous as the parts I can see

As if the toilet and the bouquet of dead, wilted flowers ordered to h

I hold out lance around her boutique confired, slender wo through racks of clothing at the back I wasn’t sure what kind of place I’d find, but the address of the boutique, which I got frorandma before I sent that bouquet of flowers yesterday, told h end, since it was in an area that also included other designer shops, five star restaurants, non-tourist cheese (I mean not cheese, but you know, not the cheesy kind of souvenir shops), high high end jewelry stores, and beyond that, classy and expensive houses

Leandra’s boutique is housed in a building that’s a collection of sleek black lines and endlessly tall s froht and dazzling colors, rich fabrics, tasteful jewelry, and the laring at me with no small amount of hostility and suspicion Yeah If looks could kill, I’d be contorted into so my head stuck up my own behind Literally Because Leandra wouldn’t hurt a fly, but I think she would get great joy fro me in a position like that

“It’s esture of peaceful supplication, hoping that Leandra won’t reach for the stuff beside her on the counter, which is s that could be used as a weapon, like a letter opener and a stapler She could also hurl the heavy ass looking roll of tape at my head “It’s me, but I can explain”