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Carlos whips out his cell phone, but his sausage fingers must already be soaked with sweat because the device slides right out of his hands and shatters on the cold hard cement below

“Hey,on between you and my father!” Carlos throws his hands up and stuine

All I can do is watch

One of the reasons I’d settled on Carlos in the first place was because it looked like his father had done so the jean-jacket douche angry, it er I felt at his flippant dismissal of my advances

Sure, it was a good thing that he barely acknowledgedon pure rebellious impulse at the time, and my carefully laid out plans would have surely crumbled into a thousand different pieces if he had shown even the slightest bit of interest—but that doesn’t irl can’t be mad at such a rude rejection

I deserve more than that but, still, it was probably stupid to purposely attach myself to someone I don’t care for just because they pissed off a beastly stranger

What a—there is no maybe about it, it was stupid Marcela warned ht, but I didn’t listen, and now it feels like I’ at best, and a murder at worst, and all because of

“You’re co at Carlos like a bat out of hell

“No!” the piggy squeals

I feel like I should do so, but what could I possibly say to stop this train wreck? “Hey, you can’t just take ht before it escapes my lips For some reason, I’m not afraid

That all changes when Montoya’s attention turns to aze, I’m frozen in place like a scared lamb Oh shit

Montoya stops in his tracks as Carlos scurries behind a nearby car “You!”

Is it weird that nizes h in his mind to warrant such a reaction Maybe I’ht I was

Though,in the brute, like I’ to solve There isn’t time to turn and run, he’s in front of me before I can blink twice

“Who are you?” he growls, suddenly co date