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I got toin their direction Ally saw me first, followed by Cass, who stuainsther back, helping her balance, I titled my chin at my cousin "Where is she?"

Ally’s face dropped "She wouldn’t corowled out loud, "Why the fk not?"

"Said she was tired"

"For Christ’s sake!" I shouted, causing Cass to jolt upright and hold up her cell

Fiddling with the screen, she put it to her ear, winked at lish ass out! We’re getting trashed and need the fourth ly as though certain her drunken little call would work I couldn’t hear what Molly was saying, but by the drop in Cass’s expression, I could tell she wasn’t getting the answer she wanted

Ally esture behind Cass’s back and snatched the device from her hand Cass tried to wrestle it back but was distracted by the sight of Ji in excite hi into Cass’s cell phone "You sure you won’t come, darlin’? I don’t like that you’re alone in your rooood ti my eyes froed the rest ofthe call with a shake of her head

"She says she’s just tired" Reaching out, Ally laid her hand on uarded, Rome She don’t really let anyone in She’s thelet ht at the initiation I was friggin’ different to her I kneas, but her never turning up or sticking around forto piss me off

In a second, I made up

"I know that face," Ally said warily, a flood of questions in her eyes

Backing out of the doorway and sot so her hands onto her waist, Ally yelled, "Roo over there uninvited! She’s not one of your sluts!" Pretending not to hear the worry and censure in her tone, I kept going through the crowd but sly, "It’s the balcony to the left ofout of the backdoor ofacross the street, I foundup at the stone colu from her room, and I shookJuliet’s balcony… Fuck Me Sideways

Reaching down to my junk, I checked my balls were still there… You know, just in case they’d been revoked at such a pathetic and desperate act, but yeah--still intact and aching for the chick in that room just a stone’s throay

I reached down to the fancy landscaped lawn borders, scooped up so the plants and rolled the stones in my hands I was about ready to throw theers parted and the gravel slipped through the gaps

Moving to a shadowed, secluded spot, I slue

Daddy: Look, son, I went too far with you the other day Let’s talk about this cale with Shelly happen The business needs it, the faood between us, you need it to happen too

My head fell forward Even when he was trying to be nice, he couldn’t help but issue a threat I didn’t knoho he got it frorandparents were the nicest folk on Earth His brother, Ally’s daddy, a saint, butry--turned hiht ofwhen they moved to Florida, and they both passed away shortly after they left

I re me to pee-wee football for the very first tirandson showed good proot to see er to see what I becarandparents; even as a tiny kid I could tell that hteenth birthday, I found out just how e trust fund, one that my folks couldn’t touch My daddy flipped when I told him a lawyer had turned up at my frat house with the details, and it was froer use money to control me, so he switched to blackmail and humiliation instead