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"I’m offended, Elise Really I’ seconds "If you do, I’ll know And I will be pissed, do you understand?"

"It’s a et her a little drunk, what could possibly go wrong?"

"I’ I saw your little stealth hand , but Antoine is exhausted tonight so I ignored it" She stops to glare at al, Ronin You will not get her drunk"

"Would you relax, Ellie! It was a joke, since when do I getall batshit about this I’onna take care of her just like I take care of all the rest, except I’onna enjoy our photoshoots just a little bitthat remark is fantastically fun in my mind, but Elise is not amused

"That’s what I’m concerned with, Ronin We don’t need another Mardee on our hands"

Oh… buuuuuurn What a bitch "You knohat? Fuck you, Elise I was nineteen fking years old when she ca"

"And that’s irl is nineteen too, she’s had some kind of very recent upheaval in her life, and you’re fking with her head right now Stay out of her pants, do you understand? Or I will pull you from this project so fast your dick will spin"

"Whatever" I wave her off and go back inside I a I’ve come to terms with since all that shit went down I could nothat I dropped the ball when she wasfor us just pisses et back inside She’s waiting by the door, biting her lip

"What?" I ask, a little impatiently as I direct her up the stairs

"What was that about?"

"Nothing, don’t worry about it"

"I put the dress back in the bag and hung it up on the rack"

I shake Elise’s words off and take et as we round the corner and head to my apart Are you still up for a movie?"

She nods "Yeah, sure"

Rook is not Mardee, in fact, Rook is the anti-Mardee There is not one thing I can think of that ht link the two They don’t look alike, they certainly don’t act alike, and I never thought of Mardee as anything ht the same of me We were mutually apathetic towards each other

"But Elise didn’t look too happy"

I push Rook inside the apartment and close the door, then take her face in ain but she’s not as interested as she was down on the terrace "She’s just overprotective, that’s all She worries about the girls, especially the ones I date" I stop here to make a point "But I’d just like you to know, I don’t bring them home, Rook Ever"