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A Billionaire Holiday Tale

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The Grant-Mathers

Word of Cassandra’s arrival was assured the ements were made What nobody – least of all the s out the inator of the rue

Caroline Grant-Mathers hated her o for two reasons: it actuallythe excruciating pain she was put under (worse than the dentist, really,) and she thought herself a wo the latest trends What Caroline would always refuse to ad the Thai e parlor in town because she overheard Francesca Blake at Bridge Club going on about it

Now soave Caroline a co, and popping was liable to send her to hell and back

“Mother cheesin’ fucker!” she yelled into her pillow “Just rip another baby fros for that shit!”

This was the sa for the past five ar outbursts If she were truly bothered, she never let on, and for that Caroline always left her a hefty 50 tip at the end of her sessions But that tip always remained up in the proverbial air when Caroline was in themelted into soup

“Kick led hair came undone Hair dyed a deep brown blinded her froe roo! Call my son and tell him I…”

“Ms Grant” The receptionist froe, rin “You have a phone call They say it’s urgent”

“Who is it?” The pain had yet to subside even though the er touched her Caroline atte

“A woman, Ms Grant”

“So helpful, thank you” Caroline reached out and took the cordless phone the receptionist offered her “Hello? Who is this? Caroline Grant-Mathers, here State your business because I’m a busy…” Her neck popped “…woman”

“Caroline!” The shrill voice of Adelaide Aimer, live from Seattle, screa it took e your cell number?”

She had changed it when soingboytoys, but Adelaide didn’t know that Nor did Caroline need to know that changing her nu out her cloud once in a while, but ould be the fun in any entity – such as her oh so tech savvy son – telling her so helpful like that? (Really, the world was better off with Caroline continuing to make unfortunate decisions about her personal life)

“How did you even find ive e for now, please”

The woman bent down and hissed in Caroline’s ear, “You didn’t pay for a regular et what you pay for”

“Please, not right now…”

Heavy hands clamped down on Caroline’s shoulders and rubbed the shit out of theain!”

“But what a?”

“Hello? Caroline?” Adelaide was the last person to give a fuck about what Caroline was up to when there was gossip to curate “I found you because I called Sally, who called Rhonda, who called Mya and she said that you go to soe parlor on this day”

“Thai It’s a Thai e”

“Oh, eould you do that?”

“Neverout of your way to call me?”