Page 24 of Reverse Perspective

“You ask a lot of questions, Little Demon,” Mason says as he kisses the top of my shoulder. “Sit.”

I do as he says and all three of them disappear. “Well then,” Jake laughs.

“You look… I don’t even know how to describe it,” Billy says.

“Our little Sadie is realizing what her much larger best friends are about to do to her,” Ben grins.

“I will hurt you, Ben,” I warn.

“Oh, leave her alone,” Stacy says. “Just like… Do some stretches first.”

“God almighty, guys,” I laugh. “Let’s just give me a panic attack. They’ll be nice and attractive.”

“You look incredible, by the way,” Todd says.

“Thank you. Did they get mad at you?”

“Not mad, they were just annoyed that I was forcing them into something, but they would spend forever being hesitant, thinking they were going to hurt you.”

“Well, the look on their…”

“You dumb whore,” Angela practically shouts. I cut my eyes over to her before looking back at Todd, ignoring her.

“The look on their face when they saw me was amazing,” I say, as if this bitch didn’t just yell at me in front of a room full of people.

“You act like this innocent little church girl but you are a conniving little slut,” she snaps. She has a drink in her hand andI am picturing her throwing it on me. If this bitch throws wine in my face, I’m going to go to jail tonight.

“Angela, I would be happy to talk to you, but I am not going to talk to you when you are having a temper tantrum,” I say calmly. “Take a deep breath and talk to me, or wait until we leave and you can yell your little lungs out for all I care.”

“You’ll regret this,” she says, seething.

“Regret what, Angela? Are we talking in code here or can you be a bit more specific for me?”

“Lance. You fucking took him,” she shouts. I chuckle and scoot my chair back to stand up.

“Sadie,” Todd says. He and Jake stand up with me, not trusting that I won’t break her neck.

“I took him?” I ask. “Baby, he was never yours. He was always mine, and that’s not changing anytime soon. You will always be known as that one whore he fucked who got a bit too attached.”

“I will fucking ruin you, bitch,” she growls as she steps closer to me. I smile at her because this shit is hilarious. There is nothing she can do that we can’t fix.

“You know… It’s interesting that Alex bid on you,” I say. “You two would make the perfect little white trash couple.”

“You bi….” She raises her arm to throw the wine on me but Stacy grabs her wrist. “Ow. That hurts.” Angela cries out when Stacy twists her arm behind her back, making her drop the wine.

“Get the fuck out,” Stacy says in a scarily calm tone of voice. “Come near her again and I will personally find you myself. Understand?”

“Yes,” Angela says through gritted teeth.

“Good,” Stacy says as she shoves her toward Alex.

“Hey,” Lance says as he turns my face and kisses me. “Everything okay?”

“Yeah,” I smile up at him. “She’s just learning her place in the world.”

“You think you can handle them?” she laughs. “A little virgin like you?”

“It’s funny, Angela… Even Alex was ready to pick me over you… And he’s a piece of shit,” I say and Lance chuckles. “Just because you spread your legs for everyone doesn’t make you more or less capable of handling something. But… how am I whore and a virgin?”

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