Page 24 of Grumpy Sunshine

There was a large group now, watching it all.

Seeing as we were supposed to be in a church meeting right now, it made sense that they were all there.

But still.

I didn’t know that I liked them all watching Aella the way that they were.

Admiration in all of their eyes.

And lust.

The motherfuckers.

“Maybe we should stop her before she hurts herself,” I wondered as she suddenly produced a knife.

“If you stop her, I’ll never forgive you,” Copper muttered.“I’m really enjoying this.”

“That’s a sixty-thousand-dollar car!”the cleaning lady cried in my arms.“And you’re letting her ruin it!”

We all ignored her as we watched and waited for Aella to get herself under control.

It took a while.

It wasn’t until she punctured all four tires and moved to the trunk that she calmed down.

That’s when the woman I was holding in place started to struggle and struggle hard.

I let her go only for her to fall, and when she hit the ground, I stepped on her long hair to keep her in place.

She screamed when she tried to get up and couldn’t.

“Take this,” I said to Webber, jerking my head down to indicate the woman.

He replaced my foot with his, and then I walked over to the trunk to see what had Aella so frozen.

When I got to the back and saw, my heart skipped a beat.

“Holy fuck,” I said as I stared at all the cash.

To say that it was filled to the brim would be an understatement.

There was so much cash that when she’d opened the trunk, some of it had spilled out onto the ground.

I whistled in appreciation.

I had plenty of money.

But still,thiskind of cash would tempt anyone.

“Webber, get over here,” I urged.

Webber came, and when he saw the money, his brows rose in surprise.

He turned back to the woman on the ground and said, “Whose money is this?”

Aella’s mother refused to answer.

Aella walked over to her mother and said, “Who did you take that from?”

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