Page 82 of Duty and Desire
Bitch Translation: It hasn’t been that long for you to be this tight with him, so I got you.
“Though you were fuckin’ him a lot longer than that, yeah, Tammy?”
I went still under the weight of Mo’s arm as these words came out of Mo’s mouth.
The “him” I assumed was the boyfriend since all the color ran out of his face.
No longer distracted by my chest, Peacock was realizing who “Mo, the ex” was.
“Let’s move on, Tam, yeah?” the boyfriend said, and I figured he did this because he had the gift of sight and this conversation had taken a turn he did not want within reaching distance of Mo.
Tammy’s eyes were full of regret when she looked up at Mo. “Mo, I?—”
“You honest to fuck wanna do this in a King Soopers?” Mo asked.
“No, she doesn’t,” the boyfriend answered hurriedly.
“Well,Iwanna do it in King Soopers,” I snapped.
All eyes came to me, even, I felt, Mo’s.
“Are youhigh?” I demanded to know fromTammy.
“Lottie,” Mo muttered, that arm around me tightening, or more like squeezing.
Even with the real danger of him dislocating my shoulder, I glared atTammy.
“You walked right up to him and said, ‘hey,’ after you cheated on him. Who does that?” I asked.
She looked to her cart and muttered, “Maybe we should just?—”
I stepped out from under Mo’s arm and stood in front of her cart, cutting her off by ordering, “No, bitch, answer me. Who does that?”
I felt Mo’s fingers curl into the back waistband of my jeans and he probably had to stoop real low because I also heard right in my ear, “Lottie?—”
But I had Tammy’s attention again.
Andher squinty eyes.
“Did you just call me a bitch?” she asked.
“Yeah, bitch, I called you bitch,” I answered. Then I shrieked, “You cheated on Mo!”
Yeah, Ishrieked.
But what was the matter with her?
“Fucking hell,” I heard Mo murmur just as I felt my jeans get tight at the waistband since he jerked me back by using just that.
I whipped my head around then cranked it to look up at him and yelled, “Let go of me, Mo!”
“Lottie, cool it,” he commanded.
“Fuck cool!” I shouted. “She cheated on you then walked right up to you at aKing Soopersand said, ‘hey!’”
“I don’t care,” Mo told me.
“I care!” I yelled.
