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75: Lorie's Love.

Author: TheLadyAthena
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-03 02:53:20

~flashback~

…15 YEARS AGO…

Vivian’s POV

“What are you doing here?” I muttered under my breath, slamming on the brakes as my headlights caught a stumbling figure on the sidewalk.

Of course, it was her. It has to be!

Lorie. She's my older sister. Also my shame and my burden, all wrapped up in fishnet stockings and smudged lipstick. She was weaving back from a club again, her dyed-red hair sticking up in wild angles, tattoos peeking through the ripped sleeves of her shirt. Always rowdy and unmotherly as usual.

“Ah, shit,” I cursed, jerking the car to the side.

I rushed out, the gravel crunching beneath my heels. “Lorie! What the hell is wrong with you? You’ve got a child at home, for God’s sake!”

She spun around, wobbling dangerously on too-high boots, her eyes were annoyingly defiant. “Shh!” She wagged a finger in my face. “Don’t you shush me like you’re some saint. I’m older than you, okay? Don’t tell me what to do!”

The alcohol hit me like a wave when she leaned closer. I recoiled,
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