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11. In Your Imagination

Author: Excel Arthur
last update Last Updated: 2024-11-09 18:07:57

Flora's POV

She is smirking at me as she takes hold of the snack and tears it open. Then she turns it upside down allowing all the contents to spill against the flow directly in front of me.

"Whoops you have messed up this aisle on Flora. I think you should bend down and pick up the crumbs with your mouth," she says, and this forces me to clench my fists tight, trying to control the rage in my body.

Is she now stalking me or something?

I'm not going to allow her to get to me. I quickly turn around and begin to search for another aisle where I can get what I'm looking for.

But then she quickly walks ahead of me and stands in front of me leaning against a counter and pushing me back with her hand against my chest.

"No no. I never asked you to leave. You are not giving me the right to work out on me when I'm talking to you. Don't you understand that?" she requests, and this forces me to look away, still struggling to control the rage building deep down within me.

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