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Chapter Sixteen - Intimidating Neon

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ELLIE

I've never been a club person. Why? The second my father sent me to live with my mother, she began advertising me to her drug vendors, pushers, traffickers, telling them I would be a long-term investment or telling people that I would only take a short time to be ready. I was taken everywhere those people lingered—bars, brothels, and mostly clubs.

She didn't really intend to sell me to those people. She just made me do so many disturbing things for money, money she still spent on drugs an
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    ELLIEI smile at the right moments. I laugh when I'm supposed to. I touch my father's arm and lean close when he says something, and I make it look like I want to be exactly where I am. None of it is real. All of it is perfect. But my heart is slamming so hard against my ribs I'm surprised it isn't audible, because Lorenzo is twelve feet away from me and the air between us feels like the moment before a storm when everything goes still and charged and wrong. Silas sits beside him looking like he's choosing, very carefully, not to break something. And Noir —I don't look at Noir. I can't look at Noir and hold this smile at the same time, so I don't.I reach for my water glass and take a slow sip and remind myself to breathe. They weren't on the guest list. I went through that list name by name, four times over, and the Black Rose was not on it. Which means my father put them here. My father, who is currently sitting at the head of this table looking pleasantly at ease, his eyes moving

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  • The Black Rose   Chapter 92 - Right There?

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