RED HOT STORIES (A COLLECTION OF ST*AMY STORIES)
“Notorious, maybe. But headlines exaggerate. I’m much more charming in person.”
She didn’t look up. “Charming isn’t the word I’d use,never at least not for someone like you.”
I tilted my head, closing the space between us until I could smell the citrus from the lemons she was slicing. “Then what word would you use?”
Finally, she met my gaze. And in those eyes, I saw it: disgust. Not veiled, not polite. Open. Unfiltered.
“Disgusting,so much that it alters me alot a whole lot I can tell you.” she said flatly.