Chapter 124
Chapter 124
“What is the deal with you two?” She asks, her smirk deepening.
“I mean, you’re engaged to this Daniel guy, but all day our conversation has been Kent Kent Kent.”
“Well,” I say, scoffing a little bit, “Daniel’s not really in control of the family and hasn’t been making a lot of decisions about my life – that’s all been Kent. Honestly, Daniel is really nice to me –”
“Really nice to you?” Janeen says, raising an eyebrow now, adding to her skeptical expression. “Honestly, the way you talk about Daniel, he’s just some nice little puppy you play with sometimes. The way you talk about Kent, though,” she laughs a little bit, shaking her head at me. “Are you sure he isn’t the
fiancé?”
“Ew, Janeen,” I say, arranging the features of my face into an expression of disgust that, if I’m being honest, I don’t actually feel. “He’s like…old.”
She shrugs. “Some of my older gentlemen are my best clients.”
“Well,” I say, tossing Heathcliff’s comb into its bin and facing her directly. “Kent is not my client. So, you can end that line of thinking right there.”
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eagerly at me. “I can tell you like him- and he’s hot
“Janeen!” I say, getting upset and stomping my foot like we’re four years old again.
She laughs, but backs off. “Okay, sis,” she says, coming and putting an arm around my shoulders. “Whatever you say.” She pulls me with her out of the stall.
I open my mouth to protest further but she waves me off, looking towards the front of the stables.
“Look, I have to be getting back so that I can help dad with some stuff before work tonight.” She turns back to me then, looking me from head to foot. “You going to be all right, if I leave you here?”
I shrug. “I’ve survived this far, I’ll probably make it a few more days at least. Do I get to see you again?”
She gives me a smile. “Yeah, that’s part of the deal. Kent is going to let me see you on the regular, which I think is good. I miss my little sister. Any messages for dad before I go?”
I feel tears spring to my eyes again when I think of him. “Just tell him I love him?” I say, sniffing and working to hold them back. “And that I’m okay?”
Janeen nods, wrapping me in a hug. “Be careful here, Fay baby,” she whispers in my ear as she holds me tight. “The media has been saying a lot of shit about organized crime in the city right
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now. I think it’s getting bad–like some kind of war is brewing. You
stay out of it as best you can, okay?”
She pulls back, then, looking me seriously in the eye. I nod eagerly, feeling every bit the little sister then, following my big
sister’s advice. “I’ll be careful,” I say, giving her a smile.
“Good,” she says. Then, she glances down at my hand, where I’m wearing my engagement ring. “But if you do die, please make sure to leave me that in your will. I would retire immediately. Buy a
yacht.”
I laugh, then, unable to help myself. She laughs at her own joke too, giving me a kiss on the cheek and heading out to where a car is waiting to take her home. God, I’m so glad to have my sister back. And so grateful to Kent for setting it up.
What ever could have made him do it? I head home, eager to find
out.