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“In a heartbeat,” I said as I pulled out my phone. “What’s your number?”

After giving out my number, placing a food order for the new arrivals, and busing a few tables, I went back to the mom that seemed to be doing a little better now.

Her kiddo was still sleeping, but her eyes were hopeful when she saw me coming.

“You could always start messing with him,” I said as I took the seat across from her. “If you’re not ready to leave him, or tell your parents about it. I just watched a video about microaggression. Pretty much, you do small things that are not super harmful to piss him off, but do it in a way that he won’t know that it’s you.”

Six

Why are women evacuated first in a disaster? So men can think of a solution in silence.

—Text from Chaos to Posy

POSY

“I’m sorry, but what?”

My sister smiled. “But the diner lady helped me figure it out. Also, she’s a badass. Her and this guy got into a tiff at the diner today because he didn’t want to tip her. Well, maybe it was more me butting in. I heard that he wasn’t going to tip, and then I had to say something. He got all defensive, and then his dad came in. The guy’s dad made him feel like shit about it, so he left her a lottery ticket as a tip.”

“Huh,” I responded, “and what else happened at that diner?”

She got a pensive look on her face before she told me about her school bully, Melody Flores.

I’d hated this stupid girl since the first time that I’d heard about her, and the only thing saving her ass was the fact that she was a minor.

The moment she turned eighteen, though, I wouldn’t feel the same way about keeping my hands to myself.

There were only so many times that I could hear about my little sister getting her hair cut, or paint poured on her clothes, that I could handle.

“Oh, and get this.” Scottie leaned forward like she was letting me in on a secret. “You’ll never guess, but my school bully is the sister of the same man that didn’t want to tip today.”

A lightbulb went off in my head.

Tony Durant had been married to his wife, Telly. They’d had a son, Taryn Durant, before they’d divorced. Telly was a heartless human being and raised her children to be heartless just like her. And as if the universe wasn’t worse with those two human beings, Telly had married Bob Flores, and they’d produced another asshole, Melody Flores.

I knew their entire life story because I’d asked Apollo, the Truth Tellers MC computer genius, to look into them for me.

He’d researched them and come up with a complete bio on them, right down to the illegal organizations that they dabbled with.

Instead of ruining them like I wanted to, I’d waited for the school year to end to see if things calmed down.

However, hearing that Melody was now going to A&M, and making Scottie reconsider going there, I might have to wade in.

“I’ll handle it,” I responded.

That girl would not be going to the same place my sister was going.

I refused to allow it to happen.

Scottie deserved the world after the life she’d lived.

I would make sure that she was happy, even if I had to bankrupt the asshole and her family to do it.

Seven

May the only tears you shed in 2025 come from gagging on cock.

—Inspirational words of encouragement

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