Page 38 of Wild Idol
Evangeline cringed.
“You going to chill out if I let you go?”
I had his arm wrenched behind his back, angling toward his shoulder blades. It wasn’t a pleasant position.
“Yeah,” he groaned.
The crowd looked on, momentarily stunned.
“You’re lucky I don’t take your ass down to the station. But I’ve got better things to do.” With caution, I let him go and stood up.
Chase climbed to his feet and brushed himself off. His cheeks were flush, and he looked around, embarrassed. He straightened his sport coat, then took Evangeline’s hand and pulled her away.
She cringed and said, “Sorry. It was nice to meet you both.”
“Shut the fuck up,” Chase snapped.
“You shut the fuck up!” she replied with a twisted face. Evangeline looked back at Vesper, who still lingered near us. “Are you coming?”
Vesper’s sultry eyes flicked between the two of us. “I’m going to hang here for a minute.” She said to us, “I’m safe with you two, aren’t I?”
“Indeed,” JD said.
Vesper shouted to Evangeline, who was already halfway across the VIP room, “Text where you end up. I’ll catch up later.”
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“He’s such a tool,” Vesper said. “I don’t know what she sees in him.”
“Where’s your boyfriend?” JD asked.
Vesper smiled. “I don’t have a boyfriend.”
That made Jack smile. “It’s hard to believe you’re single.”
“Yeah, well, he screwed up,” she replied with a smirk. It gave her an idea. She pulled her phone from her purse. “Let’s get a pic. He stalks my socials. It will drive him crazy.”
“Are you trying to get him back?” JD asked.
A look of revulsion soured her face. “God, no! But sometimes it doesn’t hurt to let people know what they missed out on.”
Vesper directed us to huddle close on either side. She held out the phone and snapped a picture.
The flash spotted my eyes.
“One more,” she said.
Click!
Flash!
Like any good art director, she reviewed the footage and smiled. “We look cute.”
“Youlook cute,” JD said.
“This will be perfect. He’ll think I’m fucking both of you. It will drive him insane.” She swiped back and forth between the two shots, deciding which one would have the most impact. She swiped a little too far, displaying a prior image. It was a selfie image of the bombshell standing in front of the mirror in a seductive pose, wearing lacy, white lingerie.
“I believe that would make him jealous,” JD said.
