Page 48 of Sweet Addiction

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Lexie

Yup.

Lilah

Ohh. Can I please help you pick out your dress? I already know what I want to put you in.

Dillan

I’m not a Barbie, Lilah.

Lexie

Barbie never had your ass, D.

Dillan

I hate you guys.

Lilah

You love us. Meet us tomorrow to look at dresses?

Dillan

I can’t. The shop is open tomorrow.

Lexie

The shop is two stores down from a couture dress shop your cousin owns. I’m pretty sure she’ll squeeze you in on your break.

Lilah

And wear a thong. I don’t want to see lines when you try on dresses.

Dillan

Seriously?

Lilah

I’m thinking you’re not even going to be able to wear a thong under the dress I want to put you in.

Lexie

Oh, this is going to be fun.

Dillan

For you maybe.

DILLAN

She isn’t fragile like a delicate flower waiting to be trampled in a field.

She’s fragile like a bomb, ready to explode and destroy everyone in her path.

—Dillan’s description of her heroine in A Crown of Stars and Ruin

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