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“Well?” Jules said, spreading her arms again. “Here I am!” “Forget it,” Vivian snapped. “Not when I’m this mad.” Jules’s arms immediately dropped back down. “You’re mad?”
“You are,” Vivian said. “You are.” And that was when Jules realized Vivian was crying.
Damn
“Now what am I supposed to call you? My partner?” Her lip curled as if the notion was too prosaic for words. “How about your piece of ass?” Jules suggested. “Julia,” Vivian said reprovingly, but her lips twitched. “Your number-one babe.” “No.” Vivian turned and headed for the bar. Jules accompanied her. “Your hottie.” “Not that either.”
😂😂😂😂
Jules and Vivian gave each other a wide-eyed look. “It’s more than that,” Aliyah said. “Just look at what’s happening to Vivian and Jules. That’s twice they’ve tried to come out, and nobody’s even listening.”
In the den, Vivian sat in one armchair, gracefully poised in spite of her swollen belly. She was smiling like a crocodile at Jules’s parents, who sat on the loveseat and were glaring right back at her.
“I can,” Vivian said, “but I won’t. You can’t possibly think I’m interested in justifying myself to you.”
QUEEEN
to know, whether she’s your mother or not—” “But…but why did you—” “Because it worked,” Vivian said flatly. “I knew it would. That’s what it took. So I did it.” Her mouth quivered with anger; her eyes were practically throwing off sparks. “I always do what it takes. Haven’t you noticed?” Jules felt breathless. “Do what it takes to—” “To keep you.” Vivian looked her right in the eyes. “To keep you with me, and to keep them off our backs. I don’t want a rift between you and your parents. It’d come between us too.” “No!” Jules said at once. “I would never have gone back with them. You don’t
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“I thought the same thing, although I hope I wouldn’t white knight myself into somebody’s house.” “Of course you wouldn’t. You’d summon them to our house and make them explain themselves.” That was enough to make Vivian laugh out loud, something rare enough that it still shocked Jules like a fuzzy sweater on a dry, cold day.
Jules looked at Vivian to see Vivian looking right back at her with glazed, pained eyes. The thought came as suddenly as a lightning bolt: This is it. The last moment. It’s just the two of us.
Oh my heart...
