Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe #3)

by Jason Pargin

In Rose’s final bit, she said the killer had paid for the right to do it. That’s never been true, Clarence, and you know it.” “I don’t know it. I got thrown under the bus over that whole Wrexx situation.” “You refused to ban him,” said Zoey. “After Lyra reported him. Did that order come from above or not? If it did, tell me who gave it to you and I’ll get rid of them.” “You don’t get it. They didn’t have to specifically say I couldn’t ban him. All they had to do was make it very clear that per-store revenue goals had to be met, no excuses. No, I couldn’t lose an influencer customer who could swing my average review score by three stars with a single video. Not when I was trying to meet a number that was based on paying eight-figure rent at the mall. Real cute how that works, isn’t it? Nobody has to come out and say anything about keeping Wrexx as a client, they just set the conditions so that nothing else can happen. Then when disaster strikes, they shrug their shoulders and say, ‘Not our fault, that was an underling who went rogue, for absolutely no reason.’ So as far as I’m concerned, yeah, Wrexx did pay for the right to indulge his psychopathy.”