Page 141 of The Way the Heart Breaks: Jade’s Story

Jade is already grabbing Tessa and pulling her backward. “Tessa, don't.”

“She deserves so much more than that!”

Lucas reaches them first.

Sadi is on the ground, one hand over her face, already crying and then she looks up at us. “Did you see what your little whore did to me?”

“Yes,” he says. “And I saw how it started.”

He grabs Sadi by the arm and pulls her to her feet. “Go home, Sadi. We aren't doing this shit. Not ever again.”

She jerks against him. “You're hurting me!”

“Get in your car.”

Her friends are already hovering around the little black BMW.

Sadi turns her head toward Tessa, “This isn't over.”

Lucas opens the passenger door. “Get in.”

She does and her friends pile into the car behind her.

Tessa watches them.

“What is that thing? A fucking clown car?”

Jade makes a shocked little noise beside me. “Oh no. She said fuck. Tommy, she said fu⁠—”

I can't help it; I laugh.

Tessa looks at me. “What's funny?”

“Nothing.”

Sadi rolls her window down. “It's a BMW, farm trash.”

Tessa takes one step forward. “I’m gonna kick her ass all the way back to hell where she⁠—”

I catch her around the middle. “Easy, tiger.”

She fights my arm for a second. “Let me go.”

“No.”

“Tommy.”

“Nope.”

“She called me farm trash.”

“I heard her.”

“She called me a bitch.”

“I heard that, too.”

“And she called me⁠—”