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Dylan doesn’t say a word.

“Girl.”

“Gleb’s outside,” I tell her. “He’ll take you home.”

She sips her drink and looks me up and down. “Is he single?”

I walk Dylan out to the car.

* * *

She’s quiet in the back seat. Curled up in my jacket on the far side, staring out the window at Sunset. I let her.

We’re halfway up the hill when she says, “Everybody saw.”

“Yes.”

“Everybody, Sasha. People were filming. It’s gonna be on TikTok. Ray saw. Kevin saw.” She drags her hands down her face. “I can never show my face in there again.”

“You don’t work there.”

She turns her head and glares at me. “That is not the point.”

I reach over and drag her across the seat into my lap. She doesn’t fight. She’s got no fight left. She just lands on me, heavy and soft and warm, and puts her face in my neck and stays there. My cum’s soaking through my jacket on my slacks. I can feel her heart slowing down against my chest.

“That boy,” she mumbles into my neck. “Is he okay?”

“No.”

She’s quiet a long time.

The gate opens ahead of us. All that glass lit up gold on the hill. And in the driveway, in the headlights, two men on their knees with their hands behind their heads and Misha standing over them.

She sees them. She goes stiff in my lap.

“Sasha. What are you gonna do to them?”

“Go inside, Dylan. Take a bath. I’ll be up.”

“Sasha…”

“Go inside.”

She looks at the guards. Then at me. Then she gets out of the car in my jacket and her bare feet, carrying her heels, and walks past them up the steps without looking down.

I watch her go. Her ass swaying under my jacket. Her thighs. My cum on them.

She’s gonna run again. I know it. She’ll find another dress and another trunk and another hole in my fence.

I’ll find her every time.

And one of these times, I’m not bringing her home empty.

Eight

Dylan

My mama saw the TikTok. Of course she did. It got four million views in two days. Somebody put it to a Sexyy Red song. Somebody else slowed it down and put it to Adele. There’s one where they zoomed in on my face and put a crying emoji on it, and one where they zoomed in on my ass and put a fire emoji on it, and that one’s got the most views.