Chapter 428

  Until I saunter right past it sat on the side table purposely, with two more steps to my open exit, and throw the whole damn thing right out onto the back patio with a flourish. Turning with a raised brow as we hear the delayed ‘woosh’ of exploding cellophane and scattering flowers on concrete slabs. A sense of soaring elation that I just pretty much delivered a big ‘fuck you’ with minimal effort.

  Arrick’s face changes from deadpan calm to utter shock; his eyebrow twitches, trying to conceal disbelief, a confused smile and frown, yet doesn’t know what to say, or how to even react. He just keeps staring at me, bewildered. I guess he probably just wasted a couple of hundred bucks on that empty gesture, and I don’t actually care.