Chapter10

#Chapter10

VEGAS

Present day

/"Well, you know what we have to do, right?/" Shondra said, bending down and picking up her chair. /"We need to go to that party./" She sat down delicately, like a princess on her throne.

Shondra was indeed that—more than. /"A Queen among mere mortals,/" one of her /"dates/" told her a few months back. We’d laughed about his cornball sentiment, but it was true. Shondra, who’d come up from nothing, had an empire. She was royalty.

/"I think I can wrangle an invitation,/" she said, nodding to herself.

/"Wrangle? You must have been looking at an old western or something./" I took a handful of popcorn. It was cold. I winced as if it burned me and dumped it back in the bowl.

Yuck!

/"Cold popcorn is so gross./" I dusted my hands over the table, trying to get rid of the nasty, shivery feeling.