The Bullet Comments Called Me Stupid And Doomed Chapter 08

The Bullet Comments Called Me Stupid And Doomed Chapter 08

The nausea followed me all the way to work, but it was manageable. I could live with it.

What I couldn’t live with was the luxury car that clipped mine in the parking lot outside the office. The driver was some young guy. He offered to settle it on the spot — no insurance.

It was barely a scratch and I was already late, so I snapped a few photos, swapped numbers with him, and headed inside. I’d barely sat down at my desk when he sent me twenty thousand dollars.

The scratch was a thousand-dollar fix, tops. I needed the money — badly — but I wasn’t about to pocket nineteen grand I hadn’t earned. After a little back-and-forth, I settled on five thousand.

My company didn’t have an official policy against pregnant employees — but everyone knew how it actually worked. The second they found out, they’d make your life miserable until you quit. I needed to hang on for as long as possible, so the pregnancy stayed my secret.

Luckily, the baby cooperated. The worst of the morning sickness stayed outside office hours. If a wave hit while I was at my desk, I could grit my teeth through it.

The guy from the parking lot — Trent Vargas — kept asking me to dinner after that. I had zero interest in men right now, and I wasn’t going to string some guy along just to use him as a rebound. I turned him down every time.

The afternoon our divorce was finalized, Trent was waiting for me outside my office building, holding a bouquet of roses. “Stella.” He held the roses out, smiling. “Let me take you to dinner. Just once.”

I was already getting ready to say no when the comments flickered back — the first time in weeks.

[This pig-bothering scam is moving way too slowly. He still hasn’t reeled the ex-wife in? When is she finally getting lured to Los Cuevos?]

[Honestly, the ex-wife doesn’t deserve to die over this. And this con artist has already hurt other girls — can someone catch this guy already?]

[The scammer is just a plot device. He’ll probably get caught right after he sells the side character out.]

So that was what he was.

I smiled, took the roses from his hands, and looked him straight in the eye. “Sure.”