BADGIRLS by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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My dress is a mess, but it’s all I have to wear. After a long ride away from the ugly house, with my face shoved in the limo carpet, I’m dropped barefoot and trembling on a street corner just a few blocks from where I was taken.

It’s nearly noon. Bailey will be at the beer hall. Riva is scheduled to work. I can’t leave the city without some clothes and money, so I take a chance going home to Bailey’s loft. I don’t know what I’ll do. I have to think. There’s a band around my ankle with a tiny hoop embedded in the metal. It jingles lightly when I walk, and I feel the brand on my ass with every step. I think I like the fact that I’m branded. It’s naughty, something evil women do to themselves, and bad girls get when they don’t behave.

The coast is clear when I get to the loft. I wonder what Bailey thinks of the note—if he even got the note. Although, I don’t have to wonder about that long. As soon as I get inside the door, I see the paper I signed last night, crumpled now, lying on the coffee table in his living room. Something about it makes me act fast. I quit my impotent daze and go for the closet, gathering clothes into my backpack. I leave the blue green dress on the floor. It was so pretty, so soothing when I put it on twenty-four hours ago. But it’s ruined now, soiled with too much fear and I can still smell that awful potion embedded in the fibers.

Done with my packing, I head for the door and open it to find Riva standing there.

“Girl, what’s gotten in to you?” she tries to bully her way in, making me back up.

“I’ve got to split,” I tell her.

“Why? What are you doing?” She looks at the backpack suspiciously.

“I can’t tell you now, I just gotta go.” I try to force my way past her.

“Hell no! You’re not leaving. You’re in trouble and the trouble’s got to end.”

“It’s more than that. I can handle Scofield. I just can’t handle this toe-the-line crap I get from Bailey every day. I’m not a very good girl. Respectability doesn’t suit me. You oughta know that by now.”

“Honey, you look like hell, and damned scared to boot. What gives? You love Bailey.”

I shake my head hard. “No! No, I don’t. I love the little girl’s daddy fantasy, thinking he can protect me from myself, but he can’t. No one can. And I got to live with that the best I way I know how. Now,” I stare her down, backpack over my shoulder, “I gotta go.”

I shove my way past her this time, running, walking fast as I can to the street where I hail a cab. I hop in feeling safe inside, now that my decision has been made.

The cab takes me to the bus station. I’m headed to St. Louis where Aunt Ginny lives and I can crash there where it’s safe.

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