Noose by Eros Marata

Author:Eros, Marata [Eros, Marata]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Tamara Rose Blodgett
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

~ 9 ~

“Billionaire Jared McKenna has been detained overnight for the alleged assault of physical therapist Faren Mitchell,” a reporter chimes. Her bronzer makes her look like an oompa loompa.

Kiki turns off the television and stares at me, having just extradited me from the holding tank. I wrinkle my nose-- pee and barf still sharp in my memory. “Oh my god, girl, this is so many levels of fucked up shit.”

I can only nod at another ugly turn my complicated life just took.

I perch at her small kitchen table, déjà vu slipping over me. I've come full circle. I'm back at Millennium Tower, about twelve stories below Mick's place.

I swallow past the mental replay of what happened in his condo. “Yeah, so what I need. More notoriety.”

Kiki leans forward, long black hair misses her coffee by a millimeter. “Is it true?”

I roll my eyes. “No.”

“But he came clean about the strip clubs?” Her brows draw together as she sets her tea cup down.

I shake my head. “No, not exactly.” A laugh of pure exhaustion erupts out of me. “The cop is the one who dropped that bomb in Mick’s little humpshack up there.”

I point to her ceiling.

Kiki folds her arms. “I never even knew that McKenna lived here.” She blows a strand of hair out of her face and moves away from the table as I look out the window to the water outside, “here I was, all jonesing to meet his rich ass and then poof-- he lives above me.” She flings a hand above her head.

Kiki puts a butt cheek on the super-high seats around her trendy square nook table. It angles perfectly in the banked windows where west meets south where the glass windows intersect. “Somehow, I'm not thinking you like the proximity.”

I look at her, hand around my mug of coffee, forgoing tea for the moment.

“No. I mean, I don't know.”

She says, “They're going to dredge up all the shit again.”

“Yeah.” I lean back against the chair. “Just as I was becoming a nobody, they'll latch onto the entire Ronnie thing again.”

I slam my mug down on the table. “I don't want people knowing...”

“You took a chance when you signed up for the titillating stuff,” Kiki says.

I sigh. “Yes, I'm aware.”

Kiki lifts her shoulders in consolation. “People are entertained by sex.”

“And evil,” I add and we lock gazes.

“So here comes beautiful Faren Mitchell, survivor of an attack by her lunatic perv stepfather, only to be assaulted by billionaire bookoo bucks.”

I grimace. “Alleged.”

“Okay... so spill-- what did happen. The torn panties have made the news.”

My mouth falls open, the fire of shame coalesces inside my chest. “Are you shitting me?”

Kiki shakes her head slowly as her eyes glide over my sick expression.

“Oh my god, my life has become a soap opera.”

“It's official.” Kiki raises her hand solemnly. “You're the 'it' girl right now. Your apartment was ransacked, and that prick Tasered your supposed attacker, and you were collateral damage.”

Kiki doesn't look away. “Did he really hurt your hand?”

I nod.

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