longer frightening me by staring down at me. He l

ons or the rest of his face (and hair and tats and body). I

" I ex

en pesos," Blade replied, his white flash of a smile surrounded by his dark goat

od," I e

for my checkbook. "Do you think you ca

od," I s

I took a step back, clamping my mouth shut and shak

over twenty-two mill

Blade r

illion pesos?" I said i

Blade c

accounting mistake?

n he shook his head and crossed his large,

s is foreign currency. Won,

Blade sa

money," I told him, which

," he replied, "but I'

dn't bother him. The bad news was, my sist

to raise that kind of money," I s

replied, still grinning so big that I wou

en, snapped shut my checkbook, stuffe

son to lose my mind

atrina

tips? Is it too much to ask for a sister who finds a great sale, immediately calls you, but peruses the racks to stash great deals she knows would look hot on you so you can get a shot at them before anyone else? Is it too m

ed and I could swear I could read on his face that he w

money to buy marijuana.At Thanksgiving dinner, she got drunk and stuck her hand down my boyfriend's pants. He was straight-laced, went to church, and after Sadie's antics - and the hand down the pants was only the tip of the iceberg - he thou

nd I swung around to see i

ad back and ex

round my neck, dipped his face into m

down when I looked

key," I

es twi

e body s

is fingers curled deeper into my flesh and something flashed in his eyes t

time

work, so, um, can I just leave this to my sister?" I inquired polite

u with a blade for

ight,"

ll," he

nt anyone to take a blade to me for Sadie, or at all, and I

e drew me up a little so that I was almost on

lose. Shiv

." He was still speaking softly. "When this Sadie shit

ker gang twenty million pesos in debt. And I had a feeling there weren'

because I was under the impression that with Blade, honesty was the best policy."All right, peaches, wh

ed, "but why would I get

where she has not lived, and shit everywhere.

because others..." he paused, "might

egretting my decision not to call my father or, say, board a plane

ns you

,

do I o

but did no

,

e you?" I rep

and get you out of here; w

ssured him, and said a short

rin w

off my arm and digging into it before I could say

g his bones was high on the list of possibilities. I also reasoned that he could beat me to my purse, so I was going to let him ta

d buttons with his thumb, flipped it closed, dropp

ed it. You don't need it, but you still want to use it

r on my shoulder. That's what I t

ff yet ano

ou, Savannah,"

en I turned around and saw Tiger gr

hat made it sound like he'd actually se

aw them all smiling, thought this was scarier than

in lifts and one

of there as qui