da Coo

estate and headed back toward the city, my

renaline of the last few days

my cheeks flushing with embarrassment. "Could we stop by that

nodding immediately. "Of course, Luna

rantically. "Just a plain cheesecake

o the curb outside a ch

rked in the blind spot across the street. Its tinted rear window was rolled down

of the door bell was instantly dro

macaron in the displ

ag on the glass counter, completely ignoring her hyperactive, chubby s

ly for the flustered clerk to hand me

tting shriek, shoved past the glass d

ing hard into the side of the idling

alf-open rear window, and caught sight of the

ambling backward and falling onto his re

, dropping her purse, and stormed

d followed, a terrible f

pounding her fists against the tinted glass. "You disgusting freak! Rolling around

, Justen sat c

hands clamped tightly over his knees. His knuckles

during the screeching insults of a foolish woman, desperately holding back a murderous frenzy j

d, thrusting her hand through the half-open window

our knees, you vile creature! Pe

walk, murmuring and pointing at the grote

s horrifying..."

as he endured their insults, a bl

oved through the whispering crowd, and grab

ssed, I yanked her backward with all my might, s

ng directly between her and the car window, throwing