“Nothing, man, we’re sorry. She thought someone left it on.” Jay ran a hand through his hair and stepped back.
“Um,no.” Daisy huffed, crossing her arms before glaring at the four of us. “Other people want showers too, you know.”
“Yeah. Which is why we take ours before the sun rises,” Nathan retorted.
“Together?” She twisted her lips to the side.
“Yup.” Nathan wrapped his arm around Tori. “Got a problem with that?”
Daisy shook her head slowly before frowning at Tori. “Wow. You’re actually fucking all three of them together, then? You were too self-absorbed to show Jay the attention he deserved because youlacked a sex life, but you’re fine with whoring yourself out to three men.”
“Daisy, stop.” Jay grabbed her hand, but she shook him off.
“No. It’s bullshit, and you said it yourself!”
“I amnota whore!” Tori seethed, visibly shaking in Nathan’s embrace, and anger flooded me.
“Yeah. Like your year-longdry spellbecause of the surgeryyou chose to getjust magically healed itself when three cocks were in front of you.” She snorted. “Jay always deserved better than a closet whore.”
Tori’s face turned a shade of red before she jerked out of Nathan’s arms and stomped between Calix and I. She pulled her arm back with a closed fist and threw a punch in Daisy’s face with a resounding crack. “I’m not a whore,and I was the onewho deserved better than both you and Jay. And I did better with the men I’m dating now.”
Daisy’s eyes watered immediately, and her head flew back before she held her nose that already had a trickle of blood running out of her nostrils. “Did you justpunchme?”
I pulled Tori back and stepped in front of her before glaring down at the bitch as I noticed two shambling bodies enter the clearing. “If it were me, I would’ve done more than justpunchyou. Watch your mouth around her.”
Jay grabbed Daisy’s arm and tried to pull her back, but she kept shaking him off. “I’m sorry on her behalf.”
“What?” Daisy spun in place before pointing her finger in his face. “You were just agreeing with me that it wasgross that she was with them all!”
He winced before shaking his head. “It’s not our business.”
Two gunshots rang out, and the two jumped before Benjamin walked up with his gun in his hand as he approached them. “I am frankly disgusted by you two. Interrupting them in the shower was bad enough, but going off on Tori the way you did was disrespectful, and Micah was right. If it were me, I’d feel like you were a danger to our home. I don’t know if you’ve realized the way the world is now, but causing issues with other survivors suggests that you enjoy sowing seeds of discord.”
“But she—”
He held his finger to his mouth, cutting Daisy off before continuing. “I have no problem sending you two on your own if I see another display ofbullyingin the Oasis. We don’t tolerate that here.”
“We understand.” Jay went white as a sheet as he tugged on Daisy to leave the shower with him.
Benjamin turned toward us. “Do you feel they should leave?”
Tori shook her head, but the guys and I stayed silent. “I don’t want to be responsible for that.”
“You wouldn’t be. I would.” Benjamin shrugged and spun on his heels to face them again. “One more issue with you harassing others, you’re gone.”
Tears flooded Daisy’s cheeks as she finally let Jay pull her away from us.
“You four get dressed. You don’t need that kind of shit.” Benjamin nodded at his son, and I shut the door.
Tori let out a steady breath as she dropped her towel and cupped her mouth. “Oh shit. I punched her.”
“You stood up for yourself, killer.” Nathan kissed her cheek before grabbing her clothes and handing them to her.
After we were all dressed, she hesitated at the door before facing us. “Daisy wasn’t always such a bitch. She used to be my best friend. We spent all the time in the world together growing up, and we did all the normal things best friends did together. Spencer and I thought of her as another sister. But she was always a little boy crazy. She was obsessed with this group of guys in college, and the one she was least interested in asked me out. That was Jay. After we started dating, she acted differently. Always made herself out like she was better than me. It was weird, but I never thought she’d turn out likethis.”
“Jealousy makes people do crazy things,” Calix murmured.
“It’s also not your fault, darlin’.” I leaned down and kissed her head. “Let’s go see what we can do to prepare for our supply trip.”
