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My brow furrows. “What rumor?”

Cenzo grins a lopsided smile. “Actually, forget it. You’re not gonna like⁠—”

“Can we fast forward past the bullshit to the part where you just tell me?”

He chuckles and shakes his head. “Well, you asked.” He glances at me. “Word is, you collect dicks now.”

My jaw sets as we walk down the street to where I parked my pride and joy around the corner.

“Dicks.”

“M-hmm.”

Bella.

This has Bella’s bullshit written all the fuck over⁠—

We round the corner, and my heart drops to the ground.

My throat tightens and a whining sound fills my ears, blocking out whatever Cenzo is saying to me as I come to a dead stop. He glances back at me and frowns before he turns to follow my rigid, icily furious gaze.

“Oh fuck…” he chokes, his eyes going wide as they land on my car. “Dude…”

I’m going to kill her.

My gorgeous, Chantilly cream-colored 1965 Aston Martin DB5 with custom cognac leather interiors and a one point five million-dollar price tag has been desecrated.

Violated.

Fucked with.

Big, spray-painted dicks, complete with balls and squiggly lines for pubes, cover the car.

The hood. The doors. The roof. The fucking windshield.

Neon pink. Green. Blue. Purple…

But apparently that wasn’t enough. They’re joined by vigorously painted slogans like “Daddy’s little princess”, “SIZE QUEEN”, and “CAR-MA is a bitch lol”.

Cenzo is talking. I don’t hear him.

Lieutenant Groves of the Hawthorne Hollow police department is telling me something about having to tow it to the impound lot due to it both being evidence and also a “lewd public display”. Other people are starting to gather around, giggling as they take photos and videos of my poor, sweet baby.

I barely hear or see any of it. All I can do is stare at that car and imagine Bella’s smug, psycho little grin as she fucked up my most prized possession.

I’m no longer thinking of her perfect tits or her mouth or the way she “feels like a worthy foe” or whatever sanctimonious bullshit I was spouting before.

Not anymore.

That fucking psycho just a crossed a fucking line.

And now there’s going to be hell to pay.

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BELLA

At first, when I open the door to my space under Rose Observatory for her, Ari and I just kind of smile awkwardly at each other. Which really confirms what she texted me earlier today, that it had been too long since we'd seen each other.