Chapter 34 Don't You Dare

• ALEXA
• The comments blurred together the longer I stared at them. I tipped the half-empty whiskey glass to my lips again, my eyes stinging as laughter bubbled up from somewhere hollow inside me. It wasn't funny, none of it was. But I laughed anyway.
• "'Gold-digging widow poisons husband and seduces her way into a billionaire's bed.'" I read aloud, my voice wobbling with every word. "Wow. They really pulled out the literary knives for that one."