Chapter 23

”You’ve got such a pretty smile.
It’s a shame the things you hide behind it.
Let us go give it up for a while…
Let us free and we will both go find it…”

Seeing Melissa, Carmen crossed her arms instinctively, covering her abdomen. She didn’t feel shame, even if it was quite obvious that she and Shane had just had sex. They both had that “just fucked” look all over their faces, their hair were a bit uncombed and their outfits looked slightly crumpled.

Shane had her breath still uneven and reached for Carmen’s hand, squeezing it slightly, reassuringly. She moved a step forward Melissa, gently pulling Carmen behind her back in a protective demeanor. She didn’t like that woman and she was doing nothing to hide it.

“What are you applauding at?”, she asked menacingly, pointing at Melissa with a slightly shift of her chin. Her green eyes were freezing cold, narrowed, full of mistrust.

Melissa scoffed and shook her head. Her curly hair waved. She was beautiful, but hers was definitely a cold beauty. It was detached, full of tantrums.

“Despite the music and the closed door, anyone could hear the two of you fuck. So I’m just congratulating you, Shane. You seem able to make my woman come more than I do”, Melissa replied, spelling every word attentively and staring deeply into Shane’s eyes.

Shane grimaced in disgust at the idea of Melissa spying them.

“I’m not your woman anymore”, Carmen chimed in, her voice curt, firm, and Mel’s eyes narrowed in her direction.

“You smell like sex, Querida”.

“Stop it”, Carmen replied sharply, clenching her jaw and trying to pull Shane back.

Shane’s body remained still and rigid. Her face was now unreadable, and it wasn’t exactly a good sign.

“You know what? At this point, I think that you need a lesson”, she said, quietly.

Melissa smiled slightly and tilted her head to a side. She was definitely drunk, and Carmen didn’t find it surprising at all.

“A lesson?”, she replied, arching her eyebrows, amused, “What are you going to do, Papito? Slap my ass ‘cause I’m the bad girl on your list?”.

Shane chuckled coldly and shook her head.

“Nah. You still don’t get it, do you? I am the bad girl on my list”.