Clarisse, as stunned and dazed as she was by the approach Wichita made.
Did she know from the start I’ll be back with the motive of proving her wrong?
And so she was pretending to be this person?
These thoughts did nothing but piqued Clarisse even more. Wichita had again made Clarisse think about how dumb she was. And how easy it was to predict her. Raymond and Eric and all the men she had been with just lied to get in her pants, saying pretty things, veiling their vile motives behind the sugarcoated lies. People always lied to her whenever they said that she was smart and radiant, she was independent and confident. That's what everybody does. She’d heard people telling her, “she is a paragon of a fierce soldier.”
Clarisse doubted every compliment that she’d ever gotten from her paren
