“Jessie, give Ava some space.”
“You’re standing up for her?” Jessie squeaked. “After what she’s just done?”
“You came in here and attacked her in front of everyone, sweetheart. What more could she do?”
He groaned when she started the waterworks, and spying that, Ava grumbled, “Go on, Jessie. Be a cliché why don’t you?”
“Ava, that isn’t helping,” Mundo retorted.
“I’m not trying to help. I’m trying to get her to grow a pair,” she immediately snapped, eyes flaring. “For someone who needs help, she doesn’t look all that grateful, does she?” She folded her arms across her chest.
“What do you want me to do? Get down on my knees and kiss your feet?” Jessie snarled.
“And there we have the real Jessie,” Ava retorted, content at last. “Behind the big eyelashes and the tantrums, the b***h is o
