The Girlboss Begs For Remarriage

Frank frowned but did not argue with Mandy, and instead reached for the jug of water, pouring himself a glass.

Mandy snorted. "Can't even afford to buy himself a drink, and trying to freeload off Soren. Despicable.”

Frank used the dim light and deafening beats to pretend not to hear Mandy, not even looking her way.

It took a while until Dragondawn finished, and everyone in the bar including Tilda applauded.

She turned toward Frank, her cheeks flushed as she smiled and asked, "What do you think? Don't you think they're just so cool?"

"I don't know much about music,” Frank admitted. "But I thought they were a little noisy.”

"Hah! You really are a bumpkin." Mandy promptly jumped in to mock him. "You can't even understand new age rock. Honestly, what are you doing here?"

At that point, Frank realized that Mandy was on Soren’s side.

as Soren smiled faintly and shrugged. "Don’t say that, Mandy. The arts are just too advanced for backwater folks—it's normal if they don't

referring to Frank, but

could say whatever they wanted to

was grimacing when he saw that Frank was unfazed, realizing immediately that Frank was completely ignoring him as if he

insulted, or harassed an elephant, the elephant would not even

left

follow Frank's gaze just then and realized Frank was staring at a

eyes, Soren soon recognized the man—he was

turn. "Did Willy's company invite The Spades to put on a live show for them?" He knew Willy's style all too well—the casting couch was inevitable

not spared and was coerced by the Soranos in every way, mere students like Kat and

he remembered Lily's naive smile, and