Chapter 35

Suddenly, Valerie grabbed Sam’s hand and pulled her along toward the restaurant. As Sam looked back over her shoulder, she noticed the clerk come out and bring the sale rack into the store.

As soon as they were around the next corner, Valerie handed Sam a turquoise blue top. She had a big grin on her face.

Sam took it as if it were hot—which, indeed, it was. She looked at her lover with a puzzled expression.

“I liberated it for you, baby. You like it?”

Sam was speechless. Even though she had done some crazy things in the past months, her inner self was still the good girl her mother had raised. She had never even stolen candy from the Jiffy Store as a kid.She so didn’t want this stolen garment, but she didn’t want to hurt Valerie’s feelings. The best she could come up with was a quiet “thank you” and a quick hiding of the shirt in her purse. Even that freaked her out—now it might look like she had stolen it. But Valerie had no purse, so Sam did the only thing she could think of.