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Beau Radcliffe was the first to speak casually as he sipped from his turaduating class to begin the trials Glad we can watch you fuck it up first so we can learn what not to do”

Ignoring his taunt, I took any meant for the recruits of the Order

Six of us

Up until tonight, we hadn’t reached the age or gone through the trials to earn our place with the uest of honor for tonight’s gathering, it would only be a matter of time until I could leave the kids’ table

“Did we have a choice?” Sully VanDoren asked as he see the booze fro that screah-class from the htly closed drapes that hung behind hi and opulent they pooled on the floor

His mama would be so disappointed in his lack of Southern char had changed since we graduated Darlington Preparatory Acade here, always had, and by the look on his face, alould

“Why did you even respond to the invite?” Beau asked, not out of judgment but ton I figured you were dead or so”

“Or soed and reached for the crystal container in the middle of the table filled with a scotch no doubt e payoivewhat you’ve alanted Whatever the fuck that is”

“I want the sa you all do, or we all wouldn’t be here,” I said

“Pretty boy Montgo class, listed in Forbes as one of the wealthiest ton,” Sully listed with a set to be the first of us to turn twenty-five and be bestowed upon even more Lucky, lucky you” His sarcasm was not lost on me

“Stop being such an asshole,” Walker St Claire snapped “It’s not any of our faults you hate this shit, your VanDoren nae and ties to the Order aren’t going to go away no ht want them to It is what it is It’s e are whether you like it or not And since Montgoin this process, our tiree to not be dicks about this?”

I knew Walker would be like me, think like me, and act like entle thick ealth His father was one of the Elders of the Order, just as hed heavy for us to run the Order ourselves one day