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"Threatening you?" Noel sounded confused as a ruefully grinning Pick glanced my way

"Oh yeah, I kind of lied about all that No one’s been threatening Felicity"

I narrowed et you to agree tohilea ed her close "I wouldn’t say I was et them to resolve their issues"

"Well, it worked, you lucky bastard," Felicity lanced aze softened as she added "Thank God"

I held her gaze, just as grateful, before re toward the stage, I saw hi and exhale before Asher noticed it He yanked it out of Rock’s hand and waved it in his face in a repri it in a nearby wastebasket

As Asher stalked off, I watched the way lared after hih, so I wondered if he was all talk about his hatred of City’s faer to her after all

"Since we’re all confessing shit," Pick spoke up "Parkerit’s bugged the hell out of uilty to forcible rape Sowhy?"

I froze, staring at hi this upin front of City

She slid against h mine "It was for his faazethat everto your family if you didn’t"

Her words trailed off as she kept watchingme away because her blue eyes widened orry and surprise "Oh uilty?"

I couldn’t tell her it was because of her If she had found out back then, she would’ve fought harder for er for uilt What had happened was in no way her fault; I didn’t want her feeling culpable in any way

With a glance toward Rock, I realized I couldn’t confess the truth in front of hi more loyal to her than I’d been to my own family