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Vida didn’t break her gaze for an instant "I’ot in too deep," I said "I could feeldeeper and deeper, but it didn’t et anyone to do anything I wanted I got to punish the people who hurt me, and you, and Liam--and I still wanted more Once I didn’t have to touch a person to use hi away that last roadblock"

She sighed "Not that it’ll ot what he deserved in the end"

"It wasn’t just hiht, I really thought about turning hi him And then, with Rob…"

Vida didn’t react as I laid out exactly what had happened in the car--what I had done to him--in vivid detail I confessed it all to her, the words flooding out, releasing the knot that had been tightening in the pit of my stomach since it happened

"I don’t want to be hi "I don’t want to use my abilities unless I have to--but then how do I stopat us to leave you?" she asked "Which, by the way, screw you You think I’ of an assle?"

"What if I can’t stop," I said, "and so happens to you? Or Jude, or Nico, or Cate, or Chubs, or…"

Liaht turned my stomach over

I was surprised by the quiet that followed Vida drew her hands into her lap, fixing her gaze on the at her bloody cuticles

"That other Orange," she said after a while "He was a grade-A freak"

"Yes," I agreed, "he was He was never shy about taking whatever he wanted from whomever he wanted"

"Gave me the fkin’ creeps," she usting shit Tried to get s"

"I know, he--" I started to say My ht up with my brain "Hold on--what?"

"That kid Martin," she squeezed out "I wanted to tell Cate, but he never let h to her"

I don’t knohat it was that rose up inside of me then--surprise, maybe, that I had never once pictured Martin positioned at the center ofVida at every turn, teasing Jude The tiniest flash of jealousy that he had had them, even if it had only been for a feeeks Horror, mostly, that Cate had subjected the in that car with hihatabout it

"I just figured that you would be the sauess"