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Wrong change of subject "I’ that isn’t the question you were going to ask"

No, none of this is the conversation I planned on having I rub my forehead and push forward "How bad was it when that picture of you was posted on Bragger?"

Violet eases her foot off the gas and the car slows froe to look over at her and she ony I felt when Kyle sat across from me in the library "How bad is the picture they have of you?" she asks

My throat tightens as the urge to share and the self-preservation to keep this secret quiet wages ithin o white on the wheel "Those assholes never knohen to stop, do they? I mean, me? I walked into that ?"

"I went to Shamrock’s I drank and I ended up outside with Razor and so into , but the picture looks ato" My chest constricts and my eyes burn

"Label you a whore," she finishes forto post it and label you a whore"

Violet slah h this torossiped about her for as long as I can re to lie I knew you were being blackmailed Not because Razor told me, but because Razor asked about the picture taken of me"

My eyes widen and she waves ether He didn’t tell ue, I bet he hasn’t said anything to anyone else And, by the way, it’s in direct violation of club rules for him to keep a secret like this, but that’s neither here nor there Tellblack h venoh my blood

"Was he the one that posted the picture of you?"

"No Soive in and look what happened to iven in to keep e was already done"

"What was it like?" I whisper, almost terrified of the truth "When the picture went up?"

Violet’s expression clouds over "Awful So awful I considered if life orth living So awful that soet out of bed So awful that I have ain"

It takes several heartbeats to ingest her honesty She’s painting the horrible future that I’ve created into help He’ll fix this for both of us"

She yanks out a chain around her neck that had been hidden by her shirt, and she fingers a silver cross The chars to a man "Computers?"

"Yes"