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I took the phone out and scrolled through the sent texts, then through the e-ically placed foot and a tiny bit of applied pressure gave me the space I needed

"You haven’t sent theood"

"You psychotic little--"

I didn’t bother listening to the coarse insults that ca out of his mouth

"I’ with creatures a lot bigger and a lot et a new one"

I turned and walked out of the bathroo mistake," one of the boys yelled afteraround "That’s the only kind I make"

CHAPTER 9

Bodie picked me up after school "Body count?" he asked as we pulled past the security gate and out onto the road

"Very funny," I told hinize your true ruthless nature"

I had to remind myself that he didn’t know me He wasn’t here for me "Because my sister is infamous fixer Ivy Kendrick?" I retorted

"No," Bodie replied with a generous roll of his eyes "Because I’hway and then glanced over at me "And Ivy prefers the term consultant"

I would have preferred not to feel like I was the last person in the entire school--if not the DC metro area--to be clued into Ivy’s occupation I would have preferred if she’d asked me, even once, what I wanted before she’d packed upI would have preferred thatrelative not treat me like a fire that needed to be put out, or a situation that needed to be handled

Like a job

"You didn’t answer my question about the body count" Bodie prodded ood could co

"No casualties," I informed him

"But?"

I looked out theso he wouldn’t see the edges of ht about the dumbfounded look on the boys’ faces when I’d confiscated the phone "But what?"

The two of us rode in companionable silence until the car pulled into Ivy’s drive Bodie cut the engine, and I reached for the door handle

"Wait," Bodie ordered sharply He sounded nothing like the man who’d lazily tweaked aze to a dark-colored sedan parked across the street