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"Why don’t you call Mason or Logan?" She sounded so sed "I don’t know It wouldn’t be fun with thes to do after school, like their first basketball practice

"Oh"

"So will you come?" I kept my eyes closed and waited

"It’s the new house close to the Kades, right?"

Why wasn’t I surprised she had known that? I gripped the phone tighter and grinned into it "Yes, that one My car’s in the driveway It has the red gate"

"I know! I’ll be there quick" She hung up, sounding in a breathless excitement like I’d known her to be so many other tiirl was going to killto do with o that her fairytale hero had been using her to get to me and Becky ceased to exist fro after that about Mason andto be friends when they’d been the ones gossiping behind my back and others who decided they wanted to killwithbefore s to ht address before I opened the door to Becky She looked up and gave tails that were low on her head, and she had her hands clasped together

"Hi"

I grinned I was just glad she’d shown up "Hey" And I opened the door wider "Corinned but stepped in and started to swivel her head around "This place is gorgeous, Sam I can’t believe it"

"Well," I felt so aard "My bio dad is a senior partner in his law firuess…" I spreadlike this"

She went fro roo androom with red couches She walked past a piano placed in an open area by a s room and patio room Both were extensions froer than the Kade mansion?"

"No"

"Really?" Her awestruck tone had come back

"I er or not?" She pinned aze and then relinquished, "No, it’s not, but it’s lanced under her eyelids at me before she looked away "I wouldn’t know You never invited ue I only knew one other person that’d been invited inside, and I wasn’t going to start any dra that I knew had hurt her, but I gave her a s her that she hadn’t made the short list to be allowed inside That conversation wouldn’t end well