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Blurb:

Some stars fall Others disappear

My sister is gone and no one seeive a sht about that but s about theh all erous boy with the green eyes ultiht I did If I had

I would have run sooner

Warning: This eneh school ro The book is not a standalone and is book two in a four-part series of full-length novels Royal Prinze is the only hero of this tale good luck getting him to share

One

December

I spent ho in a sheriff’s office whenfucked up at after-parties I spentalone, or at least, it felt that way Words flittered around edy They circulated around me like a cyclone of leaves and debris, but they weren’t forabout oing on, sitting behind glass and sipping tea with more than an unsettled stoht, my sister’s pretty dress dirty froot vomit on it

God…

Rosanna had brought e of clothes to the sheriff’s office, as well as the tea She’d been hell-bent on bringinganywhere

None of us would before we could find out more about my sister

Dad was there too, of course, either on his cell phone or yelling at cops He wanted to knohat the fuck was going on and why so my sister’s death when he’d just been called down to the sheriff’s office about it He wanted answers, and when he wasn’t getting theh, he called people He called his people while I sat behind glass with Rosanna She had her ar me armth, but that didn’t matter I was alone here

I didn’t even have Royal

At hoht, and LJ took ency Dad had actually sent Hubert to get hts alone, and to be with fa that, and I wasn’t either He and the others wanted answers just as much as I did and they were family They were my sister’s fame this wasn’t real and it couldn’t be He’d heard from my sister He’d heard from her and this was all just some fucked-up h None of us could, and the moment we arrived at the sheriff’s office, Royal fired words at the to hold him back while he demanded the truth about my sister Eventually, they separated hi with hied to cal Royal and the boys to come speak with him privately in his office They could ask their questions, but they wouldn’t be doing so in their current manner at the busy precinct

“I’ure this out,” Royal’d said to ht with so many emotions Tie undone and blond hair strewn, he had a horror behind his lustrous green eyes He had a terror I hadn’t wanted to see It was different on hin, and twisted my stomach even more than it already was

Royal left after that, left with the sheriff and the rest of the boys, and I hadn’t gotten to see him after that He disappeared into the valley of cops and talk, and Iroo while others talked around , the man beet red with threats on his lips In the past, he’d acted so cold about all things Paige, even me for a time, but all that obviously wasn’t true My dad cared He didn’t want his kid dead any lass

I saw that when the news hit

What newsHe’d heard soo over to that glass The cop he’d been speaking to had a walkie-talkie in his hands, the officer’s face grave, and my dad’s had bled of all color He physically paled after the officer told hi

I later found out it’d been the truth

I lay inafter a round of fresh tears I drenchedbeside me She didn’t like when I was upset, my little Labrador puppy worried about me and she should be She should worry I orried too as I was coet out of this bed after this very oing downstate

He had to identify my sister’s body

His words were still in lass when he finally ca like he had to? For one and that cold exterior returned My hard-ass father was before s and truths I didn’t want to hear He told irl who’d lost her life beneath a train She’d been dragged, only recently discovered by a maintenance creorker, and her story leaked the irl had a history wi