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I’d heard hi into the walls, so wherever he lay He reuy was funnier Smarter, too

My dad was dumb

So was Brooke

So was I

If we hadn’t been, , but…

The stretcher ca it into her room

I saw the looks, knehat they hispering about They didn’t need to whisper

Yes We’d all been so dumb

We hadn’t been watching enough

Then again, no one had been

I jerked awake and had no idea where I was

I freaked, to put it mildly

I lashed out, kicking and screaht ht flicked on

For a ht I was so to me

“Calm the fuck dooman”

Woman Not Girl

Not irl

It was Raize

I sagged in relief I’d registered it was Raize before he even spoke I just couldn’t get my brain to communicate with my body I blinked up at hi in the doorway, his hand still on the light switch Jake was behind hi at me

Raize shot off ofsweatpants, and they dipped seriously low, deliciously low—and the guy was ripped He had the whole penis-landing-stripthere Follow it down and…yeah

“Where are we?” I asked as I checkedI was in a tank top and underwear Note to self: keep the blankets over s I looked around and realized ere in what seemed like a nice hotel room There was a loveseat in the corner A dresser A desk A nice television

This was an actual hotel room

I saw the blanket on the floor by the loveseat

Raize raked a hand through his hair, his eyes tired, and went to the loveseat He bent down, picked up the blanket, and stretched out “Turn the lights off Everyone go back to bed I need at least one more hour of sleep before we hit the road”

Cavers gestured to e later today”

I looked down Right Because I’d been shot

He’d bandaged me before

How long had I been sleeping?

Cavers stepped back into their room, but Jake remained in the doorway

“You okay?” he asked me

Warh me, but then I remembered his phone call to Carloni

“I’ll work her”

I shoved that warht out of my ass and said flatly, “I’m fine”

He frowned, but I rolled over, giving him my back as I pulled the blanket up