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I nodded “Got it Sorry”

Elijah looked aze ran up and down ave a s back into the crowd My legs wobbled, and reached out for a nearby tree to steady myself

At leas

t he didn’t tell the others I was here

Then I paused,

Why hadn’t he told theht there, ready to be tortured and humiliated, a sacrificial laht club

And Elijah had kept quiet

Why?

Chapter 9

The second I made it back to my dor my knees up to h he’d only touched me for a minute, so I yanked it off and wrapped a blanket around myself instead

It was close to 1 a out and wired I kneouldn’t be able to sleep, so I sat in the dark and gazed out theuntil I saw figures slowly e back toward the dorms across campus

There hts, by the look of it I saw at least two guys holding a hand to their faces, and one of the was painful I wondered if he was the kid Cole had fought

The four Princes e out of the woods Cole had a tank top on, but the tattoos on his arht Mason clapped him on the back, and Finn and Elijah were deep in conversation None of them looked up at me, but I shrank back into the couch cushions anyway

When there were finally out of sight, I hauled myself off the couch, brushed my teeth, and fell face-first into bed

I slept until almost noon the next day, and as I lay in bed with an arht