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“Holy shit” I blinked, staring atthem “That’s insane”

“No argu “Now leaveto study”

Chapter 11

I passed the English Lit test

Barely

It was short answer for I’d shoved into ht before felt like a jumbled mess as I tried to spew it out in somewhat coherent sentences

Mason finished early and leaned back in his desk, legs spread wide in a casual stance, long fingers playing over the silk of his tie as he watched htful more than malicious, but I’d learned not to trust his expressions Usually when his face was the softest, that hen he was about unleash the most cruelty

But I passed I didn’t let him or Adena win

All my classes ra it easy on us for the first ear before Halloween rolled around

On Halloween, I went to a party with Leah I didn’t want to, but she talked me into it—mostly because I’d accidentally let slip that I was a sucker for dressing up I loved costuotten to celebrate Halloween in years

The party was off-campus, at a luxurious mansion in the hills outside of Roseland An enor the town in the distance, and the giant house was full of girls dressed as slutty versions of various characters and guys drinking from red Solo cups

Adena and Mason got into another fight, and even though I tried to stay out of it, she didn’t need er on me After Mason stormed off, she tripped me by the pool and shoved hed at ht be able to salvage if I got it out of the water quick enough

No such fucking luck

Leah—who’d been my ride—offered to ditch the party early and drive o in the first place, but I couldn’t really beto talk s, if I holed up in my room forever, the Princes and everyone else would think they’d won

And they hadn’t