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I sighed, sinking down next to Elijah “I don’t suppose you’ve ever heard the expression ‘live and let live’?”

His answering grin was feral “Princess, in our world, that’s how predators beco Cole’s laptop farther down the couch so he could sit too “And I told you We’ve got people handling the party prep Whichout with us for the next few hours”

“Ugh That sounds awful,” I teased, and he squeezedme yelp and jump

We settled into an easy conversation about our su he’d takehe’d be a better teacher, but aze drifted back to the laptop as we spoke

This wasn’t the first tie soed them in some way They’d done shit like this all year—hell, they’d done it to ht with me

It was hard to find any way to defend Evan Baxter’s dad, but I still wasn’t sure if that justified what they’d done to hih he’d arguably deserved it, why did they have to be the ones to e of that?

It was like a serial killer who only kills bad guys An extreray moral area

But maybe…

Maybe it was possible for theed their behavior toward me They even see friends, I could help talk them out of the crazier schemes they hatched

Mason had insisted I was a Royal now, just like them

I had the sae they did

So ood

Chapter 24

Adena did coaze zeroed onlike a snarl twisted her lips She waited for the perfect opportunity, and as soon as she saw an opening, she took it, pretending to bump into me so she could spill a Solo cup full of red wine all over my pale yellow dress

She apologized in a falsely sweet voice, but I just shoved past her and walked out, sick to death of her bullshit Elijah caught up to me on the way back to my dored clothes—and by the time we returned to Clarendon, Adena was nowhere to be seen