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Yeah? Tell that to your fucking friend

I don’t say it out loud though, because I’d rather gouge my own eyes out than admit that these hts and my life in just a few days has me completely unnerved

Maybe Marcus can tell what I’lance at his friend “Speak for yourself”

The blond guy rolls his eyes Then he catches htly in one hand “I’m Theo, by the way”

Ryland ust in his throat, as if just by introducing himself to me, Theo’s made some kind of monumental mistake

It pissesasshole acts like he hates me, like he’d rather be anywhere else but in my presence, yet he’s part of the sa me He openly admitted to it the other day

And now he’s acting like it’sfault? Like I asked for this somehow?

I gripI could wrap both arms around myself I feel like I need the protection, the extra layer of armor around these men All three of theh for different reasons

“So what are you all doing here?” I ask, frustration giving a blunt edge toaround to followin the shadows?”

“Yes” Marcus shrugs It’s almost a dare

“You know I could call the cops on you,” I shoot back

His eyebroitch just slightly “Are you going to?”

Fuck No, of course I’h about how shit works to realize that it probably wouldn’t do any good And second of all, I don’t exactly have a great track record with copsI want to do is draw attention to myself in any hen it comes to the police

Marcus does that annoying as fuck thing where he seems to hear all the words I refuse to say despite the fact that I never utter theht”

“You’re safer with us watching over you than you’d ever be with the cops anyway,” Theo adds, the sa to convince ot three stalkers “The cops couldn’t have saved you the other night And even if you reported it afterward, I think we all know they wouldn’t have done shit”