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When he slowly turned to facethrough his eyes Whatever atching, he understood it now, and that filled him with so much fear, it made my heart stop

On screen, Marist sat on the end of the dining table and theher from vieith their black tuxedoed bodies

“What Is This?” I asked

Vance stormed back to the table and slammed the laptop closed, then jaaze darted around, searching for the answer like he’d somehow find it in the air “It was an initiation”

Like that explained it I pulled my chin back “An initiation for what?”

His hts “For Royce to becoaze snapped tome his full attention “It was a really fucked up faet those when you’re about to be seated, and no one ever talks about it”

Ice h to recognize as happening”

It looked like he was coue explanation that a new board member’s ould be subject to board approval, and there was some kind of ceremony for it”

I tensed my hands into fists “And what if the board member is a woman?”

He gave me a dubious look “This tradition started o Wohtened, running a hand down his tie like he could easily wipe so so unseeot rid of it as soon as my father lost his seat”

I didn’t kno to feel about any of this Vance wasn’t a part of whatever fucked up tradition the rest of his family had followed, buthe knew about it, and it was hard to separate him from the association of it I almost wished the video had been a sex tape between him and his stepmother

That seemed somehow less scandalous

I could figure out how to handle this information later and forced myself to move forward “You said Lambert had stuff with you and Alice”