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“If it weren’t for hio into it A flash of that bathrooh my mind If it weren’t for him and me Guilt stabbedmy knuckles over the spot where the pain radiated fro with his plans back then and it costto let hi lives without consequences

He was h I told hiht had happened to her She didn’t die like he said she did When I finished everything up he blew out a long whistle

“That’s a lot to be taking on, Kill Are you sure about all this? Sure, it’s not going to put you in a bad place? I still don’t understand why you believe anything Allan has to say”

I rubbed rew up on the sa up The three of us were scholarship kids to Havert Prep We’d gone through a lot of the saot there Now, Beth was dead, Allan was a recovering addict, and then there was me I’d fallen in with the rich kids’ crowd, headed by Rhys Thayer, and I watched him destroy my friends one by one

For a while I was cool with hiravitated to hiuy But I saw another side of hi, he wouldn’t be happy until everyone else around hi left Rhys stole Beth fros, then Beth fell into the same trap, but with all Rhys’s money to feed her addiction

Then she died An accident with sleeping pills or sooing on

“I know he’s hiding the truth and I’ure out what it is,” I said, shoving

“Good luck, ain You did that once before and it didn’t turn out so well for you,” he said, slinging his bag over his shoulder Most of the other people had already cleared out Grim headed out after thehblack hair darted past the corner of my eye It was a wo at her Okay, noas intrigued She atching me She was familiar I’d seen her before, but it took me a minute to place her

She’d been at the foundation when Iroo off her seat when I got into the elevator And now she was here at ym That seemed like a bit too er, sliding closer to the edge of the bleachers to see if she’d peek around again My patience was rewarded after a few minutes when she did and I stood only a couple of feet fro spot

“Who are you?” I asked,in the cavernous and now empty court She squeaked and backed up

“What? Me? I’ainst the wall beside the locker room door

“I’m sure you’re someone, sweetheart Who are you and why are you here?” I said, intrigued I’d never been followed before Well, not by a woman I hadn’t slept with Those somehow found a way to hunt me down But she was different She was cute, kind of squirrelly The black horn-riht out the chestnut in her eyes

I looked her up and down I had a feeling her prim and proper clothes covered a nice body, but that didn’t explain why she’d followed me I’d seen her before and I racked my brain to remember where It wasn’t just from the foundation She’d flittered in and out of led to place her, her watch caught my eye It looked simple, but I knew for a fact that it costit? Who was she? She certainly piqued my interest

“I’ a e tactics I plastered on a s strap eased the tiniest a back up a little Delicate Innocent Let’s play

“Okay Let’s just say you weren’t followinghere?”