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My head snapped down and I stared at her “Why in the hell would she do that? You’re out of your minds”

LJ alent straight to Alexis whenever anything rong If it was , his knee-jerk conclusion was always Alexis, but that wasn’t the case—well, maybe fifty percent of the time

“You didn’t see the way she was looking at Jules the two times I’ve seen them meet?”

“She has a hard ti them”

“She also looked like if she had a voodoo doll of Jules, Jules would definitely have been in trouble”

“Alexis would never do so like that to me She’d never hurt me like that Look at you and LJ You ju to chest bump me away Would you hurt him like that? You’re best friends Me and Alexis are family”

“Then how’d they find out the letter was Jules’s?”

So Jules had mentioned about the recipes…

“They put up her handwriting on each one of the web shows And if a letter fell out of my backpack, maybe someone matched it up that way It doesn’t have to be Alexis’s fault every ti She’s my sister and she wouldn’t do that toShe wouldn’t hurtthat to Jules, exposing her private thoughts toAlexis had ever pulled before That bordered on unforgivable I didn’t haveone of them would kill me

LJ and Marisa looked at each other again like they were speaking some kind of telepathic twin speak and shook their heads “I hope you’re right, man

” LJ squeezedback athe could walk it off

No matter how these letters were released, they were out in the world and I’d deal with the consequences TLG was Jules All those conflicted feelings I’d had about liking Jules when TLG and I were still writing, keeping her at arth not only because of Nix, but because I didn’t want to betray TLG—I should’ve been pissed off I should’ve wanted to yell at her for lying toin my mind, I couldn’t keep the smile off my face

I’d found TLG She hadn’t just droppedfor lasses from her favorite spot with her head on my chest She’d been in my bed She’d been too shy to tell me it was her She was real and in the flesh—and had just broken up with me

But I wasn’t going to go down easy

The crap Jules was telling herself about all this, the insecurities she’d been good at hiding and slowly overcoainst I had twenty-two years of thatto let her push me away because she was scared