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Setting my jaw, I glowered around my office, at the door to my bathroom, at the sunlight beaming through the windows, at the blast of sky and clouds visible through the glass.
I couldn’t leave anything to speculation or chance, not when Ella’s wellbeing and safety was on the line.
Me: I’m going to get to the bottom of this.
The only logical action was to contact Eudora Wilson directly, so I sent a message to Clary to get ahold of Eudora Wilson from Sigma Phi Rho. Then I texted Maddox and Duncan.
I didn’t bother explaining everything again. I could do that in person.
Me: Can you guys meet at Ever After in about an hour or so?
I waited, tapping my fingers on the screen.
At length, their replies came through.
Duncan: Your timing isterrible.
Maddox: I can be there. What’s up?
Sweet. That was one thing about the frat. I’d made friendships there that had lasted longer than any others I’d had. I didn’t have time to wonder what Duncan was in the middle of that I’d interrupted.
Me: It’s about The Pact.
Duncan: I was done with that years ago.
Me: Me, too. But Will isn’t. I think he’s targeted Ella’s reputation. She could go to jail if I can’t clear her name. Can you come?
…
…
Maddox: You know I’ll be there.
Duncan: Count me in too.
I did a victory fist with my phone in hand. These guys were the best.
I dialed Ella’s number next. We’d been trying to keep a low profile, but I not only wanted her in on what we’d been discussing, I wanted her as close to me as possible.
I wanted her safe.
It was time to find this imbecile Pris had met with. It was time to clear Ella’s name.
Just as long as nothing else happened before she got here.
THIRTY-FOUR
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Hawk’s urgencyduring our phone call unsettled me. He hadn’t reached out to me like that in a few days—we’d only been texting. But to have him call me out of the blue, to have him insist I be with him at his office instead of the distance he’d insisted on beforehand?
Something had him spooked. What had changed?
I’d been out window shopping with Addie, scoping out job openings, and we’d bumped into Grammy at her new job as a greeter at Ever After on Seventeenth Street. Apparently, though it had started as a seasonal position, she liked it so much she wanted to keep it up.
I suspected that decision had something to do with the free samples.
I’d never seen Hawk’s personal vehicle before, but I should have known it would be sleek and classy. He pulled up in front of the sweet shoppe in a velvet black Jaguar.
