And how did Atreus escape?
I turn my head and look in the other direction, toward the Caruso camp. Aspen and Xavier are sitting next to each other, but neither of them has spoken a word since we came in. Xavier’s been scratching his leg nonstop, and a part of me wants to grab it and make him pause, but he probably needs this to work through his emotions.
I’ve gone numb, and my brain feels so fuzzy. All I can think of is how lonely it must be for her, locked away in that cell, and how we’re going to solve this mess, if there is even anything to solve at this point.
We helped her build her traps. We’re just as much implicated in this as she is.
Are we next?
“There must be something that can be done to speed this up, right?” Nathan barks at the employee at the desk.
“I demand to speak with my daughter,” Lana says.
“I’m sorry, ma’am, but she is an adult and does not require her parents for processing.”
Lana slams her hand on the desk, and the employee is taken aback, but Kai, one of her other lovers, grabs her hand and pulls it off the desk.
“Thank you for assisting us. Please let us know when we can visit Sunny,” he says, and he leads Lana away from the desk.
The woman nods and waltzes off into a room up ahead, leaving us all to ourselves, steaming to ourselves in the wait room.
“Bitch,” Lana mutters.
“There must be something we can do, right?” Cecilia asks.
“Like what? Break her out?” Heath snorts. “Good luck with that.”
Apollo smashes his fist into his own hand. “I’m willing to try.”
“No, absolutely not,” Ares, Apollo’s dad, interjects.
Apollo rolls his eyes. “Boring.”
“The police have already arrested her,” Caleb, Heath’s dad, says. “Which means they’ve got the evidence.”
“Bullshit,” Nathan barks. “What evidence?”
“They raided her room,” Aspen suddenly says, and everyone looks at her. “Some of my friends saw them go in there.”
“Shit,” Elliot mutters to himself. “It must be the phone, right? Oh God, I’m gonna get implicated.” He buries his face in his hands.
“It’s gonna be okay,” his dad says, rubbing his back.
“What is she being accused of again?” Melody asks.
“Murder,” Silas fills in before anyone else can. “Multiple. And people say it happened at school too.”
“Do you think she really did it?” my mom, Crystal, asks.
“Wouldn’t surprise me,” Xavier’s mom, Penelope, replies. “She erased my men like they were just meat bags in her way last year.”
Lana shoots darts from her eyes. “If you hadn’t sent them, they wouldn’t have died.”
“Don’t start fighting again. Not now, please,” Alistair says, groaning out loud.
“He’s right. We have to keep our heads together,” Felix says, ruminating from a corner.
“Why didn’t you intervene?” Nathan barks at him. “You’re the fucking dean. You should’ve stopped her.”
