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“You can’t help her if you’re both behind bars.”

He had a good a point. I swallowed hard as I watched Mr. Halifax and Sophie stop in front of the cops. Why hadn’t Sophie flushed it when I’d told her to? This was such a disaster!

“You said you found drugs on the premises?” the taller cop asked.

Mr. Halifax handed him Sophie’s purse.

“Can you maybe just take it out of the purse?” Sophie asked. “It’s couture.” She smiled politely up to him.

Why was she not freaking out right now? Or running? Or jumping through that window to escape?!

“We’ll need to bring it with us,” he said. “It’s evidence.”

Sophie sighed.

“And are these your drugs, miss?” the cop asked.

I turned to Axel. “I have to do something. Maybe we can cause a distraction so she can run?”

“Mr. Halifax knows her. He’d just give the cops her name.”

“We could kill Mr. Halifax,” RJ said with a shrug.

“Are you insane?” I asked.

“I know a guy that knows a guy.”

“We’re not killing anyone,” Jacob said. “We need to cause a distraction and then threaten Mr. Halifax.”

“Are you thinking blackmail?” RJ asked. “Because I’m thinking blackmail.”

This was such a mess. “I don’t know. But we agree we need a distraction?”

“Definitely.” RJ smiled. “A classic Hunter Hunter Stevens Miller mess around. We could doctor a photo to make it seem like Mr. Halifax slept with Soph. Then blackmail him with it. He’s already been sus this whole semester. I mean, everyone thought he was hooking up with you, Scar. Wait. Better idea. We’ll doctor a naked photo of you with him. Much more believable. Scar, get naked real quick.” RJ pulled out his phone.

“What is wrong with you?” Axel asked.

“What do you mean?” RJ asked. “It’s a classic Hunter Hunter Stevens Miller mess around...”

I didn’t let him finish his sentence this time. “Fire!” I yelled at the top of my lungs. Because it was the first distraction I could think of that didn’t involve me nude. “Fire!”

Everyone turned and stared at me. Where there was no fire. Damn it!

“You really should have consulted me on the plan,” RJ whispered. “More of a Hunter Stevens Miller mess around now, am I right, guys?”

Liam ran over to us. “What is going on? Where’s the fire?”

“Good, it’s back to a Hunter Hunter Stevens Miller mess around,” RJ said. “And there is no fire. Scarlett’s gone rogue and has been kicked out of the plotting. And where the heck have you been?”

“Hooking up with my date in the library.”

Ew. Had I hooked up with Axel a few shelves away from my little brother and his old date? How close had they been exactly? Had I almost seen my brother’s... No. Stop it. Yikes.

“New idea,” I said. “Let’s get Liam’s date arrested for having sex with a minor.”

“Absolutely not,” Liam said.

“But Sophie’s about to go to prison for the rest of her life!”