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She’s not gonna like this, but if she wants our help, she has to abide by our rules, and we all know how much Scar hates rules.
“The catch is, you stick with us at all times. You can’t be alone, unless we’re using you as bait to draw him out.”
“All times?”
“All times. You’re moving into The Lawless house.”
She laughs, as if this is some sort of joke. “Yeah, right.”
“I’m serious, Scar. If someone’s trying to get to you, it’s not safe for you to stay at the dorms. There’s no cameras, no protection. It has to be this way.”
“So let me get this straight. You freak the fuck out when you see me kissing Jagger and you lose your mind over Neo touching me in class. But you want me to move in with those guys?”
“Well, I’ll be there, too.”
Her weight shifts from one foot to the other. “And that makes it better?”
“Maybe not for you, but it does for me.”
Scar goes quiet, which isn’t like her, and it leads me to believe she’s actually considering it. That is until she spits out, “Nope. Not happening.”
Trekking past me through the snow, she doesn’t stop. Just keeps walking away.
I turn around and shout, “Where are you going?”
“Home!”
Without her knowledge, I follow closely behind, because Scar has a problem with listening. Even after I just told her she’s to be with us at all times, she still wanders off like there isn’t quite possibly a crazy person waiting for her in the woods.
My steps are quiet while her sounds are thunderous, due to her heavy breathing as she huffs and puffs her way back to the dorm.
I’m about ten feet away when someone else appears on the trail. Someone that has her stopping. I step behind a tree and listen to them.
“Where’s Riley?” she asks the guy.
“Just brought her back to your room. Apparently, she regretted her choice of clothes tonight and was freezing her ass off.”
Scar chuckles and says, “I tried to tell her.”
“I’m headed back out for snacks. Care to join me?”
Who the hell is this guy and why are they acting like old friends?
“Actually, I’m pretty tired. I’m gonna head to my room and call it a night.”
“All right. I’ll be outside the library for a while if you wanna talk.”
“Thanks, Elias.”
Elias?Why does that name sound so familiar?
This is the guy Neo said Scar’s been hanging out with. He must be a friend of Riley’s, too, if he walked her back to her dorm.
Scar continues walking whileEliasheads my way. Just as he passes the tree I’m behind, I reach out and grab him by the collar of his coat.
“Whoa. Whoa. Whoa,” he says, hands up in surrender.
I spin him around and push him up against the tree. “Who the fuck are you?”
