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The reality is, I’m not going to forget what I just did for a long, long time.
14
Mia
“You’re alive.” Annabel smirks at me as I open the door wider and let her in.
“I’m so sorry.”
“Relax, I’ve accepted my fate as an outsider.”
“Bel, it isn’t like that—”
“Yeah, Mia. It is.” She kicks off her pumps and plops herself on my bed. “But you’re my best friend, so I’m willing to overlook the fact that you’re practically one of them now.”
“If it’s any consolation, I hate it.” I sit down and nudge her shoulder with mine.
“Well, I have news.” Her eyes light up. “Jared Clifton asked me out on a date.”
“Jared? The guy from the party?” It had been the one at the beginning of the semester.
“Yep. He took me to that cute little diner downtown, you know the one with the jukebox, and then we went to a drive-in movie just outside town.”
“Sounds nice.” Jealousy snakes through me.
“It was. I’m seeing him again tomorrow.”
“Good for you, Bel.” I give her a thin smile.
“What about you? How’s Cade?”
“As much an asshole as ever,” I grumble.
“It can’t be that bad… he’s so freaking hot.”
“Trust me, his good looks do not balance out his shitty personality.”
“What did you do all weekend?”
“There was a party… it was—”
“Insiders only, got it.” Dejection swirls in her eyes, and I hate it. I hate that this is causing such a rift between me and my only true friend. I mean, I like to think of Sasha as a friend too now, but she’s one of them. It isn’t the same. Our paths would never have crossed if it wasn’t for the Eligere.
“You didn’t miss much,” I quickly add. “Then I hung out some with Sasha.”
“And Bexley?”
“What about him?” I shrug.
“Well, what’s happening there?”
“Nothing. It’s over.”
“But—”
“No buts, Bel. It’s too risky.” Memories of Bexley’s hands on me, his lips tracing my skin and branding me as he fucked me on the counter fill my mind. My body heats, remembering how good it felt… how good he felt.
“Mia?”
