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ALLIE
“Idon’t think you want to do that, Harbor,” Principal Vaughn said.
Just as he was about to walk out the door with Imani and me, Jace stopped. “And why’s that, Vaughn?” he asked through clenched teeth.
He turned his entire rigid body around, and I scooted closer to Imani, wrapping my arms around hers.
Vaughn glanced at me, his gaze flickering down my body. I felt so exposed, too exposed around him. He had seen me naked. If he had the audacity to post all those pictures around the school, then he had probably jerked off to the damn videos over and over and over again.
It was disgusting. I felt violated.
Principal Vaughn yanked himself out of Poison’s grasp and straightened out his suit. “How was your father’s vacation?” he asked Jace, rocking back on his heels and clasping his hands behind his back. “He was gone for longer than expected, wasn’t he?”
Jace tensed and clenched his jaw. “What do you care?”
Vaughn grinned like a maniac with his crooked yellow teeth. “He called me this morning and asked what happened when he was gone. I mentioned that there were some interesting things that I found while he was out.”
I tensed up at the thought of Vaughn showing Harlan everything we had done in the locker room and telling him about Jace hitting Carter. Harlan had probably paid for the information and paid for Vaughn to make things up about Jace. If he found out and kicked Jace out, I’d be left in the house with Mom and Harlan. Alone.
“He’s bluffing,” I said, swallowing my nerves and stepping forward. “He hasn’t told Harlan anything yet because Harlan hasn’t paid him. Has he?”
Vaughn cleared his throat and scowled at me. “That doesn’t mean that I won’t tell him.”
Vaughn took a threatening step toward Jace. Poison looked at Vaughn, then looked back at Jace to see how he’d react.
Vaughn crossed his arms. “If you leave school today, I will tell your father everything that has been going on with you, so I can watch Redwood’s notorious Jace Harbor fall into oblivion and lose out on all his chances of making it big, and then I get to get off to the videos of his girlfriend.”
Overcome with rage, I lunged forward to hit him myself. How dare he even threaten that! He should’ve been six feet under already for even suggesting such a thing and for everything he had done to the girls and boys here.
Before I could make impact, Kai caught my wrist to hold me back, and Jace had Vaughn shoved hard against the wall.
“You won’t fucking do a thing,” Jace said through clenched teeth, brown eyes wide in fury. “I will fucking kill you for even thinking about touching her.”
Though I wanted to see Vaughn dead, Jace couldn’t do it here or now. Harlanwould find out that Jace had killed our principal on school grounds and send him away for good.
I wrapped my arms around Jace and tugged him off. “Jace, please, stop.”
When I finally pulled Jace off Principal Vaughn, Vaughn straightened out his clothes again and smiled.
“Your father is looking into you right now, Harbor,” Vaughn said. “I won’t tell him anything I know if you all keep your mouth shut, or I can tell him that you’ve been fucking your sister on school grounds and getting into fights in the locker room.”
“You don’t have proof,” Kai said. “You can’t show him proof without him knowing how fucking perverted you are.”
“That’s where you’re wrong,” Vaughn said. “Mr. Harbor doesn’t need any evidence. He has money, and he has me as a witness. All he needs to do is slide some money into some people’s hands, and everything will be taken care of.”
Jace tensed and pressed his lips together. It was true. Harlan had done the same thing with Jace’s mother, had gotten rid of her like it was nothing, pushed everything under the rug and bribed people with millions of dollars.
It was fucking sick.
“So, Jace, what’s it going to be?” Vaughn said, arching a brow. “Are you going to keep this quiet? Or do you want me to tell your father everything, so he can toss you in jail and I can keep your sister for myself?”
It was an impossible decision that Jace would never be able to make.
Jace growled at him, grabbed my hand, and tugged me toward the door. “Don’t say anything to my father,” he said and walked out into the hallway toward my second period class, giving me his full attention now. “We’re staying here for now. It’s the only place that’s safe. As soon as school ends, meet me by my car. We’ll go home once I know my dad is gone. Don’t leave with anyone.”
I furrowed my brows. “We’re just going to let him continue to video innocent people?”
Jace pressed his lips together, flared his nostrils, and looked down. “My dad is far more of a threat than Vaughn. Let me take care of him, and then we can take Vaughn down along with the rest of Redwood’s most corrupt.” He brushed some hair out of my face. “Okay?”
