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“You’re talking about Becca?” My fists clenched when she nodded slowly. “The shit with Lilly and Peters?”
“It was a game.”
“A game? Are you fucking kidding me? You’re sick, Kendall. You know that, right?”
“Maybe. Maybe not.” Her shoulders shrugged like it wasn’t important. Like it wasn’t people’s lives she was toying with. Their feelings. Their futures.
“It’s not like they all didn’t deserve it. It’s been a long time coming.”
Her eyes blazed with indignation as her mask slid back into place.Thiswas the Kendall I knew.
“You set them up, didn’t you? Lilly and Jay? Peters?”
“You should be careful asking questions you might not want the answers to,” she snarled. “Think about it… you know it’s in there somewhere. You just don’t want to believe it.”
Did she mean…? No, it wasn’t possible. Becca wouldn’t. She was their friend.
“She wouldn’t.”
“Oh, but she would. Everyone has a price, Evan, even your precious little Becca.”
What the hell?
“She’s not like us, Evan. She doesn’t belong here. Did you know her family had money, a lot of fucking money? They should have never come here.”
Of course, I knew. Everyone knew. Kendall made sure of that when she plastered photos of Becca’s old life all over the hallways at school. But what did this have to do with right now? She was talking in riddles.
“You’re not making sense. Her dad lost his job. He had a friend here. They came for work.”
Kendall’s mouth pressed into a thin line as she shook her head from side to side. “It’s a lie, Evan. They came here because they couldn’t stay in Montecito any longer because it wasn’t safe.”
“Safe. What the fuck are you talking about?”
This was the vindictive bitch I knew Kendall to be, spinning lies and manipulating the truth to work in her favor.
“Becca did something, Evan. She did something bad.”
“Stop.” I didn’t want to hear this. I didn’t want to hear the words. I’d known Becca was running from something, but it never occurred to me that she was running from herself. “I don’t want to hear it. Not from you. Where is she, Kendall? What did you do?”
Her eyes flickered with indecision, her hard mask slipping again, revealing the Kendall I found when I first entered the room.
“It wasn’t me. I played her friends and forced her to play the game, but this wasn’t me. You have to believe me, Evan. He’s out of control. I realize that now. He’s sick, and I… and I don’t know what to do.”
He?
Who the fuck was she talking about? The person who sent the flowers? Was there another guy on the scene? Someone chasing after Becca?
“Kendall,” I growled, feeling the muscles in my neck strain against the skin. “What the fuck is going on?”
For the first time in my life, I witnessed Kendall cry. It was just one tear. The lone teardrop slid down her face, landing on her leg. She swiped a thumb over her eye and met my heavy stare. “I fucked up, Evan. I think I really fucked up.”
CHAPTER31
BECCA
My eyes flickered open,straining against the darkness, and I touched a hand to the back of my head. Pain shot through my skull, and I groaned.
“I wondered when you were going to wake up.”
