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It’s also not Cullen.
It’s Maz.
“Maz,” I say. “What are you doing here? Are you following me?”
Maz walks toward me.“Jaci, I have to show you something…”
Chapter 66
“Maz, what’s going on?” I ask.
“I’m going to show you what’s going on,” she says. “And tell you. I can get into trouble for this, okay?”
“Trouble? How? Why?”
“Jaci, I’m aThorn,” Maz says. “I have a role here. I’m going to overstep what I’m allowed to do. For you. Seeing you running around campus, panicking over Archer… it’s not going to work. It’s not going to help a thing.”
“Maz, I heard…”
I stop talking and swallow hard.
Now I’m torn.
If I should tell her what I heard Laz say or not.
Maz grabs my hands. “I know.”
“You know? What do you know?”
“You can tell me, Jaci,” Maz whispers. “We’re best friends, right? At least I thought we were.”
“We are,” I say. “This is serious though.”
“I know it’s serious.”
“I heard he’s going to be killed,” I whisper.
I sayheso I don’t worry about saying a name.
But Maz knows who I’m talking about.
Of course she does.
“Just come for a ride with me, Jaci,” Maz says. “Then you’ll understand everything that’s going on right now.”
“Maz, I don’t have time for games,” I say. “I’m so sick of everyone talking like it’s a fucking puzzle. Why can’t anyone just say what’s happening?”
“Fine, Jaci,” Maz says. “You want me to just say it?”
“Yes!” I cried out into the cold, autumn night.
Maz stares me in the eyes.“Archer isn’t on campus anymore.”
Isit in the passenger seat of Maz’s luxury SUV.
The lights on the dashboard glow a comfortable red and blue.
The vehicle drives so smooth and stealthy.
