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“Are you lost, Sinclair?” Levi hissed. “Get your ass up and walk away.”
“Oh, I will. Trust me, I don’t want to be near you three. My skin crawls just looking at you. I’m here because there’s something you need to know.”
Wesley rose from his seat. I bet he thought he was intimidating towering over me. “There’s nothing you’ve got to say that we need to hear, bitch. Get—”
Rolling my eyes, I flapped a hand in his face. “Sit down and shut up. The person who killed Ashton Scott will definitely want to hear this, and yes...” I grinned as Wesley paled. “I know it was one of you.”
Levi’s face wiped blank. “What are you talking about? If you came here to spin bullshit, we’re not interested.”
“Again,” I snapped. “Shut up. I’m not finished.”
I made a show of taking a deep breath and continued. “Anyway, one of you killed Ashton because you thought he turned against your little brotherhood. Welp, he didn’t. He was framed.” I beamed. “By me.”
“What?” Owen hissed, face crumpling.
“Oh, yeah. That was all me. I hung you from the ceiling, Chicken Penis. I poisoned Wesley. I spread those truth lists. And I framed Ashton for all of it.” The words dropped from my lips so easily, I could’ve been talking about my last English assignment. “I was hoping one, or all, of you would turn on that filthy rapist, and wow! You did big-time.”
“You’re lying,” Levi said, his voice flat. “You wouldn’t admit any of this if it was true. You’re trying to manipulate us.”
“No manipulation. No games. No tricks. I’m coming right out and telling you so that from now on, we understand each other.” My smile wiped away. “You underestimated Winter and the people who loved her. It hasn’t even been a month, and I’ve destroyed your reputations, your standing among the Royals, and had one of you put in the ground. I bet you didn’t see this coming when you took those dares for the T.O.D. Club.”
Wesley dropped hard in his seat. “How do you know about the c—?”
“Shut up, Wesley!” Levi barked.
I cocked a brow. “Why are you yelling at him? I know you disgusting, scuttling roaches took dares and high prizes to make Winter’s life hell, then you found the person behind them and squeezed them for more.”
Owen’s and Wesley’s expressions weren’t nearly so cool. Their eyes darted around, faces cycling through a hundred emotions. But I looked at Levi.
Only at Levi.
“Here’s how it’s going to work,” I said, laying out the first part of my new plan. The one I didn’t tell the guys about because they would’ve tried to stop me. “You three have to pay for what you did to her. That’s just how it has to be. The attacks will keep coming. I’ll continue ruining your lives until you have nothing and no one left, then, I’ll kill you.”
Levi didn’t blink.
“But—and here’s where I show you mercy that you never showed Winter—whichever one of you comes to me first and tells me who turned you on Winter and why, you’ll get to live. Your life,” I forced through clenched teeth. “That’s more than you left my sister.”
I rose. “That special offer goes to only one of you, so be quick. If there’s one thing you know about each other, it’s that you three look out for your own self-interests.”
Wesley got up. “Sinclair—”
His hand flashed. Gripping his shoulder, Levi slowly but firmly returned Wesley to his seat. “You’re bluffing. Someone came after us. Maybe it wasn’t Ashton, but it sure as hell wasn’t you. You aren’t strong enough to hang Owen from the ceiling. And you’re not smart enough to plan all those attacks. But I will give you credit,” he said, lips stretching across that horrible face. “There’s a shred of cunning in you that has you sitting here, bold as shit, trying to turn someone’s plot to your advantage. It’s cute, but it’s not going to work.
“Get up and walk away, Sinclair. The smell of Dreg so early in the morning is putting me off my breakfast.”
“He knows I’m not lying.” I gazed at Levi but spoke to the others. “He barely hid his flinch when I said T.O.D. Club. There’s one reason he wants you to think I’m lying. If I’m willing to do what I say, then he won’t risk either one of you getting to me first.”
Owen forced a laugh. “Forget him. I know you’re lying. What kind of idiot would admit all of this to our face? We’ll just go to the cops.”
“With what proof? There’ll never be any evidence. I mean... I killed Ashton Scott without touching the knife.” Laughing, I turned my back, striding away.
I felt no small amount of pleasure at seeing Saylor hissing at a wide-eyed, headshaking, hand-waving Gabriella.
My plan was still unfolding. Truthfully, I didn’t know all that I was going to do, but I did know one thing. The Rogues and I were stronger together. All of their talents combined with my ruthlessness made us a hard enemy to beat.
