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Riven frowns. “Wait—”
“No,” Cole snaps, leaving the room. “Off.”
I x out of the clip, checking the rest of the page, and feel myself go cold as I see the number of views on the video. Oh my God.
Riv pulls off his glasses and rubs his eyes. “She said someone used her,” he says quietly. “Remember? The first night we slept with her.”
“Apparently,someoneis the whole bloody internet,” I get out through gritted teeth. “She’s hit the trending page.” I guess after she got into the news, the video must have blown up. I scroll down to the comments.
Heard u r a teacher. Ur next video should be u spanking urself with a ruler in a schoolgirl costume
Came here from the express article, holy shit didnt expect an ass like that.
I’d go to town on those tits you dirty little slut
I have to look away as nausea rises in my throat.God.How long has she been putting up with this? I check the upload date. The video was only released about a week before we met her. Everything starts falling into place. Someone posted this video of her online and sent it to the faculty of her school. It went viral after a bunch of news sites reported on the story. She packed a bag and just left.
“She said she had an ex manipulate her to stay with him,” I remember. “Do you thinkhe—”
The colour drops out of Riven’s face. He stands, but before he can go find her, Cole reappears in the doorway.
“You fucking idiot,” he snarls. “You.Fucking. Idiot.”
“Where is she?” Riven asks quietly.
Cole doesn’t say anything. Just slaps a piece of paper onto the table and storms towards the front door. He starts rooting through the coats. Riven doesn’t move, so I pick it up to read aloud.
“Cole, Eli, and Riven. I just wanted to say sorry. I’m sorry for lying to you. None of you deserved it. You’ve all been so kind, and I took advantage of that. You three saved my life, and the last few weeks have helped me more than you can understand.
Pretty much everything I told you about myself was a lie. Where I lived, where I worked, why I’m here. My name. I really never meant to hurt any of you. But I broke all of your trust, and that was an awful thing to do. I’m going to catch the next flight back home.
I’m so, so, so sorry,
Daisy.”
I put the paper down. Silence fills the room.
“No,” Riven says. His voice is low. “No.”
I turn to look out of the window. The storm has hit us full force. The wind is screeching, snow is falling so thickly all I can make out is white.
I can’t speak. My heart is thumping out of my chest.
“Her coat, wallet and shoes are gone,” Cole says, stamping towards us. “How long ago did she leave?”
“I don’t know. I—I didn’t see her going.”
“She obviously left in a hurry. She didn’t take any of her things.” Cole’s blue eyes burn. “When did you fight with her?”
“I guess… thirty minutes ago?”
I close my eyes. She’s dead. There’s no way she’ll have made it to the village in time. And there’s no way she’ll survive in the blizzard for that long. She would’ve gotten caught in the storm before she even got to the road.
She’s dead.
Riven surges to his feet and heads to the front door. “I’m going to find her.” He grabs his coat from the peg and shrugs it on, his hands fumbling with the buttons.
“No.” Cole pushes him back. “You’d be useless. Stay here in case she comes back.” He pulls on his own boots. “Eli, where are my survival packs?”
