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“Honestly, they’re worse than a bunch of girls.” Tally chuckles.
“I don’t know what to tell you…”
“You could try the truth?” Abi suggests.
“Really, there’s nothing to tell. It’s just a silly rivalry.”
“He’s an Heir. Nothing is silly where an Heir is concerned. They’ll wear you down until you don’t know which way is up. We should know,” Tally adds.
“Speak for yourself.” Liv glowers.
As I watch them bicker and joke about their boyfriends—about the Heirs of All Hallows’—I realise that perhaps I was wrong about them at first. They’re not the shallow, vapid girls I assumed them to be. Like Keeley and the other Heir chasers.
But I still need to be careful.
“Look,” Olivia says, “Tally and Abi are too scared to ask but I’m not. Was it you?”
And there it is.
The reason I’m sitting here. The reason they invited me to breakfast.
“Me?”
“Come on, you know what I’m talking about. Their cars. Did you do it?”
“Hate to disappoint you, but it wasn’t me.”
She studies me and for a second, I think she’s bought my lie. But then her lip curls with amusement. “Oh, you’re good. I’ll give you that. And it’s admirable, it is. But also stupid. Because once they figure it out. Once Theo can prove it, they’ll ruin you.”
I neither deny nor confirm her accusation. But I do ask, “Why are you telling me all of this?”
“Because”—she glances at Tally and Abi and they nod—“we want to help you.”
20
THEO
“Don’t go,” Raine begs, her small hand wraps around my lower arm, trying to drag me back to her.
I should leave. I shouldn’t have even caved and fucked her. But shit. I can’t fucking regret it.
I’ll never tell her, but I’m pretty sure that was the best shag I’ve ever had.
I fucking know I’ve never come that hard before. Ever.
It was because you’re a dickhead and fucked her bare.
And you’re going to fucking do it again, aren’t you?
I swallow thickly, battling with what I should do with what I already know I’m going to do. “I shouldn’t be here,” I mutter, trying to do the right thing.
Walk away. Pretend it never happened.
You hate her.
She fucked up your car.
Punish her.
