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“Why did she come back?” Wes asks.
Lev holds his finger to his lips, silencing us as he walks the room, only stopping each time he hears a beep from the device in his hand. Once he’s finished, he faces us. “She planted three devices in this room.”
“How the fuck does she keep sneaking spyware in here?” I demand.
“Since we’re no longer allowing her entry to the Fraternitas or our houses, the country club offices aren’t as secure, making it easier to bypass security. But I have an idea,” Lev states.
“What is it?” Wes grumbles.
Lev motions for us to follow him and stay silent. We walk down the hall to the private elevators. He scans his handprint and enters his code. Once we’re safely inside, he speaks. “We play along and give Sam what she wants.”
His statement is met with a chorus of vitriol from all of us at once.
“Fuck no!”
“Absolutely the fuck not!”
“Have you lost your goddamn mind?”
“What the hell is wrong with you?”
Lev holds his palms up. “Hold on to your nuts. Give me a second to explain.”
“This better be fucking life-altering,” I mutter as the elevator door slides open, and we step out, heading for the SCIF. We only use this room when we have extremely sensitive documents or conversations that need to happen, and the Fraternitas isn’t an option.
We enter our entry codes and scan our pupils for entry one by one. This room doesn’t allow any visitors—Heirs only.
“Out with it. What’s this plan?” Sebastian inquires once we’re all seated.
Lev explains his earlier statement in more detail, and for the first time in weeks, we feel like there’s hope. So, for the next three hours, we devise a plan.
“I’ll do it. It’ll be the most believable if it’s me. She expects this from me,” Wes volunteers, and I feel bad because his part in this will be one of the hardest. But the truth is we’ll all have hell to pay once this is over—once we can safely claim her as ours.
Once plans are outlined, and tasks have been assigned, I voice the unspoken question stifling the air in the room. “Will she forgive us for what we have to do?”
It hangs like an oppressive weight on a fraying rope before Wes answers, “We’ll have to fight like hell to ensure she does.”
“Is everything in place?”
“Yeah, man,” Colt sighs. “Between your girl and the guys, your ass is going to be handed to you once they find out how much shit you’ve been doing behind their backs.”
I smirk, picturing the fight Ariah will give me once she finds out the lengths I’ve gone to keep an eye on her. “You let me worry about that. Just make sure her house by LWU is set, too.”
“Why isn’t Lev doing this?” Cooper asks.
Rolling my eyes, I retort, “Because, Asshole. They can’t know until it’s time for them to know.”
“Right,” Coop snorts.
“Don’t you have your own girl to worry about?”
“Fuck off,” they both shout before the line goes dead. I can’t help but feel a little sorry for the hell Eva is going to face this year at Groveton.
Well, when you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes—and Eva played the most foolish game of all.
Shrugging, I slide my phone into my back pocket as I stride over to the side of Ariah’s bed. Eva’s the Jacobis’ problem. I have more important matters to focus on. One being the delectable girl before me.
Something falls into place at the sight of Ariah sleeping soundly in her bed. She’s back, and I’m torn on how I should feel. I want—no, I need her to be safe, and being here will not do that. But the peace that settles over me now that she’s home stomps all over that.
