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She glances at the three girls now ganging up on her and then returns her attention to me. “Whatever. You aren’t worth it, anyway.” She steps out of the way, glaring at me.
“No, not worth the risk of being sent to Nitkin again, hey?” I ask, smirking as her face pales. I walk toward my friends, thankful that it didn’t escalate further.
Camilla loops her arms with mine, smiling. “You tell her. She’s a pathetic, jealous bully.”
“That’s what we should watch,” Adrianna says, drawing our attention to her.
“What?” Nat asks.
“Mean girls,” she says, looking pleased with herself.
The other two laugh, nodding in agreement. “Deal,” Camilla says.
It sounds like a terrible idea, but I can’t say that since I’ve never watched the movie. “Have you seen it before?”
Adrianna raises a brow. “Of course, who hasn’t?”
I hold my hand up. “Me.”
“No freaking way,” Camilla says, dropping my arm and gawking at me.
“How have you not seen it?” Natalya asks.
“I’ve never been into chick flicks.”
You’d think I’d just offended all of their families by the look on each of their faces.
“Challenge accepted,” Camilla says, taking my arm again. “We’ll convert you tonight, I guarantee it.”
I laugh as we head into the dormitory wing and down the corridor to Adrianna’s room. Her room is the largest of the four of us and decorated extravagantly with a huge sixty-inch television on the wall.
“Why is it that your room is so big?” I ask.
Adrianna looks a little sheepish, shrugging. “I guess because my parents paid more.”
Natalya sighs. “Yeah, she’s got the richest family out of all of us. After all, she’s cartel.”
I swallow hard at the word, wondering how vicious her family is. The cartel is renowned for being a step above the rest for violence.
Adrianna waves her hands in the air. “Enough about that. It’s time to convert Eva into a chick flick lover.”
“I don’t think that will ever happen,” I say as the girls flop down on Adrianna’s huge couch. Curling my legs beneath me, I sit on the end and get comfy while Adrianna finds the movie on Netflix.
“Buckle up. You’re in for one hell of a ride,” Camilla says, winking at me.
I shake my head and get comfortable, smiling to myself. When my parents sent me here, I was sure I’d be friendless because I didn’t belong in these girls’ world. They know I don’t have any interest in life in the mafia, but they accept me. It’s more than I can say for most of the girls at my last school.
I’ve never felt I belonged anywhere, and the last place I expected to belong was at a school for criminal heirs. Perhaps the saying,don’t judge a book by its cover,relates to this school.
* * *
I’mthankful that the next five days pass by without incident, even though Oak’s contact hasn’t been able to unmask the mystery blackmailer. He apparently will need longer to find the culprit since they used a burner phone. It was silly to think they didn’t know what they were doing. This school is full of criminals.
We’ve kept our distance from each other, even if it felt impossible at times. As I stand in the school’s main hall, waiting to see off my three friends for the winter break, my heart is pounding frantically. Oak and I will be alone here in his cottage for two weeks within hours.
Natalya appears and rushes over to me. “I am going to miss you,” she says, hugging me tightly.
I laugh, shaking my head. “It is only two weeks.”
