Page 38 of Always Darkest


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She felt a warm, tiny ache. He was hot, and her obsession with Ansel felt so unfulfilling, stupid, and pointless right then. Ansel was a fantasy. Rex wasreal, with the pectoral muscles and smooth stomach to prove it.

“I need to find Lozen.”

“You and Lozen,” he groaned. “Are you sure you guys aren’t, like, a thing?”

“God,” Saber said. “IwishI was gay.”

Rex laughed.

“I’m glad you aren’t,” he said into her ear, then nipped it a little bit.

When she went back in, she couldn’t find Lozen anywhere.

“Hey,” she said, coming up on a group of girls gathered in a circle talking. “Where’s Lozen?”

“Oh, she went to this other party,” Elise said.

Saber noticed Elise was looking much better than she had just a few days before.

“What? What other party?”

The thought of Lozen going to another party was kind of ridiculous. There was no way she’d go off on her own.

“We’re about to go now. Do you want to come?”

“Where is it?”

“It’s at this guy’s house,” Laurel said. “He’s fun, he throws these big parties and loves when hot girls show up.”

Saber felt an electric shock run down her spine.

“Hotguys, too,” Sophie interrupted, giggling.

“Hotpeople.”

“Who did Lozen go with?”

“Oh, uh, Clarice, I think?”

“I’m sorry, but that doesn’t sound like Lozen. Are you sure she went?”

“She was drunk.”

Thatdidsound a little bit more like Lozen.

“Really? She went without me?”

Laurel gave her a guilty smile.

“We might have told her you were already on your way.”

Saber was taken aback.

“That’s kind of shitty.”

“We just really wanted you to come! You’re so fun!”

Saber was a tiny bit tipsy, but she couldn’t remember a time when she’d been especially fun around Laurel and Elise.

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