Total pages in book: 187
Estimated words: 184867 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 924(@200wpm)___ 739(@250wpm)___ 616(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 184867 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 924(@200wpm)___ 739(@250wpm)___ 616(@300wpm)
My last connection to the outside world.
Gone.
Caleb
“Where the fuck is Caleb?”
Who the hell is that?
I hear some ruckus downstairs, so I pick up my bag and head down to see what’s going on. Arlo is being dragged off the floor near the door.
“What the fuck do you want from Caleb?” he yells.
I gaze at the Phantoms—Nathan, Kai, and Milo—as I rush toward the door. “No worries, I’m here.”
What the fuck do they want?
“You …” Nathan turns his attention toward me. “You motherfucking asshole!” He grabs me by the collar. “You stole my pictures, didn’t you?”
What the—
“I didn’t steal shit,” I bark. “Are you accusing me?”
Nathan stares at me like he’s about to rip the skin off my body.
“Nathan,” Kai warns him. “Don’t.”
But he’s here punching my fellow Tartarus guys for a reason, so let him fucking talk. I’d like to fucking know the reason.
“Go on. Ask me what you wanna ask,” I say.
“Did you send my picture of Lana to everyone’s email?” he grits.
“No.”
He balls his fist. “Don’t. Fucking. Lie.”
“It wasn’t me,” I say. “I already tried to tell you that, but you won’t believe me.”
“No shit!” he retorts, fuming. “You were the only one in the library with me.”
Aha. So this is about the laptop.
“There were a ton of other people,” I say.
“Yet you were the one watching my laptop.”
“Was I?” I tilt my head and raise a brow. “Or did you just tell me to?”
I’m not his lapdog he can just order around.
“We weren’t the only ones there,” I say.
“You’re the only one to hate me enough to send that picture to the whole goddamn school.” Nathan raises his fist at me. “You motherf—”
“Enough.”
Blaine’s voice makes even Nathan back off.
Good.
I’m not about to get pummeled in the face for his mistakes.
“I won’t allow you to soil this ground with blood,” Blaine says with a sly smile. “You’re all better than that. C’mon. You were lovers once, right?”
A long time ago, maybe. And I really tried to be friends with him, but he wouldn’t let me.
“True,” Milo muses.
“Shut up,” Nathan quips.
“Your boy Caleb over here decided to put some very private pictures of Lana and us on the group chat,” Kai says to Blaine.
What? That’s bullshit!
“I did not,” I say. “And I keep telling them that, but they refuse to believe me.”
Blaine steps out of the house too.
“Interesting.” He stops right in front of Nathan even though he’s still got his hands on my collar. “Caleb, you’ll fix this.”
My jaw drops. “What? But I didn’t do shi—”
Blaine lifts his finger. “Just do it.”
“How is he gonna fix this?” Nathan barks. “Everyone’s already seen the picture. Fuck knows the entire internet by now.”
“Turn it into a story.” Blaine waves his hand around. “Make her look like a victim.”
“What … you mean turn us into predators?” Kai narrows his eyes and folds his arms. “You think I’m going to agree to that?”
“Your girlfriend must hate you right now, no?” Blaine retorts.
“Then I guess this is the only chance you’ve got to make it right.”
“Um … is everyone forgetting the dead body in the picture?”
Milo pulls out his phone to show us the lewd picture they took of her. It is not something I wanted to see today, but I guess I won’t be able to get that out of my retina.
Great.
Kai snatches the phone out of his hand. “Great job, Milo. Now even more people saw it.”
Milo shrugs. “They already did.”
“Yes, I’m aware of the dead body,” Blaine says. “I’ve seen the picture.”
Who gives a shit about any of this? We’re not responsible for whatever the fuck they’re doing in their free time, and I don’t give a fuck about who they kill.
“People will assume she’s a killer now,” Kai says.
Blaine smirks. “Not if we make people believe the three masked men in the photo were responsible.”
Kai seems intrigued. “Go on.”
“Take your guy off Caleb first.”
Finally, Nathan lets me out of his death grip, and I pat down my shirt. “Asshole.”
“You’ll probably have to pose for another kill with those masks on for it to work, though,” Blaine says.
“Caleb can help with that,” Nathan says, glaring at me. “I can turn you into a corpse in no time.”
“Fine. I don’t care how. Just make it happen,” Kai says. “We have to make the school believe she’s innocent.”
Suddenly, Nathan’s distracted by his phone, and he pulls it out. Hopefully, this’ll get those boys off our fucking property. Though, I’m not looking forward to helping any of them.
But then he sinks to the ground, eyes nearly bulging out of his head, and part of me really wants to know what he just saw.
“What the fuck happened?” Milo asks him.
“Nathan?” Kai tries to touch him, but Nathan grabs him and yells, “Romeo took Lana!”
Oh boy.
One minute, I’m nearly being pummeled into the ground by Nathan Reed, and then those Phantom fuckers force me to come help them save their precious Lana from Romeo’s claws, who is apparently in the fucking Bones Brotherhood.