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Maro:
Gabbyismy girlfriend, not one of them. There is nobody else. Let’s be clear on that. And Ellie would have done the same thing.
Sordello:
That doesn’t make it right.
[Silence]
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Riley
WHEN EVELYN HARPER’S EYESlanded on her through the window, Riley dropped to the floor. Which was stupid—she knew Evelyn saw her, the others, too—but every bone in her body told her to hide anyway.
She blindly reached for her phone on the counter, managed to find it, and dialed her mom.
It rang twice, then connected. Riley didn’t give her mom a chance to speak. “Mama, I need you to come home! Somebody’s outside! A mean girl from school. Remember the one I told you about? It’s her. Her, her brother, and someone else. I don’t know what they want, but they’re right outside, Mama!”
Riley sucked in a breath and waited for her mom to reply, but there was nothing.
“Mama?”
The display saiddisconnected.
She dialed again, and the call didn’t go through at all.
Someone knocked on the window.
Knocked hard enough to rattle the glass.
“Let us in, Riley! We need to talk to you.”
It was her, Evelyn.
The kitchen door shook a moment later, someone yanking at the knob.
“I called the police!” Riley shouted out.
“Phones don’t work right.”
This came from outside the kitchen door, a boy’s voice.
Evelyn hit the window again. “We just want to talk. Let us in!”
