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“I’m sorry. I really am. I never wanted to hurt her.”
“Enough, Max.”
Something in her voice makes me stop.
Sienna turns to face me, and something unpleasant coils deep in my gut.
“I know it was you.”
“What?”
“I know what you’ve been doing.”
“What are you talking about? Didn’t you just see what happened? It was an accident!”
“Save it.”
“Sienna—”
“I read your manuscript.”
A cold sweat breaks out across my forehead.
“What does my book have to do with any of this?” I demand. “More importantly, how the hell did you read it in the first place? Did you go through my things?”
Sienna doesn’t even have the decency to look ashamed.
“Yes. After you left for the party, I went through your room.”
“You what?”
“I needed to know, Max. I needed to prove to myself that you weren’t behind these murders. That there was some other explanation for everything that’s been happening.” She swallows hard. “And then I found your manuscript on your laptop. You really should password-protect your things better, by the way. It wasn’t exactly difficult to figure out your password.”
I stare at her, unable to believe what I’m hearing.
“You… went through my computer?”
“I didn’t want to find anything,” she says, her voice faltering slightly. “I wanted to be wrong. I really fucking wanted to be wrong. But you put it all in there. Every single thing you’ve done. You even put me in your twisted story.”
“Sienna, what the hell are you talking about?”
“And Milo,” she adds, running a hand over her face before continuing. “You put Milo in there, too.”
As though hearing his name has somehow summoned him, I spot Milo making his way through the crowd gathered on the quad, crossing the green toward us.
He came after all.
Despite everything, a smile tugs at my lips.
Sienna follows my line of sight, her posture stiffening when she sees him approaching.
“Max, are you even listening to me?”
I barely hear her. Not when Milo is finally standing in front of me, looking every bit as handsome as he did ten years ago.
Then I notice the scars.
Scars like the ones I bear mar his pretty features too.
