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“I can’t,” she whispers back. “Jake would have never let me. I can’t do this to him.”
“Jake is gone,” I sob loudly. In my pain, I forgot she asked me to be quiet.
Hurried footsteps can be heard at one end of the alley.
“Right here!” someone shouts.
“It’s Scott,” someone else adds.
“Shit, shit, shit,” Billie panics. “Jamie, get up.Pleaseget up.”
She helps me up, but I’ve completely lost my will to live. Billie looks at the three shadows walking toward us and back at me.
“Come out, come out, Billie,” one of them sing-songs in a threatening melody. “We’re hunting NSC bitches tonight.”
“That’s Caden King, we need to leave. We need to leavenow.”
We hurry toward the other end of the never-ending alley but stop dead in our tracks. Someone is coming from the other side, a shadow covering their face. They seem miles away, but they’re there.
She lets go of me and runs a hand over her face. “Shit,” she whispers in defeat.
She turns back to the three guys and crosses her arms over her chest. That’s her way of making herself look threatening, I guess. I’m just a mess next to her.
“Billie Scott,” one of the guys says as they stop right in front of us. “Who’s that?” he asks, pointing at me with his chin.
“I know who that is,” another says. “That’s Jake White’s girl. Well…was.”
I feel sick to my stomach. Everyone knows.
Everyone knows because it’s real.
“Looks like we got the best catch of the night,” the first one mocks.
One of them grabs my arm and I jerk away in a whimper.
“Leave her alone,” Billie growls.
The first guy takes a threatening step toward Billie and smiles. “Now, why would I do that?”
“The girl just lost her boyfriend. Don’t be a dick, Caden,” she insists.
So that one would be Caden King.
“Talking about dicks, how about I ram mine down her throat. She’s single now.”
Another stab at my heart. This one deep enough I feel it in my stomach. I feel so sick I have to put a hand on the brick wall next to me.
“He’s gone,” I whisper to myself.
I bend to the side, against the wall and it all comes out.
I throw up until I can’t breathe and I’m heaving. Until my stomach shrinks on itself.
The guys in front of us make fun of me, and Billie puts a hand on my back.
“How about you play your fucking games with someone who can take them,” she rages at him.
“Yeah? You think you can take me, Billie? With the state we found Kay in after she visited you guys, you’re not gonna like what’s to come.”
