Chapter 133

Melody glared at me with a venomous intensity, a silent threat hanging in the tension between

  1. us.

“Make my life hell, and I’ll drag you down with me,” her eyes seemed to say.

Her confidence in tarnishing my name and linking me to a murderer made me waver a bit.

I knew all too well that Foebe, the woman whose life I had inexplicably stepped into, had some shady dealings with the murderer.

And there I was, stuck in Foebe’s shoes.

“If that’s the case, I’m gonna need you both to stay put here in Sea City for the time being,” Robin said, glancing at me as he prepared to leave.

Suddenly, he paused. “You claim to be best friends with Phoebe. Did you know about that close call she had at the Nocturne bar, where some creep nearly took advantage of her?”

Robin was fishing for something, I could tell.

and she was all panicky when she

up, guilt written all

low, fists clenched tight.

want to hear it.

I was determined

a cab and dashed over to Nocturne only to find Dexter sober as a judge. It was all

night, they mocked me.

response time–ten minutes, twenty, whatever. They jeered and used every filthy word and trick to

was wasted, braving the thunder and lightning, facing my worst fears, only to be met with unabashed

Dexter shuddered, backing away as if

the rain since

wouldn’t stop; I just had to say

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she was afraid for you, Dexter. And she still went! And what did she get? You let Kyle molest her! You watched your pack of fair–weather friends whoop and holler as they stripped her dignity, tore at her clothes. pinned her down

in ragged gasps, on the brink of

too graphic, striking a nerve.

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