"Because," Jesse says, patting my knee and then getting up, "you're safe now, Ari. Nobody's going to mess with you."

"What?" I ask, my eyes following him as he moves over to his desk, writing something down on a piece of paper. "What are you talking about?”

"You don't have to worry about Wright anymore," Rafe murmurs, flicking his eyes up to me and then down to his notebook he pulls onto his lap, where he's started making a packing list so that we can go home for winter break. "He's under full guard until his trial. Plus, everyone's scared shitless of Jackson now after his display at the bridge, which we've all heard about. So, we don't have to stalk you so much." "What these two are leaving out," Ben stage-whispers to me, loud enough so that Jesse and Rafe can hear, "is that they also kicked the shit out of Wright at the warrior finals." "What!?" I gasp, appalled.

"We only kicked the shit out of him a little bit," Rafe says, holding up two fingers held very close together in front of his face. "Just...a teeny tiny amount."

"Rafe!" I shout, grabbing a pillow and hurling it at him. "You shouldn't have done that you should have just let dad and the authorities handle it! This could get in the way of the investigation!"

"I don't know why you're surprised," Jesse calls on his way to the dumbwaiter with a note, blasé. "Did you think we were just going to let him get away with it?"

administer justice!"

"We weren't even the first ones to do it, by the looks

"What?" I gasp.

bruises everywhere," Ben says, nodding and gesturing to his face. "Looks like Luca got to him, used him as a punching bag to practice

his head and looking at Ben with a frown. "Why

the mountain. Why would he do more?" "Because,"

this is getting into dangerous territory that I absolutely do not want to touch. "We're...we're packing!? Winter break starts tomorrow? How are we

carefully, but Rafe looks up at me with a frown. "By train, Ari. Why do

know them?" I ask, putting my hands on my hips and frowning at him. "Seriously, are you getting like, text messages from the rail lines? Updates from

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