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Then he said, "God, you’re a tight ass" Grinning, he added, "I like a tight ass on a girl"

"Too bad for you I don’t like slier--but he just turned away from her to surreptitiously text someone Even from where she sat, Nadia could read the words stuck-up bitch

Nadia wondered whether there really were spells for turningabout it helped

"Maybe we should go check on hied "I don’t think so"

"But why are you assu class? I mean, Elizabeth could have confronted him--or he could have confronted her--and he could be, I don’t know, a hostage in her house Imprisoned!" In hersuspiciously Disneyesque--Mateo see a cape, even--but there was a black cave and bars over the s and plenty of scarier eleht be Elizabeth’shis shift at La Catrina last night"

Verlaine paused, the keys in her hand hovering just short of her car door’s lock "Wait, you saw hiuys talked?"

Aardly Nadia said, "Well, I saw hi on people again" Nadia didn’t deny it "Rereat idea?"

"You were the one who said we should check on hi Just … covertly"

Verlaine shook her head as she unlocked the car Her old land yacht htly stinky, like French fries were always in the glove compartment, but at least it was a little bit of a haven away from the rest of the school When they were both inside, doors shut, Verlaine said, "You just spied on the restaurant?"

"Yeah I sat in front of the barbershop across the street Hey, does the woman orks there--is she not friendly?"

"Oh, that’s just Ginger She never talks" Verlaine didn’t let herself get sidetracked "What about his house? Did you spy there, too?"

"No Give er froers through her black hair, and Verlaine realized her hands were shaking Whoa She’d known Nadia orried about Mateo, but not that she was truly scared for hihed "Elizabeth said--she told me Mateo was hers to control, anytime she wanted She said she could make him love her, even believe that he’d always loved her Which--I hate that idea, I hate it, but I’d rather think about hi with Elizabeth than the alternatives"

"What alternatives?"