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"I don’t fucking care aboutthe whole Molly shit into this –"

"Well, fuck Molly! The hell do I care about her? I’ she isn’t!"

"They’re going to drag Leah into this too, you asshole!"

Carter went silent, running an exasperated hand through his hair He looked a downright onize Leah," Ro about me as if I wasn’t there "Make her out to be soratu-fucking-lations if it is"

"Of course it isn’t!" Carter growled back

"I told you to hold off on her,wait"

"It wasn’t his fault," I suddenly intervened "I agreed to everything Carter said, and more"

Rolanced at me in the mirror, like he’d just remembered I was there "You have to lay low, Leah"

"They didn’t see my face –"

"They’ll know your naht There will be pictures up, along with everything they believe happened, all before you lay your head to rest tonight And by , it will be everywhere That’s the world we live in, and you’ve just been dragged into it by the stellar guy sitting next to you"

Carter stared despondently out the , confir Rome’s words with his silence

Jesus Christ, I was fucked

"How did they find us?" I asked, hysterically "I don’t understand How? I don’t…"

It could have been anyone, really Could have been my boss Could have been thethe road Fuck, it could have been someone we didn’t even know had seen us

It orriso What kind of person could live through this?

"How?" I asked again, shocked

"Doesn’t matter," Carter mumbled "It never does at the end of the day"

No one spoke after that

Fourteen

Leah

Feeling overwhelmed, I opened the apartment door and stepped inside Carter and Rome followed after me I threw the keys down on the counter just as Melanie stepped out of her rooonna tell me where the hell you’ve been –" Her words ier at Ro on?" she asked ot ambushed outside theirher eye "I had to come to the rescue"

"Motel roo into my head "Please tell ht here, you know," Carter cut in icily