Page 141 of Finish Line

She crosses her arms. “Why would I tell you?”

Mav steps up to the girl. “Do you have any idea who we are?”

She raises a brow. “Should I?”

Mav taps his bottom lip with his finger. “How about the name Chad Knight…Dominic Knight…or my personal favorite, Mav Knight.”

Recognition dawns on her face. “I’m not scared of you. If you touch me, I’ll tell the world you hit me.”

Laurie pushes forward. “He might not hit you, but I will.”

With a one-two combo, Laurie knocks her out.

“Ow.” She shakes out her hand. “God, I wanted to do that for years.”

“Way to go, Laurie, I didn’t know you had it in you,” Shelby says from Cam’s arms.

“You shouldn’t be on your feet. You were just unconscious.” I rush over to her, then yell at the guys, “How could you let her out of bed?”

“The doctor said it was mild, Grizzly.” She places her hand on my cheek. “I was asleep. And your roar of fury woke me up.”

She chuckles but stops, grimacing. “If you stuck around instead of charging out of the infirmary like a bull on steroids to beat Pablo to a bloody pulp, the doctor would have informed you of as much.”

“When she gets an idea in her head, you can’t stop her,” Luke says.

“You’re going to the hospital and having a CT scan,” I demand, and she nods.

“After, can I go home?” she pleads.

“We have your emancipation paper right here. We came to break you out,” Cam says.

“We can’t leave that lady in charge.” Mav looks at me, and I nod.

“Mr. June isn’t bad,” someone says.

“Who’s Mr. June?” Mav asks.

“He is.” Laurie points to the door, where a brown-haired man stands in shock.

“What the hell happened?” His head whips around, taking in the scene, and his eyes widen when they land on Shelby.

Ms. Santos runs up. “Call the police. These kids broke in and tried to take over.”

“That’s not true. You need to see this.” Mav shows Mr. June a video of Santos confessing to what she did to Shelby and how she and the guards let Julia and her team beat up the new people.

“Cells? What the hell! Is that what you did with the renovations in the basement and why none of us are allowed down there?” Mr. June scrubs his face. “Ms. Santos, how could you? Our job is to help these kids, not lock them up like dogs or turn them into thugs.”

“I didn’t, you fool. I said that because they were going to hurt me,” she says.

He laughs. “Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’ll make sure the authorities find out about this.”

“Can you take over?” Nick asks. “From what Shelby said, before this happened, this is one of the better group homes she’s been in. So, we’d hate for this place to be shut down because of Ms. Santos.”

“I can.” Mr. June nods. “And you have my word that any of the kids who perpetuated this violence will be relocated to a less… comfortable group home.”

“Where’s Laurie?” Shelby asks from Cam’s arms.

“I’m here.” She pushes through the crowd.

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