Page 215 of Pretty Little Lies

“Let’s just go.”You’re gonna leave Reeve behind and Torin? After everything you’ve done.“I…I can’t do this.”

Levi’s inked hand reaches across the front to clasp my hand in my lap and laces his thick fingers with mine. “I got you, Astor.No more staying with Torin in rooms alone. He’s gotta be fucked up right now.”

My interest is piqued that Levi would know, and it’s just another level of how much I don’t know around here. “They were close?”

“I remember them runnin’ together when I was younger. When Judah was in The Landings. He went by Lennox, though. Somehow, he got tangled up with Matteo and that was that.”

“I didn’t know they were linked up. Why didn’t you tell me that IstabbedTorin’s brother?”

“What the fuck was that going to do?” he counters back simply. “Make you more paranoid?”

More than likely.

However, I could’ve been privy to it.

“I could’ve prepared for this,” I counter.

I could’ve not fallen in love with Torin…maybe.

“Did you know there was a video of you and Judah?”

“No.”

“Then it looks like you were kept in the dark like everyone else. And…it wasn’t my call to blurt out the information because Roger was supposed to do it. We argued about it, but he made good points. No need for you to be walking around, waiting on someone to figure out that you are the entire heir to the Titan throne.” My stomach practically begins to gut itself. “I don’t know how Judah figured it out…but you have the power to thrive in this illusive, underground organization, so maybe he was afraid you’d hand it right over to Emilio.”

“Why the hell would I do that? He killed mymother.”

“He’s a Wildes, Bay,” Levi says, as if that explains it all. “I can’t say they’re the most rational human beings in the world.”

True.

I just hoped Torin wasn’t like them.

“It wasn’t like I walked around with anumber one fan of Emilio Wildesshirt on.”

Levi chuckles a little. “Yeah, well…look where paranoid gets you.” I glance back out the window because it’s eating me alive right now. “So, about Layla and her band of bitches?—”

“Drop it,” I issue out with another thought. “I’ll get her ass when I see her at school.”

“Not when it has the possibility of getting you kicked out. How do you think I pulled that shit off in high school?”

“You fucked the principal.”

Levi smirks, and I instantly want to smack the back of his head. I recall the rumors and how the guys at school praised him for a full week after that one. “Assistant principal.” My arm snaps out and my palm bats at the back of his skull, earning me a deep laugh from Levi on the other side of the car. “I was just correcting you.”

“Who the fuckfucksthe assistant principal?”

“Someone that would get his ass beat by Roger if I didn’t pass high school.” I lift my shoulders because he’s not wrong. “What did you tell the girls about the house?”

I blow out a heavy exhale and grimace. “Bugs.”

“Good one. Now, what are we tellin’ the old man when he finally wakes up?”

“It was infested beyond repair?”

“Try again,” Levi chortles. “Something like the foundation shifted and cracked.”

“Why, because your big ass walked in the house and sunk it into the ground with your muscles?”

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