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“No.”

“I’ll have to tell him.”

“Obviously.”

Apollo lets out a sigh. “He’s gonna be pissed.”

“Aren’t you?”

“Yeah, of course. But what’s done is done, right? Can’t change anything. No reason to start yelling and shit.”

I go over to refill my glass.

“Don’t you have class?” Apollo asks.

I set the bottle down again. “Yeah. Fuck.”

“Smoke a blunt,” Apollo says, coming up behind me. He lays a hand on my shoulder and squeezes my muscle. “It’ll help more than the whiskey. Want me to roll—?”

“Don’t you have shit to do?” I snap. “Reuben, the data, breakfast? Sounds like a busy fucking morning.”

Apollo withdraws his hand. The sigh he lets out as he leaves takes me back.

Fuck, it takes me back.

I’m losing my shit again, and he knows it. Cass probably knew it before anyone, but he loves playing with fire just as much as the rest of us.

But no one,no onelikes to get burnt.

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Trinity

Instead of going to morning prayer, I hide out in a restroom stall staring at the freshly painted door. From the faint marks shining beneath the white paint, it looks like someone had gone to town on the thing with a Sharpie. Wish I knew what they’d written.

My appetite hasn’t been back since I puked last night so I don’t bother going to the cafeteria when the breakfast bell rings. Instead, I head back to my room and try and get in an hour’s sleep.

The next bell rings me from a death-like sleep I don’t remember falling into.

Time for class.

Thankfully, I only have Calculus and Sociology before lunch. It gives me half the day to work up the courage to find a way to excuse myself from Psych with Brother Rutherford.

Despite my nap, exhaustion weighs down my limbs and fogs my mind.

I had an affair with your father.

I. Can’t. Even.

I thought I’d wanted answers from Gabriel, but I changed my mind.

Now that the shock’s worn off, all I’m left with is a weird mix of disgust and anger. Not disgust over the fact they’re two guys, but because Dad cheated on my mom. And with our fucking priest, of all people.

But that’s not what’s eating me alive.

If Gabriel is capable of having an affair, then whatelseis he capable of? And since he’s openly admitted that he has sex with men…

I cover my face with my hands and rock forward on my bed. Class starts in a few minutes, and I’m still dressed in last night’s clothes.

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