Page 78 of Lovers Fate

I shake my heard rereading the text. “I don’t know. Someone sent me a random text.”

“What’s it say?” she asks curiously, pulling into the motel parking lot.

I show her once she stops the car.

“It’s a riddle. Do you know who it might be from?”

The only other person who has my number is Kaden and I have his contact saved.

“I have no idea.”

She reads it out loud and we both think for a few seconds staring at the screen.

“I have no idea,” we say in unison and then laugh.

But the next text that chimes in has a brick dropping in my stomach.

Unknown: A dead man.

We both look at each other and I’m not sure what she is thinking but it can’t be.

“Do you think…who would?” she trails off.

But I do. In the pit of my stomach but the man who was at the club with the mask wasn’t Draco. It wasn’t Kaden. I would know. The masked man was taller than Kaden but an inch shorter than Draco and was leaner in build. I haven’t met the rest of the guy’s Draco and Kaden hang out with but there is no way anyone could have recognized me. I was wearing a wig and no one has intervened when I’m at the club or has gotten out of line with me directly.

Except, Charlie.

I look at my phone and then swipe up repeatedly. “Fuck.”

“What’s wrong,” Rose asks looking me swiping up my thumb pressing the screen. “The text. It was here and now it’s gone, how’s that possible?”

She shakes her head. “I don’t know but someone fucking around. Hacker, maybe. Spam?”

She saw it too so I’m not crazy. It was there. I glance at my motel room door with trepidation. It had to be Draco but what ifit isn’t? I don’t have a gun. I couldn’t’ get one legally anyway. I don’t expect an axe to magically appear in room if someone tries to attack me.

“Why don’t you stay with me tonight?” Rose asks.

“Where?” I ask, wanting to but not sure if I should.

“Dorm.”

“Aren’t there rules?”

“Just curfew but I can get in. I mean, if you want to,” she says, hopefully.

I should take her up on her offer but then again, I shouldn’t. The less people know about me the better. But don’t want to be alone tonight.

“Alright.”

After grabbing a change of clothes from my motel room. We enter through the back of the building before the security guard comes back from his break. Rose has the security’s schedule timed to the tea. She knows their schedules and who is on duty and when.

When she unlocks the door to her dorm, it’s nothing like I expected. It’s small with a twin bed against the wall. A small desk and room for nothing else. I expected her to share a room with someone or something.

“It’s small. We’ll have to share the bed or I could sleep on the floor.”

“I’m okay with the bed if you are.”

I’ve never been close with someone like this. I was hoping when I started school in Stockbridge High that I would make friends but none of that happened.

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