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After a few brutal minutes, everyone ran out of condoms to throw at me, and I was able to lower my hands. Even though they were covered in a slimy film, I still tried to wipe my face off.

The effort came to a stop when Ramsey’s voice froze everything inside me. “Oh, c’mon, Emerson. I know for a fact that you like cum all over that pretty face of yours,” he sneered.

The hallway erupted in laughter as Ramsey raised his chin in challenge. My eyes darted past him to Deke, and his face was completely impassive while Liam’s eyes were looking down.

I stood there, covered in disgust, looking at Ramsey, and my mind wandered to my backpack. I mentally recounted everything that was in my bag, and then my locker. It was all stuff that could be left behind, and that was important somehow. I was covered in filth, and I was going to have to walk back down this hallway, past all these people, to its entrance. Still, somehow, being able to do that without having to grab my backpack and sift through my locker was an important victory.

I didn’t bother trying to wipe the chaos from my face anymore, nor did I try to shake loose the condoms that were still stuck on my body.

Instead, I turned my back on Ramsey, Deke, and Liam, then walked back through the hallway with my head held high, and my spine straight as an arrow. I slipped a couple of times, and some students laughed, but I didn’t fall.

When I reached the school’s front entrance, I stopped, and with my back to everyone, I removed my uniform shirt and skirt while kicking off my white sandals. Once I was in my bra and panties only, I pushed open the front doors, then walked across the lawn to the parking lot. My gaze was focused on the safety of my parked car, and it never wavered. I didn’t look around to see if anyone was watching me, and I sure as fuck never looked back to see if anyone had followed me.

Once I got to my car, I got in, grabbed the keys from under the seat, and with shaky hands, turned the ignition. When my car started, I twisted my body, so that I could see behind me as I backed up, all the while never looking up back towards the school.

I drove home, then took a shower so hot that the water left burn patches on my skin. After that, I packed everything that meant anything to me, then drove to Roselyn’s. I told her what had happened, and she held me for hours as I cried and cried. The night had been a mixture of my tears, and Roselyn’s need to run Ramsey over with her car. Her outrage had been the only thing holding me together.

It had taken brute honesty to finally calm her down. I’d known that Ramsey Reed was no good, and I’d gone there anyway. This was all my fault. While I didn’t deserve what those people had done to me, I had to own the fact that I’d gotten in bed with Satan’s spawn-willingly-knowing that he’d ruin me eventually.

The next morning, I’d woken up, hugged Roselyn goodbye, then had driven out of Sands Cove. After all, today was my eighteenth birthday.

No one could stop me now.

Chapter 29

Ramsey~

Iwas sitting on one of the sports benches that were hidden behind the Ag-Science building, trying not to lose what little was left of my sanity. No one ever came back here because almost nobody studied Ag-Science, so it was a good place to try to collect yourself.

Try as I may, I hadn’t been able to get Wednesday morning out of my head. Even though I’d been the one to set it all up, I never imagined that the scene would be as brutal as it’d been, and that was fucking with me.

Emerson was a no-good cheating whore, but I still couldn’t shake the devastation that I’d felt watching her throw up everywhere. I shouldn’t have felt anything other than triumph that I had gotten my revenge for her betrayal, but two days later, I was feeling a lot of things, and none of them felt triumphant.

Deke had remained quiet about the entire thing, giving me time to sort through the aftermath of Emerson fucking destroying me, and I wouldn’t expect anything else from him. However, Liam…Liam had been avoiding me, and it was becoming concerning.

I loved Liam; he was my brother. He was one of the only two people on the planet that I trusted, and I felt like something irrevocable had changed between us. I knew that he hadn’t been completely sold on what Emerson had done, but if watching what had happened to her bothered me-and I fucking hated her-then I couldn’t imagine what Liam was feeling.

I had my knees drawn up on the bench with my head in my hands when I heard screeching and cursing coming my way. I looked up, and Deke had one hand on Bailey’s neck and the other on her arm, forcing her forward with each step. Liam was walking behind them, and I was pretty sure that I’d never seen Liam look so murderous, even when he’d been beating the shit out of Jamie, Roman, and Ricky.

Deke was foaming at the mouth when they finally reached me. “Tell him,” he snarled.

“Let me go!” Bailey shrieked. “Get your hands off me, Deke!”

I could see Deke’s hand tighten around her neck.“Fucking tell him, you fucking cunt!”

I hopped off the bench, then stood looking at the trio. “What’s going on?”

There was only one thing that Bailey, Deke, Liam, and I had in common, and that was Emerson. I could already feel the pit of my stomach hollowing out before she’d even uttered a word. Whatever this was, it wasn’t going to turn out in my favor.

Bailey’s hands were desperately trying to dislodge Deke’s grip, but she was failing. “I’ve never hit a female before in my life, Bailey, but I swear to God, if you don’t tell him, Iwillfuck you up.”

Okay, now my anxiety was skyrocketing.

Deke wouldneverhit a female.

“What the fuck is going on?” I asked again. “I won’t ask a third time.”

Bailey let out a sob, and her eyes looked wild and terrified. “It was all a lie,” she cried out.

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