Page 97 of Reign By Wrath

Iris stared at me long and hard. “Everleigh was behind the attack on my sister? You can prove this?”

I tossed her my phone. Why not? I wasn’t there to hide Everleigh’s secrets.

Iris’s eyes widened as she read the anonymous messages that went back and forth between Everleigh and Mitchell Zedra. He carried out the beating, but she told him where she’d be... and how many bones to break.

“And before you think this is just about Everleigh,” I said, “I have to tell you that there’s a reason I emailed only you guys. Everyone here was made a victim of the T.O.D. Club in ways you didn’t even know.”

Ripples of shock and surprise went through the crowd. They didn’t know.

“Long ago, the Rogues were formed to protect themselves from the Royals. They banded together because no one person—not even a rich, privileged person—was strong enough to take on all of them. For years, that was true until suspicion and secrets drove us all apart.

“I propose we go back to the way things were. The choice is yours.” I raised my chin. “Will you follow me?”

The silence was broken only by the crashing waves.

“I told you,” Dean said, snapping my head up. “We’ll follow you anywhere.”

Chapter Ten

Iblinked through thedark, mind oddly still as I thought over the plan.

A hard kick caught my shin.

“Move over!”

I gritted my teeth. “For the hundredth time, Saylor. I can’t move over. There’s nowhere to go!”

“This was such a stupid idea. What the hell am I doing here?”

I freely rolled my eyes. Saylor had been complaining since before we got in. Granted, it wasn’t fun bumping together like billiard balls in Katie’s trunk, but there wasn’t another way.

The car came to a sudden stop, sending me rolling into Saylor and setting off another round of bitching. Cousins or not, we’d never like each other.

Katie popped the trunk, standing over us in killer glitter gold lingerie with a matching glitter eye mask perched on top of her head. “Ugh. I still can’t believe she stole my theme. What a vindictive cow. She hasn’t forgiven me for calling out her lame reality TV party, so she’s one-upping my party.”

“She’s also ghoulishly reminding everyone of the night she killed Giovanni.”

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