Page 245 of Evil Boys

They made a mistake, and we’re the ones paying the price.

But how am I going to tell Ro she’ll never see her mom and dad again?

I punch the door as hard as I can before I tuck the phone back into my pocket and storm out the door.

When I bust back into the library, Caleb’s already gone.

I snatch my laptop and my books off the table, marching out of this library that requires silence when my heart wants nothing more than to roar.

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Lana

I takelots of notes in class, making sure I’m all ears to the teacher as I’ve already missed too many classes. But as the time goes by, more and more buzzing on the phones of the people in my class distracts me from what the teacher is trying to explain, and by the time his class is almost finished, it’s really starting to grind my gears.

“Lana,” Brooke mutters next to me, but I’m far too busy staring angrily at other people in the class.

“Am I missing out on some group chat or something?” I mutter. “Why is everyone’s phones buzzing?”

“Lana. I think you need to see this,” she says, and she holds out her phone.

There’s an email that got sent to almost the entire school, and all the students are going wild over a picture.

All the blood slowly drains from my face.

It’s a picture of me without my mask, strapped to a chair, being taken from all sides by Kai, Nathan, and Milo.

Right next to the dead body in the Shack.

My whole body goes numb, and I don’t think I have a heart anymore … because it stopped beating.

Everyone saw me getting railed.

Everyone knows I’m a killer now.

Everything I ever wanted to avoid has happened.

I scoot my chair back.

Everyone’s looking at me like they’re seeing a living corpse.

I take out my phone and open the email to see for myself, but I can’t even stop my hands from shaking so vigorously I almost lose control.

The sender was anonymous.

But I know ananonymous.

The only anonymous who had access to those pictures along with his friends.

“Lana Rivera, can you please sit back down?” the teacher says.

Instead, I grab my bag and storm out of class, hell-bent on revenge.

If they’re going to drag me down into my own personal hell, I’m taking those fuckers with me.

KAI

“I’m gonna have to look for a permanent alternative for Ro,” Nathan says as he takes a huge drag.

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