Page 34 of They Will Fall

Your Bestie: Where the hell are you!? And if it’s away from BCU, stay there, because this place is swimming with The Elders. Please text me again so I know you’re safe.

Your Bestie: PS. We’re all going to get Maddox.

Thank God, they’re getting him.

A smile spreads across my face, and Temper takes notice. “Boyfriend?”

“Uh. No,” I say. “My best friend.”

“Of course. Your Louise. Should’ve known you had one.” She flips her hair and keeps walking, making me smile.

“Actually,” I inhale deeply as I contemplate how to say this without sounding like I’m guilty of murder. “How would you feel about being an accomplice, just for a little bit?”

“Accomplice to murder?”

“No.” I chuckle. “An accomplice to possibly hiding me out in your dorm, while feeding me food and giving me warmth.” My mouth draws back, teeth bared in a wide smile. “Just until I figure out my next move.”

She stops walking to face me, so I do the same. “On one condition.”

“You name it.”

“If you ever write a book about your adventure on the run as a wanted woman, you mention that I saved you from three big bad wolves and kept you from starving to death.”

“That’syour condition?”

“Too much?”

“No.” I begin walking again. “Not too much at all. It’s a deal.”

She claps her hands together gleefully and I follow her lead as we take a sharp left, straight toward the Falcons’ Nest—the same dormitory Scar and I stayed in during our attendance at BCA.

“Oh,” I blurt. “No one can know about this. So your roommate—”

“Don’t have one,” she says.

“You don’t have a roommate?”

“Nope. Loner through and through, until now, I guess.” Her eyebrows waggle.

“Doesn’t that get…lonely?”

“I love being alone. I’m your typical bookworm, tree-hugging, nature-loving introvert.”

Yep. She’s Scar in a different body.

“So where are you from?” I ask her, hoping to get to know the girl who’s helping me a little better.

“Annex. About six hours away from Boulder Cove.”

“Never heard of it.”

“Not many people have. Our town is so small, we have to travel two hours for our Chapter meetings.”

“Small towns are nice. Have you lived there your whole life?”

“Pretty much. I almost didn’t come here at all. My mom was insistent, but I snuck behind her back and got approval from our Chapter President. To say she was pissed is an understatement. I wanted the full experience as a member andhadto get out of that one-street town. Plan to go to BCU when I graduate, too.”

“My best advice to you, stay in your lane and don’t piss off the wrong people. But if you do, you seem like a girl who can take care of herself. You must have brothers.”

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