It wasn’t only that Cleo hadn’t let anyone but Bea, Harleigh Rose, Cressida, and me touch her since the assault. Not even Lin, her grandmother. Not even Loulou or Lila or Buck’s wife, Maja. Only Bea, ’cause they were best friends, and they’d bonded over their association with the sick fuck Seth Linley. Only Harleigh Rose, ’cause she’d been assaulted by her ex-shit-for-brains-boyfriend Cricket before she’d put a knife in him and ended his life. Only Cressida, ’cause she knew the weight of staggerin’ grief after thinkin’ she’d lost King for months last year and ’cause she was Cressida, everyone
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