“You know, the hard-to-get act is old, Malloy. I’m king at this school, and my friends are like a royal court. You’d be well advised to take this offer before it’s rescinded and you end up another one of the plebs. I know for a girl like you that’s a fate worse than death.” He hisses the last word, the death. He wants me to feel it. His hot breath curdles my skin, and it takes me back to another night, another guy’s hot breathing on my ear, another set of hands on me that I didn’t ask for. Stale air. A satin-lined box I couldn’t escape… I’m done. I don’t even think. I slam my fist into Alec
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