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The room erupted in chaos around her seconds after Edward hung up.
“An hour? Is he crazy?”
“How did we miss this?”
“What are we going to do?”
“Trading Kelsea isn’t an option.”
“We need solutions, not more problems.”
They all talked. Over each other, around each other. Sometimes shouting, sometimes calm. Through all of it, none of them turned to Kelsea.
She dropped back onto her chair and sat there, frozen. Finding out Edward was behind all this was hard enough, but hearing the lengths he was willing to go to crushed her. He wasn’t going to give up. Not until he got what he wanted.
Poor Cecelia.
Kelsea’s heart pounded at the thought of Edward hurting her friend. Cecelia had been so kind to Kelsea since she moved into the neighborhood. She welcomed her when no one else seemed to
