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The loud clap of thunder startled me awake. My eyes flew open, and the curtains shifted with the breeze blowing through the crack in the window. A storm was building outside.
Lightning lit up the room, and my hands clutched the blanket. I swallowed, my mouth dry.
Yesterday, after Paris’s little menace show, I asked Alice if I could sleep somewhere other than Luther’s room. I told her I wanted something simpler, that I didn’t deserve the special treatment. That part was true, but the real reason — Luther’s mean girlfriend — stayed hidden.
Alice spoke with a very grumpy guy named Steel, one of the club’s oldest members and one of the few who actually had a room in the building. Most of the crew lived off-site. Steel wasn’t going to use his room for a few days, so he let me stay
