ATLAS
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Sixteen years later, I’m certainly not the sorry-ass of a boy I was back then.
I didn’t just fight without aiming. I laid out perfect strategies that would get me closer to my goal without having to do too much.
To run the Grants completely dry.
And to do all that, I needed Rhoda.
But Elena wouldn’t understand it. All this together is the reason I can’t commit to Elena. I needed her, yeah. Wanted her. But I also didn’t want her involved in all this mess.
This whole thing was just…complicated.
My phone buzzed in my pocket, and I reached inside and pulled it out.
Keelan’s name glowed across the screen, and I squinted my brows, a premonition settling in the pit of my stomach before my thumb swiped the screen.
“Keelan.”
“Where are you?” Keelan breathed
