Secretly Mean
[Jaxon] We were quiet. Completely stunned into silence. This hadn’t been on the list of rumors she’d sent to everyone. No one had ever alluded to it in our discussions of Madeline Shaw. Not one person in the whole town was suspicious. “You’ve known about this the whole time and never told us?” Trace said quietly. “It’s my trump card if she ever got out of control. I warned Becca in the cafeteria, that I could destroy her whole life. She just didn’t realize how much. Then she insulted Jaxon’s mother. Jaxon doesn’t like it when anyone says anything against her. He tenses up and gets cold. I don’t like that.” She responded quietly. I sat next to her and put my arm around her shoulders. She did it for me. I kissed her temple and held her. She was trembling a little. “Are you okay?” “
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