24
AVA
“You’re blackmailing people?”
I was furious. And trembling. And my God, I couldn’t stop shaking so I sat on my hands. But I kept glaring because that was really important. Glaring. Letting him see how enraged I was, and my word, I—I didn’t know what else I was feeling because it was all rolling together in my tummy, in one molten ball of lava.
His eyebrows shot up. “How do you—” Wariness came over him. “Aspen?”
“Yes, Aspen. She called me and told me what you were going to do.”
He cursed, looking away.
“Are you kidding me? Do you know how much trouble you’re going to get into for this?”
He looked back, his eyebrows furrowing together. “I’m not, that’s the point.”
“Zeke—”
“No, Ava. Listen. This is what we do, in my group of people. We blackmail and we burn buildings down and
