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That knocked the breath from her. Of course they expelled
him. An unprovoked attack in front of five hundred witnesses.
In vindicating her, he had also left her. She dropped her head.
Alone again in those hallways.
For a minute they let the silence settle between them.
“Can you tell me what happened?” Ash asked. He only
knew she hadn’t said yes. Maybe he pictured roofies in her
drink or some savage attack in the locker room.

She sighed, trying to choose her words. What to include?
What to leave out? “There was a party at Matt’s cabin back
in November. I drank too much and…” She nodded, like
that’s all there was to say. Was she blowing this way out of
proportion?
“And?”
“I blacked out.” She shook her head, trying to rouse

more memories from that moment. “When I woke up in the
morning, Dylan told me we’d had sex.” She stumbled over the
last words. Weird to be talking to Ash about sex, consensual
or not. It violated some too-much-information-from-your-
sibling rule. “I don’t remember anything about it.” She left
out feeling emotionally smashed from that moment forward,
every nerve in her body misaligned.
Ash’s jaw stiffened, clenched tight. A choppy breath left
his body.

“Maybe I seemed into it,” she said. “I don’t know.”
“Did you say yes?”
“I had shaved my legs, like maybe I thought something
was going to happen.”

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