I swallowed hard. My body trembled as I exhaled.
“What? Why?” I demanded.
“I gotta go. Don’t worry,” he said. Someone said something I couldn’t quite make out but I could hear the sharpness of their tone. “Goodbye.”
He ended the call. My pulse raced as I stared at my phone.
“Alyssa!” my mom said loudly as if she’d said my name a hundred times.
“Hmm?” I asked looking toward her as I tried to make sense of what Tyler had said. It felt like my head was trapped inside a thick, gray cloud of despair.
“Was that Tyler?” she asked.
I nodded.
“Should I call the police?” she asked with urgency dripping out of her widened eyes.
I shook my head. “He said not to.”
She looked relieved but she didn’t look any less worried. “Do you think he was telling the truth?”
“I don’t know, mom,” I said my voice cracking with each word. I was trying to hold it together.
The students at Vestamont High were even worse than I thought. How far would they go to get what they wanted?
Maybe they’d do the unthinkable.
Maybe that was what had happened to Piers Howard.
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About the Author
Indi Bluehart loves writing characters that aren’t perfect. She loves her characters to learn and grow and eventually find their happy ending. Usually.
Her debut, Thin Skin, is an episodic serial romantic suspense packed with secrets, lies and an intriguing mystery.
Indi loves her iced coffee black and is convinced she could live on cheese alone. She also has a large collection of empty notebooks because they are just too pretty to write in. Indi lives in Minnesota with her two cats.
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