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Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

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Or, at least her father was out. The mother said something

during the fight last night about having to catch a plane today.

And Arion was away from her college for a semester

abroad, so Winter was the only other person in the house.

I climbed up from my seat, heading for Will’s door to hop

out. “I won’t take long.”

“Sooooo confident,” Will teased. “GGet a great angle for us,

okay?”

He held up the group cell phone we used to record all our

pranks, and I took it, remembering I had that shot of Winter on

it from last night. If it recorded at all. I’d dropped the phone,

but thankfully it hadn’t broken.

Stuffing it in my back pocket, I flung open the door and

hopped out, pulling up my hood.

“GGot protection?” Will asked.

“Shut the fuck up.”

I slammed the door shut, hearing his chuckle from inside,

and scaled the tree outside the wall, making my way over it in

seconds, because this was not the first time I’d done this.

Landing on my feet, I jogged across the lawn, seeing a few

lights her father left on in the house, my gaze immediately

locking on the windows of the ballroom and hearing the music

from inside. I couldn’t help but smile, knowing she was in

there.

I dug out the key she gave me and pulled off my

sweatshirt, tossing it behind some bushes, because it was

covered in smoke.

Heading around to the backdoor, I unlocked it as quietly as

possible and pushed it open, slipping into the dark kitchen and

instantly hearing the music playing as loud as she wanted,

because no one was home.

I crept down the hallway and through the foyer, veering

right, toward the open ballroom doors with the music growing

louder and drifting up to the ceiling.

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