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Kill Switch by Penelope Douglas

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“At the Throwback last night!” he yelled. “There’s footage

of you two kissing! People were taking pictures! Did he make

you do it?”

What? Pictures… I don’t…

And then I remembered Will and I were dancing, Damon

came up behind me, we started…

People were everywhere. All around us.

And my shoulders fell.

Winter Ashby sent Damon Torrance to jail for statutory

rape, and now she’s crawling in bed with him, of age, and here

was proof she was totally willing this time.

“How could I be so stupid?” I murmured.

In front of everyone.

But it was going to happen anyway, right? It was a small

town. Eventually people would know we were together, and

we’d have to deal with reactions, given our past.

“What is the matter with you?” he snapped like I was a

child. “You had to know people were watching! You sent him

to jail for rape. People were going to remember that. And now

you’re making out with him? It makes you look…”

Like a liar. Yeah, I knew exactly how it made me look.

Sometimes I longed for the time where everything wasn’t

recorded and broadcast for the world to see. Of course it

looked bad.

And now the people who always maintained his innocence

were emboldened more.

“He knew what he was doing,” Ethan continued. “How

could you fall for it? Why would you let him touch you? Did

you not know it was him again?”

I could hear the disbelief in his voice now.

Again.

“Some people were willing to believe you the first time,

but now…” he said. “They’ll never believe he fooled you

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