Mia picks up her phone and holds it to her chest. “The pics are kind of stalkery, but they aren’t the worst part.”
I swallow and glance toward her phone. I take a breath and open the link she sent me. The posts with the photos are borderline pornographic. Okay, full on pornographic. They say how they want to use me like the Devil’s trio. What exactly they would do to me and make the guys watch.
I put my hand over my mouth, but I can’t stop reading.
“I figured you’d be happy with three hot guys, EvanAnn.” Abby’s voice pulls me back to the present. “I didn’t figure you’d be so desperate to make up a whole other guy to be obsessed over you.”
“What?” I can’t even fathom what she’s saying. “You think I wrote this?”
She chuckles like I’m beneath her. “Let me guess. You have a stalker?” She uses air quotes aroundstalker. “And he’s sodesperate to have you, he made a social media account all about you. Please,” she scoffs. “I don’t know how you’re keeping the Devil’s trio on the hook, but they’ll grow bored of your innocent act soon.”
My insides are numb.
“Did you do this?” Mia stands and gets in Abby’s face.
Abby laughs and holds her hands up. “Why would I spend any amount of time on someone as trashy as EvanAnn?”
“Fuck off, Abby.” Mia pushes her.
Abby straightens and glares at Mia. “Know your place.”
“It’s right here between you and Evan.” Mia glares at Abby. “I tried to be your friend, but fuck, it’s so much fucking work keeping your ego fed. It’s a wonder you’ve ever had a boyfriend. They’d have to be a sycophant to please you.”
“You know, I’ve been nice to you, Mia, but I don’t have to be.” Abby steps up into Mia’s face. “I’m not like Olivia. I know how to bite.”
Hawk strides over to where I am, and Abby turns to him. “Hey, Hawk.”
He ignores her and sits down next to me. He glances at my phone screen and flinches. “We’ve been trying to get it shut down, Annie.”
“Why didn’t you tell me about it?” I ask softly.
“Maybe they thought you’d like it.” Abby looks me over like I’m beneath her again.
Hawk stands and crowds Abby. “Go away, Baker. No one wants you here. If you talk to Annie about anything other than classwork, I’ll make your life hell.”
Abby smirks. “But I look so good in glitter.”
“Go,” his voice is quiet, but deadly.
She seems to take the hint this time and giving me an evil little smile, she walks back over to her table.
“I don’t think she’s behind this.” Mia sits on the other side of me at the table. “As much as I hate her, this is too much work for her, and she’s seriously allergic to work. But then again, she does have money and access to a lot of people who are really smart. She could be using one of them.”
“Whoever is doing this has way too much information and access.” Hawk runs a hand over his hair before sitting beside me and taking my hand. “I’m sorry we didn’t tell you. With everything going on, we were hoping to let you know it was taken down.”
“Is that what Cam’s doing?”
Hawk nods. “Actually, he’s talking to Damon’s guy now, so hopefully we’ll know whether or not he sold out. And we need to double check security. All the photos on the website are PG.”
A shiver of fear runs through my center. If they had access to Damon’s cameras, that would be a catastrophe.
“We have someone checking to make sure there aren’t any videos out there,” Hawk says quietly next to my ear. “If there are any, we’ll take them down and clean up Damon’s cameras.”
“Have you told Damon?” I turn to Hawk.
He gives me a short nod.
“He can’t come home.” I grab Hawk’s wrist. “He needs to stay there.”
