Page 166 of Their Wicked Secrets: Untouched, Vol 5 of 6

He nods, his blue eyes wary. “I doubt it will still be there Monday, but if it is, we’ll have someone report it. Not that they’ll find anything to tell them who planted it. It doesn’t have storage on it, just sends the live feed to a computer for storage. But I may be able to see where the video was sent and grab the file. Zach’s upped his security on his computer, but I can still get in.”

He puffs his chest out with pride. There aren’t many who can stop Jack when he wants something.

Luke releases Harper, but for a second, she holds on like she’s afraid to let go. I meet Luke’s eyes. His are determined. We’re on the same page. This girl is everything to us. When I look at Eli and Jack and Nico, I see it in them too.

Whatever it takes, Harper makes it out of this unscathed.

“We need to take my mom to the quarry tomorrow.” Harper pulls away from Luke. He caresses her hair as she backs toward her seat between me and Jack. “The longer we leave it the more likely someone else might find that other SD card first.”

In the video from Sean, he mentioned recording the meeting and stashing the SD card somewhere only Jennifer could find. The trail cam must have been a backup, but there could be damning evidence in that quarry. Something that would free us of our fathers’ plans.

“We can do that.” Eli rubs his hands together between his knees as he lifts his gaze to us. “Anyone else hear anything tonight?”

“Penny is going to talk to Vicky.” Harper blows out a breath. “Ashley told her that Vicky is the one spying on her for Mr. Foster.”

“What does Penny plan to do?” Eli cocks an eyebrow at Harper. He wouldn’t want Penny to waste this opportunity.

Harper runs a hand over her hair and her eyes meet Eli’s. “She wants to know how deep Vicky’s loyalties go. We talked about it briefly, but she’s not sure how to handle it. They’ve been friends since kindergarten off and on.”

A memory of the photos on the wall at Harper’s house flashes through my mind. “You had friends in kindergarten, little nympho.”

Eli looks at me like I just grew an extra head.

“What?” Harper tilts her head at me like she doesn’t understand the words coming out of my mouth. Yeah, that was a stretch.

I smirk and reach out to brush a strand of her hair off her cheek. It’s been in the back of my mind, along with the desire to share my art with her and get her to share her art with me. So many things we still need to learn about each other.

“There’s a picture of you when you were little with a bunch of little girls. I saw it on your wall. I didn’t get a close look at it.” It never really registered after her birthday. There was just too much going on afterward. Is it important right now? Not really, but fuck, I want to know. I want to know everything she hid from us for so many years.

Her brow furrows like she’s trying to remember. “I haven’t looked at those pictures in years. I’m not even sure if I remember who was in them. The only one I tried to stay friends with moved away.”

“Caroline?” Nico asks. My chest burns with jealousy. It’s like he has this insight into her past we’ll never have. I’m willing to share, but I’m fucking greedy and want all of her. Every thought. Every hope. Every dream.

Harper nods. “Yeah, but we didn’t keep in touch. I don’t even remember where she moved to.”

She turns to me and puts her hand on my thigh. Awareness sizzles through me. “What made you think of it?”

I shrug. “Girls, friends, kindergarten. I saw it on your birthday and wondered about it, but other things became more important. There’s a lot we still don’t know about each other.”

“We have time.” Harper smiles softly. Her eyes sparkle in the light, and I just want to take her in my arms and keep her there until all this bullshit is over with.

Time. A future. Together. Both are waiting for us on the other side of this crap.

I lower my head and brush my lips across hers. “We do.”

I just need to make sure Tanner and Zach don’t steal that time out from under me.

Harper

I sit back and listen absentmindedly while Jack tells the guys basic stuff he learned from hanging out with Mike and Emma and the guys tonight. Who’s been hanging out with whom. New couples. Breakups. That kind of thing.

A lot of names I’ve known for years, could even put a face to some. Did they ever know mine? Could they pick me out of a line-up? Am I just as invisible as I’ve ever been? No one knows me. They know me as the horsemen’s girlfriend. Not as Harper Davidson.

Caden asking me about the girls from kindergarten weighs on me. Why can’t I remember their names? It’s so long ago and really was less than a blip in my life. I couldn’t hold on to those girls.

Would Mom remember? It just became too much to try to see those girls outside of school. They didn’t live within walking distance like Nico. And they saw each other without me until they had all these inside jokes and shared experiences that I couldn’t catch up with. I wasn’t part of them. I got left out.

Caroline was the one I connected with the most, and she stayed my friend, at least at school, until her family moved away. I don’t even remember the day that picture was taken. I could text my mom about them, but why?