Page 76 of Their Wicked Secrets: Untouched, Vol 5 of 6

The dress Kenz gave her on her birthday. We’ve gone back to see if there was much to salvage in Harper’s room and to clean it before she sees it. Most of her clothes were okay, but the silver dress was mangled beyond repair. She’s going to need a new one.

“Maybe the girls can take her shopping.” I sigh. “She’s never gone to a dance before.”

“Fuck, I’ve never gone to a dance with a date before.” Caden chuckles.

None of us have. We’ve shown up with Emma, Hannah, Ashley, and Sidney, but they weren’t our dates. Most of the time we didn’t leave with them. This is different. We’re going as Harper’s boyfriends.

“We should get her something.” I park behind Caden’s car at Nico’s house. “Flowers, or something pretty.”

“We need to go all out on this.” Caden smirks. “Because if everything ends up going smoothly, I want our girl real appreciative at the end of the night.”

I chuckle and get out of the car. “I guess tonight at the carnival I’ll third wheel with Zach and Harper if they have you guys go around the fairgrounds at all.”

“I never paid attention to this shit. It was always a Luke and Sidney thing.” Caden walks beside me to the door. “I don’t like any of this. It’s a way to separate us from Harper for sure, but what do they have planned?”

“Zach’s not exactly a color inside the lines kind of guy.” I swallow. Something I didn’t mind when he kissed me, but now it worries me. “He doesn’t have a lot of boundaries.”

“And he’s after our girl,” Caden growls before knocking on the door.

“With a truckload of date rape drugs.” Fuck.

We all watched Sidney’s confession. How she took the different ones to see how they’d make her feel. We already talked about not eating or drinking anything not provided by one of us that night.

Any of us.

She tried to drug Luke. They know we won’t let Harper out of our sights.

“Hello, Caden and Jack.” Mrs. Lee smiles at us. “They’re upstairs in his room.”

Caden glances back at me and arches an eyebrow. Yeah, if I had Harper alone in my room, I’d be fucking her. I smirk and shake my head. He leads the way to the stairs.

“Just holler if you want anything,” Mrs. Lee’s voice follows after us up the stairs.

Caden puts his hand up to stop me at Nico’s closed door. He smirks at me as he leans in to listen. Carefully, he turns the knob and opens the door.

Whatever he sees, he just shakes his head and walks in. They’re on the bed, but fully clothed and asleep. Harper is curled over his good side and Nico has his injured knee elevated with his arm around her, holding her close.

“I’d like to say I wouldn’t do the same, but...” The energy drinks are only doing so much right now. They keep me awake, but mentally, I’m a little foggy. I need a good night’s sleep.

Caden jerks on Nico’s uninjured ankle. Nico startles awake and glares at him. But Caden just chuckles.

“Busy night tonight.” Caden keeps his voice low to not wake Harper. “You get reconnaissance.”

Nico sighs. His hand rubs up and down Harper’s back. “I’d rather be there to help protect her.”

“This is how you protect her.” I sit beside them on the bed and slide my hand over Harper’s hip. “We need all the information we can get to take Sidney out. She won’t go down easy and she’s going to try to wreak havoc the whole way out.”

Ashley agreed to wear a wire tonight. We need to figure out if Sidney has more details for her plan for Harper at the dance and how they might conflict with Zach’s plans. The divide between Sidney and the other cheerleaders has become more obvious.

Our hope is that it will make the transition easy. Ashley isn’t someone we can control, but we have mutual goals. At least for now. She doesn’t have a reason to want to destroy Harper. As long as Eli’s plan goes off without a hitch.

Nico nods and rests his head on the pillows, staring at the ceiling.

“I’ll have my eyes on Harper the whole time,” I say.

Nico chuckles. “You need to sleep for like a weekend to recover.”

The guys keep saying that. Even Caden nods in agreement. It’s up to me to unlock all these mysteries. Yeah, the guys can look through pictures and Eli has enough business knowledge to look over the unencrypted files, but someone has to unencrypt them. And while I can have Will Frank work on some stuff, he’s doing it because I bought him. Not out of any sense of loyalty. So what I give him can’t be anything I know might have information we’re desperate for.