Page 94 of Zero Chance

Oaklynn frowned harder at me, letting me know she still didn’t understand.She glanced back at the screen and snorted out a disbelieving sound.“No,” she said.And looking at me with assurance, she claimed, “There’s no way.”

I merely lifted my eyebrows to prove I knew better.

Uncertainty filtered through her gaze before she whipped her attention to Hope who cringed and nodded.

Mouth falling open, Oaklynn gasped, “No fucking way!Are you serious?She…?”She pointed to the laptop.“AndKeene?”

When Hope nodded slowly, her eyebrows lifted with the silent answer of,Yep.Crazy, huh?

Oaklynn pressed a hand to her chest as if she couldn’t find the air to breathe.“Oh my God.I—I—” She shook her head.“I can’t even?—”

Before she could formulate a full sentence, Xander breezed into the kitchen, dressed and ready for the day.“Morning.”

“Girl Union!”I pounced, snatching up the laptop and sending both Oaklynn and Hope a killer glare.“You two, shut it.”

Grabbing her Green Machine drink from the fridge, Xander turned back curiously as she unscrewed the cap.“What’s going on?”she asked uneasily as I approached her with Alec’s computer.

“Do you know who this is?”I asked before anyone else in the room could influence her.

Xander looked at the screen and blinked once.“No,” she said, looking me dead in the eyes.

I might’ve actually believed her if Oaklynn hadn’t gasped from behind me and charged, “Oh my God, youknow!”She threw up a disgusted hand and muttered, “Of course,youalready know.”

Not sure what that meant, I frowned between the two of them before focusing on Xander.“So… You know who Mystery Girl is?”

Her throat worked as she swallowed.Clutching her juice bottle to her chest, she mumbled, “I plead the fifth.”

My mouth fell open.“Seriously?How long have you known?”

Shoulders deflating, she confessed, “Since that night.”

“Holy shit,” I breathed, growing more and more shocked by the moment.But I hadn’t been expectingthistwist.I’d been searching all over campus for some clue, and I should’ve turned to my own fucking roommates.

“And it really chafes,” Xander went on conversationally.“To learn you can actually back up all that bragging and swaggering you do.With the lewd way you talk, you deserve to suck in bed.But no… You just had to go and be the best experience she ever had with a guy.”

I grinned smugly because of course I had been.

Meanwhile, Xander sent the other two women in the room an irritated scowl.“Life just really isn’t fair sometimes.”

“So, wait,” Hope demanded with interest.“She gave youdetails?”

Xander lifted her eyebrows at Alec’s sister.“Oh, honey.I gotallthe tea.”

Oaklynn swayed on her feet, looking a little faint.“I think I need to sit down,” she announced.“This is just—I can’t even picture the two of them doing—you know—anythingtogether.”

“Back up,” I cut in, stepping into Xander’s face.“When I asked yesterday if anyone had been in our house, youliedto me?You lied to my fucking face and let her into my room?”

Xander straightened her back.“No,” she hissed self-righteously.“She didn’t come anywhere near the house yesterday.”Preening, she did a hair flip and added, “I snuck down to your room and took back the underwearforher, replacing it with her note, per her request.”

Wow.

And the hits just kept coming.

Unable to believe her duplicity, I stuttered, “You—you—youtraitor.”

“Hey, I’m not one of the seven,” she announced.“I don’t owe you any loyalty.”

“Yes, you do.You’re my roommate,” I argued aghast that every fucking person in this room knew what I didn’t.And they were refusing to tell me.

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