Olivia Decoded by Vivi Barnes

Author:Vivi Barnes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: computer hacking, Oliver Twist, Mr. Robot, Ally Carter, Gallagher Girls, The Specialists, reunited lovers
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

LIV

It’s hard to concentrate on anything at school. I find myself staring out the window at the bright sunlit day. If the windows weren’t rimmed in white, I’d swear it was a warm spring morning outside.

Emerson is quiet at lunch. Kade even notices, poking her side and asking what’s wrong. She just looks at me and tells him nothing. Qualities about Jack that I find intriguing, she finds questionable. The laid-back cynical attitude of his that disappears when he’s with me doesn’t do anything for her. And I know she’s figured out he is, or was, involved in something illegal. She mentioned the fact that I said “boss” when we went to bed last night, but I pretended I was too tired to talk. She stared at his Ducati this morning and looked at me as if accusing him of stealing it. And she really hated that I told him I love him.

I don’t know why I said it myself, except that it was probably the alcohol. Not that I don’t love him. Deep down, I know I do. But I am also realistic enough to get that it will never work between us. I’m sure he realizes it, too.

I smile slightly. Even knowing that after we figure all this out, Jack will disappear again, I wouldn’t trade what happened between us for anything.

“Still walking around like a grinning idiot?” Emerson says, coming up behind me after school.

“I guess so.”

“So what’s this guy Jack’s last name?” she asks.

“Uh-uh,” I tell her. “You’re not looking him up.”

“Why not? Have you searched for him?”

“You can’t. He’s unsearchable.” I say it without thinking, and kick myself after I do.

She stops, tapping her finger against her chin. “Unsearchable? The only people I’ve heard of being unsearchable are either spies or criminals.”

I keep walking, my body numb. She catches up with me. “So he is a criminal? Really, Liv?”

“Shut up,” I tell her in a harsh whisper. I glance around, but no one is paying attention to us. “Listen. I said things I shouldn’t have, and I’m sorry about that, but you need to leave this one alone, okay?”

“You can’t just pretend that everything is fine,” she says. “He’s going to screw up your life.”

I stop and glare at her. “He’s the one who helped me fix my life in the first place. You don’t know anything about the way things were before.”

“No, I wouldn’t know because you never tell me anything.”

“Well, maybe this is why,” I tell her. Her eyes widen, and she opens her mouth. I hold up a hand. “I don’t need you to be a mother, Em. What I need is a friend, but I guess that’s asking too much.”

I walk on, faster now, tears spilling down my cheeks as I push open the doors leading out of the school. My one friend here, the only best friend I’ve ever had, and I’m running away from her. I should’ve known, though. I let her too far into my life, and she couldn’t handle it.

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