The Lilies by Quinn Diacon-Furtado

Author:Quinn Diacon-Furtado
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2024-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

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It’s not my memory, but I remember being there: feeling defeated, my mascara all smeared. It was not a good look the first time, but Founder’s Night the second time around is not much better.

Archwell girls of all ages are packed together in their cliques. The bread is dry. The canapés are flavorless. There’s a steady flow of champagne and gin. The students camouflage theirs while the alumni brazenly guzzle. We’re all here to celebrate a white man, the founder of Archwell. Given how his granddaughter, the chancellor, and his great-granddaughter, Rory, turned out, I’m not so sure this dude is worth celebrating. There are toasts and speeches and grateful tears choked down to what’s socially acceptable. A cacophony of caucacity. It’s even easier to spot on the second go-around.

I traverse the crowd, finally on my own again. It’s a relief to get away from Rory’s bullshit and get down to business here in the loop. It’s time to make things right, to fix what was broken. If I can just find Charlotte and interrupt whatever horrible thing happened to her, then we can all get out of here. It’s not lost on me that saving Charlotte and freeing us from the loop will have side benefits too. Hopefully, it will give me a solid chance to prove to Drew that I’m not a total fuckup. After what happened with Gabe and the chancellor, Drew didn’t exactly say that they hate me, but I don’t know if they trust me anymore. And I’m realizing that I want them to trust me. I want them to like me. In some way, I feel pulled to them. More than any of the others . . . more than I’m ready to admit. But I can’t think about that right now.

I set about looking for Charlotte, eyes flitting from redhead to redhead. She should be here, assuming she hasn’t already disappeared. As I slide between cliques, I home in on different conversations.

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