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CHAPTER 29
~Jade's POV~
I couldn't answer him, and Xade's gaze darkened. "Tell me who hurt you."
His voice was calm, but it carried weight, the kind that made it clear he wasn't going anywhere until I spoke. The garden felt too quiet all of a sudden, like the world had leaned in to listen.
"Tales of Spice." I swallowed. "The school's gossip centre. Someone…" My throat tightened, and the rest refused to come out.
Xade stiffened. It was subtle, but I felt it in the way his arm tensed around me. His eyes turned darker. Then after about a thirty seconds, he looked down at me.
"You… someone posted your nudes," he finished for me, carefully, like he was trying not to make the words hurt more than they already did.
I flinched anyway.
There was a sharp, distant look in his eyes, the kind he got when he was thinking too fast and too far ahead. I knew that look now. He was mind-linking his brothers. One of them. Maybe all of them.
