Chapter 182

{Harper's POV}

I stared at Madison, and some small, exhausted part of me kept waiting for this to stop being real.

It didn't. It just kept being exactly as real as everything else tonight, sharpened by the specific cruelty of her smile.

"I know you're confused," she said, practically glowing with it. "All the why and how sitting in your head right now. So let me just put it to you plainly."

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