Wealth, status, and beauty define the elite of Kensington Prep. Every one of them possesses the ability to get away with anything and everything they want, unscathed and remain as privileged and superior as ever.
But Amory Scout decides that tim...
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Parker is pacing around in the jet, her heels sinking into the hand-tufted carpet.
"So this whole time Georgina knew about Carlotta?"
Parker repeats, staring at my face deeply to catch a lie. But I nod strongly. "Yeah, as I said, Orson found me in Georgina's room once and I took her phone at her funeral from her room. I had no idea she was talking about in her messages but when Orson saw her phone in my bag, he explained everything and that's when he put together...she had been the one blackmailing him this whole time."
"Orson told me about the texts," Aidan says quietly from the corner. The dark-skinned ex-boyfriend of Carmen Calloway and Orson's right-hand in command is nursing a gin and tonic as he speaks, looking out at the airport runway.
"Yeah, he told me too," admits Hanif darkly. He's staring blankly ahead and it's the most serious I've ever seen him. Such a change from jovial, life-of-the-party Hanif. "He said he's been getting threats from a blocked number, someone pretending to be Carlotta."
"What the fuck," Parker runs a hand through her hair white-blonde hair, "What the actual fuck."
"Calm down," Phineas says to her as the flight attendant on Parker's jet returns with his bourbon and coke. He thanks her politely, ever-so-gracious with his Asian manners, and returns to the conversation.
"But why?" Parker crosses her arms, her eyebrows scrunching.
"Because I think her family was broke," I supply for her. I show them the same image I showed Orson of Georgina's eviction notice.
They all look at it in disbelief. Aidan is the first one to break his silence, his tone full of disgust and hatred. "That's why she came back- for Orson's money."
I nod.
"And Orson found this all out three days ago?" Phineas's warm brown eyes search my face for an answer and I nod again.
"That's why when he started not showing up to school, I was worried. You say it's normal for him to be absent but...after finding out about this? I don't think he'll be in good shape," I sigh and resign myself into the camel-hair upholstery of the jet's chairs while I try not to marvel at the seeds of destruction I've sewn into the group.
Orson disappearing off on me I expected to happen but sadly, I'm not the expert in where Orson Calloway hides away in a deep bout of depression. Which is why I turn to Phineas and Hanif, his closest confidantes, on his whereabouts. Orson is at his most vulnerable now- he had just found out his ex-girlfriend threatened and blackmailed him about one of his darkest secrets. I need to position myself as his saviour, the one he can depend on in a time like this.
"Shit," Hanif swears. He flags down the incoming flight attendant and says to her: "Tell the captain we'll be heading to Las Vegas effective immediately."
"Why Las Vegas?"
"Because," Hanif claps his hands today, "Orsan always said it's Heaven or Las Vegas."
