CHAPTER 170HYPOCRITES IN HUMAN SKINALEXANDERI laughed until I no longer felt the betrayal. The sound echoed through the ballroom, bouncing off the walls and filling every corner of the frozen crowd. Faces stared back at me with confusion, unease, uncertainty written all over them. No one knew how to react or if I had lost my mind.Maybe I had.Because in the middle of my laughter, my eyes found Matheiu. He was standing near the back, close to Élise. His hand was at his side, and in it was a remote control. The kind that advanced slides.The world didn't stop this time… it snapped into focus.How the hell did I not notice this any sooner!? How didn't I see that he was in cohorts with Elise!?Elise was smiling beside him, throwing me a wink. Of course.In that moment, the laughter died in my throat.I felt like a fool. A complete, utter fool. I trusted Matheiu, brought him back into my home, into my confidence and into my war. And all along he'd been feeding information to her. H
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