_Jace's Mom: Aria Cole dear, Jace and Ethan's father and I need to see all three of you for dinner tomorrow. 7pm. We saw the LIVE before it was deleted. We need to talk about this arrangement._I read the text three times.Aria Cole dear.She knew my last name."Your mom just texted me," I said, holding my phone up. "She said dinner tomorrow. 7pm. She saw Chloe's LIVE."Jace and Ethan both went silent.Ethan took my phone, read the text, and his face - for the first time since I met him at age 16 - looked nervous."She never texts girls we date," Jace said quietly."She never texts at all," Ethan added. "She makes our father text."Chloe, still sitting on the floor with her blanket, whispered, "Is that bad? That she texted Aria and not you?""It's very bad," Ethan said.Jace sat down hard on the couch. "Our parents saw the LIVE. That means our father saw it too.""Your father?" I asked. I had only met Mr. Hayes twice. Once when I was 16 and my mom and I moved next door, he looked at m
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