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In today’s new chapter, “Football Season Is Over,” Rory’s got a plan to pass judgment on the campus rapists from the news. The question is, can he go through with it.
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CHAPTER
THIRTY-TWO
“Football Season Is Over”
story by Mabel Harper & Emrys Webb
written by Emrys Webb
They’d hung out all day by the construction site where Ethan Kirkpatrick worked, then followed him.
Now, about an hour later, Rory and Fabi were watching the ex-football player from a corner booth in a sports bar on Dearborn, where he’d met up with some of his former teammates—including, as it happened, his literal partner in crime, Jordan Knight.
The two of them linking up was a stroke of luck that made it feel like destiny was on Rory’s side.
Bryce Archer himself, he and Fabi had agreed, was unlikely to show his face. Since his release on Wednesday, word had it Archer’d been hunkered down under tight security in his father’s mansion in Winnetka, scared into hiding by the mountain of death threats he’d received.
But both his accomplices at once would do for a nice warmup act.
Rory flexed his fingers, fiddled with his empty glass. Fabi eyed him. “You okay, B?”
They’d done key bumps earlier to make sure Rory wouldn’t lose his nerve. He’d been raring to go afterward, pumped for the moment Knight or Kirkpatrick would wander off to take a leak or have a smoke—when he’d have his chance to ambush them.
But both of them had lingered at the bar long enough now that Rory’s high had passed its peak, and now he was just feeling jittery and anxious.
FORM AND VOID 