BooksBarbecue
Back Keystone Save as PDF
Chapters (53)
  1. Dedication
  2. Chapter One
  3. Chapter Two
  4. Chapter Three
  5. Chapter Four
  6. Chapter Five
  7. Chapter Six
  8. Chapter Seven
  9. Chapter Eight
  10. Chapter Nine
  11. Chapter Ten
  12. Chapter Eleven
  13. Chapter Twelve
  14. Chapter Thirteen
  15. Chapter Fourteen
  16. Chapter Fifteen
  17. Chapter Sixteen
  18. Chapter Seventeen
  19. Chapter Eighteen
  20. Chapter Nineteen
  21. Chapter Twenty
  22. Chapter Twenty-One
  23. Chapter Twenty-Two
  24. Chapter Twenty-Three
  25. Chapter Twenty-Four
  26. Chapter Twenty-Five
  27. Chapter Twenty-Six
  28. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  29. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  30. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  31. Chapter Thirty
  32. Chapter Thirty-One
  33. Chapter Thirty-Two
  34. Chapter Thirty-Three
  35. Chapter Thirty-Four
  36. Chapter Thirty-Five
  37. Chapter Thirty-Six
  38. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  39. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  40. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  41. Chapter Forty
  42. Chapter Forty-One
  43. Chapter Forty-Two
  44. Chapter Forty-Three
  45. Chapter Forty-Four
  46. Chapter Forty-Five
  47. Chapter Forty-Six
  48. Chapter Forty-Seven
  49. Epilogue
  50. Preview of Malice
  51. Preview of Incognito
  52. Acknowledgments
  53. About the Author

“We all have our own rooms, though,” she says, pressing a button on a remote. The walls rotate around us, revealing four small bedrooms. “Unless you two want to room together.” Grinning, she has zero regard that Garrett and Kyran are listening. “That can be arranged.” She presses another button, and the wall between the two bedrooms on the right retreats.

“Rayelle!” My cheeks get hot. “Absolutely not,” I say before Garrett can answer—or get any ideas. He’d probably love to torture me all night with quizzes on how to tell if someone is lying or best stalking practices.

I glance at him, but he doesn’t acknowledge me. He’s busy reading a book with a kidney on the cover.

“Unless you want to share, Kyran,” she says. “Elisha likes her privacy. I, on the other hand, don’t need walls…”

I raise my eyebrows at her, silently saying, we need to talk!

“No thanks.” Kyran takes the remote and puts up the wall.

Rayelle plops onto the couch, unfazed.

“So you’re allowed to tell us what your heist is?” I ask, sinking down next to her.

“I guess.” She shrugs, looking to Kyran for confirmation.

“We’re supposed to steal a ring,” he says.

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-One

March 20X6, San Francisco

I can’t sleep. I’ve been tossing and turning all night, even though we stayed up late listening to the details of Kyran and Rayelle’s heist and I should be exhausted. It turns out their heist is also to steal a ring, but it’s a different ring than the one Garrett and I are after. They’re supposed to steal a Byzantine-era Italian ring from the de Young Museum and give it to us. We have no idea what we’re supposed to do with it—hopefully it will all make sense once they give us the ring—but that’s the least of my worries.

How am I going to walk into the Influencer world tomorrow? What if the cameras recognize me? Do I even remember how to act like an Influencer?

My mind is racing. Needing a distraction and hoping recalling the details of Influencer life will help me prepare for meeting Nicki tomorrow, I take out my journal.

…

June 25, 20X5

Truth: I am never trapped. There is always a new world beyond the bubble, just waiting to be discovered.