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  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
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  46. Acknowledgments
  47. About the Author
  48. A Sneak Peek of You Will Be Mine
  49. 1
  50. Back Cover

She’s halfway down the corridor now. The room on the end at the left is room zero. Please don’t be open. From the high angle of the camera and the poor picture quality, it’s impossible to tell which door has been left open an inch.

No one else has picked up on the room zero possibility yet…or, like me, they’re too scared to say it aloud.

Lucie shuffles farther down. She’s almost at the end; she’s going into either room five or room zero.

My heart stutters as she takes another step forward.

The screen goes black.

“What!” I snap.

“No! Lucie!” Priya shouts. “Oh my God, why would they do that?”

She turns to me like I have the capability to answer her question.

“They’re evil,” Theo says. “That’s all there is to it. Which one of them do you think will come back?”

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I think Kevin will end up killing Lucie. But I’m not going to say it.

“What do you mean, which one will come back?” Priya asks, frowning at Theo.

“Come on, Priya. Kevin has been gone a while, and now they call someone else in,” he says. He sounds annoyed that she’s even asking, but Priya doesn’t think like those monsters. She doesn’t see the opportunities they have and what they could do with them.

I envy her that. I constantly think about how they could make things worse for us.

Priya shakes her head. “No.”

“Oh my God!” Hazel gasps, finally catching on to what we’re talking about. “They’re both going to room zero!”

That’s what it looks like. Maybe Kevin really has been waiting in there this whole time.

Priya turns from us, dipping her chin. “You’re wrong.”

Possibly, but we never get the best-case scenario here.

What is happening with Kevin? Is he still alive? Where has he been? Did they open the front door for him, too, and he failed the test? There are too many possibilities and none of them are nice. He hasn’t managed to get away, or the cops would have raided this place by now.

“I can’t lose either of them,” Priya confesses. “Lucie was the first girl in here in a while. We bonded even though we’re nothing alike. And Kevin…”

“I know,” I say. “Priya, remember, we don’t know for sure yet. Okay? We’re just speculating.”

“Because there’s a reason to!” she cries, spinning back around to face me. “You think that’s what’s happened. Why else would Kevin still be out there somewhere? They were waiting to see who they wanted to go into that hell with him!”

My stomach sinks. Now she is thinking like them, and it’s all our fault.