VIVIENNE

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Elena sat back down beside me and folded her hands on the table like she hadn't just lit her whole life on fire in front of a judge, and I couldn't stop shaking.

She'd done that for me. For Liam. She'd stood up in open court and put every bit of it on her own back so the word "tampering" would never touch Damon or me, and the worst part, the part I couldn't breathe around, was that I'd helped her hold those records. I'd kept the copy. I was every bit as in it as she was, and ...