Don't Mess with the Girl with Candy novel Chapter 729

“Remember I told you about Specter from Subterra Vanguard?” Shanley began, lifting his head. The light cast sharp angles across his handsome face.

“Yeah, I remember,” Jimmie said with a slight frown. “Isn’t he your arch-nemesis? The one who’s always working against you? Why are you bringing him up when I’m asking about Juniper?”

“Juniper is Specter.” It took all of Shanley’s strength to force out those three words.

“What?” Jimmie shot upright, his voice full of disbelief. “Juniper is Specter, the leader of Subterra Vanguard?”

Shanley’s silence was all the confirmation Jimmie needed. He fell silent too, his expression turning even darker than Shanley’s. He knew the whole story between Shanley and Specter—the manhunts, the assassinations, the hijacked ships, the sabotage. He knew that several times, Shanley had come dangerously close to taking Specter’s life. The most successful attempt involved a bullet to the head. He’d heard Specter barely survived.

If that was true, then Shanley had almost murdered his own girlfriend years ago.

“I didn’t know back then…” Shanley said, sinking onto the sofa. He turned his head, unable to meet Jimmie’s gaze. “We only found out each other’s identities when we clashed in Moralia Country. Juniper got angry and flew home without me.”

He summed up the reveal in a few brief sentences, conveniently omitting the part where he had kidnapped her friend and threatened her.

“She’s not at Cloudscape Community?” Jimmie asked, looking at Shanley with a deep stare, forcibly swallowing the curses on the tip of his tongue. “Or the university?”

“No,” Shanley shook his head. “Besides her apartment and school, the most likely place she’d go is to one of you.”

Jimmie ran a hand through his hair, feeling like the air had been knocked out of him. “I’ll call Harold, Melvin and Ebony Fox.”

“Wait,” Shanley said, his eyes snapping up. He wet his lips, his voice low and guilty. “Can you hold off on telling her sister for now?”

Ebony Fox had a temper even worse than Juniper's. If she found out, she would tear him to shreds.

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