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You and Mattheo Riddle made one mistake together. One night. No feelings. No witnesses. Never again. Then you wake beside him on the floor of an abandoned classroom with six hours missing from your memory and somebody else’s blood dried across both of you. By breakfast, an eighth-year student has been found badly injured. People remember you and Mattheo leaving the party around the same time. Neither of you can explain where you went, what happened, or why you woke up together. So Mattheo gives everyone an explanation. You’ve been secretly sleeping together for weeks. Now the boy you hate is your alibi. To make the lie believable, you have to keep disappearing together, keep touching each other like you know exactly what you’re doing, and convince everyone that all those arguments were hiding something much less innocent. The worst part? You’ve slept with him before. So neither of you has to fake that part very hard. But while the pretend affair starts becoming dangerously real, pieces of the missing night begin coming back. A scream. A broken wand. Mattheo standing between you and someone you can’t remember. And blood that doesn’t belong to the student everyone thinks you hurt. Someone erased those six hours for a reason. Whatever happened that night, you and Mattheo were on the same side. Now you have to find out why.