Vicious (Pretty Little Liars, #16) by Sara Shepard EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author Name: Sara Shepard
- Book Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult
- ISBN # 9780062287045
- Date of Publication: 2014-12-2
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BAD NEWS, AND MORE BAD NEWS
On a balmy Thursday morning in mid-June, Emily Fields sat next to her best
friends Hanna Marin, Spencer Hastings, and Aria Montgomery in a large, airy
conference room that overlooked the Philadelphia waterfront. The room
smelled like coffee and Danishes, and the office bustled with the sounds of
ringing phones, whirring printers, and click-clacking high heels on female
attorneys rushing off to court. When Seth Rubens, their new lawyer, cleared
his throat, Emily looked up. By his pained expression, she suspected she
wasn’t going to like what he had to say.
“Your case doesn’t look good.” Rubens stirred his coffee with a thin
wooden stick. He had bags under his eyes, and he wore the same cologne as
Emily’s dad, a summery scent called Royall Bay Rhum. The smell used to
cheer Emily up, but not anymore.
“The district attorney has gathered a lot of evidence against you for
Alison’s murder,” he went on. “You being on the scene when the crime
happened. The shoddy cleanup job. Your prints all over the house. The tooth
they found at the scene. Emily’s, er, episode”—here he glanced nervously at
Emily—“prior to the event. I’m happy to represent you, and I’ll do all I can,
but I don’t want to give you false hope.”
Emily slumped down. Ever since their arrest for the murder of Alison
DiLaurentis—also known as A, their longtime enemy, almost-killer, and
diabolical text-messager—Emily had lost ten pounds, couldn’t stop crying,
and thought she was going crazy. They were all out on bail after only a few
hours in jail, but their trial would begin in five days. Emily had been through
six lawyers, and her friends had done the same. None of the lawyers had
given them hope—including Rubens, who’d allegedly gotten mafia bosses out
of mass-killing charges.
Aria leaned forward and looked the lawyer square in the eye. “How many
times can we explain this? Ali set us up. She knew we were staking out that
pool house. She knew we were getting desperate. That blood was on the floor
when we got there. And we were upstairs when whoever it was cleaned it up.”
Rubens looked at them tiredly. “But you didn’t see who that was, did
you?”
Emily picked at her thumbnail. And then, suddenly, she heard a giddy,
taunting, crystal-clear voice: You didn’t. You know I’ve got you right where I
want you.
It was Ali’s voice, but no one else seemed to hear it. Emily felt another
barb of worry. She’d started to hear Ali a few days ago, and her voice was
growing louder.
She thought about the lawyer’s question. In their hunt for Ali, they’d
targeted a house in Ashland, Pennsylvania, the property of Ali’s boyfriend
Nick Maxwell’s parents. At the very back of the property was a dilapidated
pool house, the perfect place for Ali to hide out and plot her next move
against them. They’d started to monitor the place, but then Spencer
unwittingly told her friend Greg that they’d set up surveillance cameras. In a
horrible turn of events, Greg ended up being an Ali Cat, one of Ali’s online
minions
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