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Chapter 1: THE TRUTH THEY WANTED BURIED

The slap cracked through the hallway outside the principal’s office before anyone had time to stop it. Sixteen-year-old Ethan Cole felt his head snap sideways, his cheek burning as the…
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Chapter 1: THE BOY WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT

  The chair disappeared beneath me before I had even finished opening my lunch, and for one terrifying second, I felt the entire world tilt backward. My fingers closed around…
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Chapter 1: The Boy Who Refused to Lower His Eyes

The punch landed with a sickening crack, snapping Leo Bennett’s head sideways and sending his thick silver glasses sliding halfway off his face, but the most frightening thing about what…
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Chapter 1: The Boy Nobody Defended

The chair vanished from beneath me before I even realized someone had touched it. One moment, I was sitting at the far end of the cafeteria table, opening my lunch…
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Chapter 1: THE BOY WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT

The first thing I heard was the plastic lunch tray hitting the cafeteria floor. The second was the laughter of nearly thirty students who had already taken out their phones.…
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Chapter 1: The Boy Who Refused to Fight

  The dodgeball struck my face so hard that my glasses flew across the gym floor, but the thing I remember most wasn’t the pain. It was the laughter. Twenty…