A Dark Inheritance (The Broken Scythe Series Book 1) by Cora May

Author:Cora May [May, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Glass Spider Publishing
Published: 2019-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: CHANTA

S he felt like she was being watched.

It was some time in the middle of the night. It had been such a long day, after such a long week. She had hoped for a nice, long, restful night so that she could start doing some solid thinking in the morning. That wouldn’t be possible, though, with the feeling of being watched.

She turned around in her bed. Her eyes were still squeezed shut, but she was preparing to bust whoever was sneaking around on her.

In three…

Two…

One!

She opened her eyes, glaring into the darkness with a growl that matched her angry brow. The darkness, though, prevented her from focusing on anything in particular. She held her angry face until her eyes adjusted, and prayed that they would adjust soon so that she wouldn’t look too silly.

“Oh good,” Brin said from above.

Chanta jumped at the sound despite her angry resolve. She hadn’t expected her own roommate to be the stalker. Sure enough, as she looked upwards, Brin’s head was poking out from the top bunk and staring straight down at her.

Chanta’s eyes had adjusted by then, the soft moonlight revealing enough of the room that she could tell that there wasn’t anything else in the room. Addy’s soft breathing from across the room said that she was asleep still, and the soft tone of Brin’s voice told her the same story. Brin was trying to keep this quiet, trying to keep Addy out of it.

“You’re awake,” Brin continued. “I was thinking… Want to take a walk with me?”

Chanta’s angry face had changed to shock and confusion over the brief time her eyes had been opened. She stared back at Brin, trying to decide if she was serious or not. The light of the moon wasn’t enough to decipher the features of her face, though.

“What time is it?” she asked instead.

“It’s about a quarter till midnight,” Brin answered, her tone staying light. “What do you think? Let me show you around a little bit!”

“We’ve already done that, and it’s nearly midnight,” she argued. “Isn’t it a little late for a stroll around the castle? I’m sure we’d get in trouble anyway, wouldn’t we?”

Brin didn’t say they would, but she paused briefly. That was answer enough for Chanta—it was against the rules to be parading around in the middle of the night. She wondered what Brin’s idea was.

“We should just go to sleep,” she said, turning around and tugging the blankets tight around her.

Brin did just the opposite, though. Her dainty little body jumped right off the bed. She didn’t even bother using the ladder. She landed so quietly, Chanta had to look over to make sure she had really seen what she thought she had. Sure enough, Brin was standing over her now, feet on the ground. She was wearing the same pajamas she had gone to bed in, and her feet were bare. Her curly light brown hair was unkempt, but not from sleep. It was as if she had run her fingers through her hair, pulling and tugging and definitely not sleeping.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.