Delicate Depraved Plans (Lies & Secrets Duet Book 2) by Ebony Brewer

Author:Ebony Brewer [Brewer, Ebony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Salacious Publishings
Published: 2022-11-30T18:30:00+00:00

26

Knight

It’s been a week since that blissful phone call with Remi. Although it was cut short when one of the nameless night guards knocked on our door to do a room check. As much as it physically pained me to say goodbye, not knowing when we’d get another chance, I had to hang up and hide the phone.

If we were caught with it… I don’t even want to think about the horrendous things that we’d have had to endure.

This school is more like a torture boarding camp for assholes. We’re talked down to, picked on, pushed to our limits. In the few long ass weeks since Duke and I arrived, I’ve realized that the end goal here isn’t getting the students to graduate with at least some semblance of an education.

It’s to break us down until we’re begging for an end.

Two kids have vanished over night just in the last week. They were both given detention after not doing a suitable job of mopping the mess hall after dinner one night. The following few days, neither of them showed up in classes, and I didn’t see them during meals or walking in the hallway at night. Just as I was starting to grow uneasy, they returned.

Only it wasn’t them. Not really. Those kids came back bruised and beaten to within an inch of their lives, quiet and so fucking scared that they jumped at the drop of a pencil in class. Two days later, they were both gone again, and this time, I get the feeling they won’t miraculously show up.

Gritting my teeth through the pain in my leg, I heft another bag of potatoes over my shoulder and start the long journey back from the gate where deliveries are dropped off to the school down the hill. It’s raining and the gravel path beneath my feet has turned to mud, but I push myself to keep quiet and follow orders despite everything raging inside me.

I won’t do anything to risk detention. Fuck no.

Duke is a step behind me, panting and cursing under his breath. I shake my head, a cutting retort on the tip of my tongue about his need to work out more, but the guard watching us a few feet away ensures I keep my lips sealed firmly shut.

I’m almost to the back of the school. The light spilling over the wet ground from the open cafeteria door is calling to me. This was the last trip to the delivery truck and then I can shower away my agony and elevate my leg for the rest of the night.

Only steps away, my knee gives out as I slip in a muddy pothole. Dropping the bag of potatoes, I instinctively brace my hands out in front of myself to catch my fall, slamming my eyes shut in anticipation of the pain that landing on my leg will surely cause. Before I can crash to the floor, someone grabs my shoulder and wrenches me back, stopping my fall by seconds.

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