Deny Me_A Paranormal Romance by Jayla Kane

Author:Jayla Kane [Kane, Jayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Raven

I felt my heart in my throat. I was ashamed of how terrified I became, so quickly.

Jake and I sat on this floor for a little over two hours, diligently grinding through assignments that had laid dormant and neglected while we were wrapped up in our own interior drama, unpredictable magic, and terrifying invasions of privacy—not mine. The one perpetrated by unknown members of the Society.

Were they here?

Jake got up and moved across the room with grim purpose, his handsome face stony. He shoved the chair back and pulled the towel away, ripping the door open as the floor began to slightly shake beneath his feet—and then abruptly stopped. “Sarah?”

“Master Jacob,” the woman said, dipping her head to him in a dated, formal gesture. Sarah, like Anna, had worked here as long as I could remember. She wasn’t anything like her downstairs counterpart, being prim and still and difficult, at times, to even notice; she stood in the shadows when we were children and never once stopped us from having a good time, so no matter her slightly creepy aura she certainly wasn’t someone I considered potentially harmful. My heart started to slow down. “So glad you’re home.” She turned and bowed her head slightly in my direction, never meeting my eyes. “Mistress Keller.”

I was never Raven to her; all the same, the fact that she’d always shown me such a high level of respect—and everyone else—made me like her. She wasn’t snobby. Just intensely, strangely formal. “Sarah? Are you okay?” If anything, Jake looked confused. He glanced down at me, and I realized he was trying to see if I could read her mind. When I tried—an effort that took an embarrassing amount of effort—I saw nothing. Her mind was completely blocked off to me.

“Sir, I am very well, thank you for asking.” Sarah’s choice of words always made it seem like she should have a British accent, but she didn’t. “I was coming to ask you to attend dinner tonight with Miss Keller on Lady Mina’s behalf.” Mina was hardly a lady, but I wasn’t about to say that. Jake seemed to hear me, though, and the corner of his mouth quirked up.

“Why?”

“She was alerted to your presence,” Sarah said, unruffled as usual, “and requested you attend.”

“Sarah, you tell her—”

“She wanted both of us to come?” I stared at Sarah, and Jake caught my meaning and glanced back and forth between us. “She knew I was here?”

“Yes, Miss,” Sarah said, placid and still in the doorway.

“Jake, we—”

“We’ll be there,” Jake said suddenly, nodding quickly at Sarah as she stepped back into the hall. He closed the door before crouching down beside me. “Raven, we have to go. If they know you’re here, there’s a chance—”

“Jake, they don’t know shit,” I said, shaking my head at him. “And I don’t want to see Lucas. Or Mina.” They hurt you, I thought, then buried it. I hated them as much as anyone could hate anything. His face was distractingly

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