Dogtooth: Revenant Academy Book II by Kinsey Presley-Hornung

Author:Kinsey Presley-Hornung [Presley-Hornung, Kinsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-10-29T00:00:00+00:00

Isat on the floor, trying to distract myself with coursework while I awaited the cursed red envelope that was sure to slide under my door.

I’d opted to hide out until the next day instead of returning to the scene of the crime to find my foot, so every time I moved, I jumped at the thud of hard plastic at the end of my leg.

Part of me had wanted to go to the Ultor dorm to check on Rigel, but the idea of being around him made my stomach twist. Images of his gaze from the night before danced with Professor Faun’s warning.

Has he helped you, or has he indebted you to him?

Not entirely naïve, I’d had no conviction that Rigel would ever care about me beyond himself or his goals.

But had I not caught flashes of him being genuinely kind? He’d only ever agreed to help me find my history because he wanted my help. It hadn’t even sunk in that, by helping in such a colossal way, he’d skewed my perception of him. I’d blindly walked into danger multiple times since. Maybe I was an idiot.

Once the coast seemed clear enough for me to go looking for my foot, I slipped out of my dorm. I tried to appear casual as I breezed into the dining hall and through the stable, though I could tell Sylvette was watching me suspiciously.

“What are you doing?” someone asked, making me leap back.

Turning, I found Connie clutching a woven basket brimming with eggs.

“Looking for you,” I said, fighting to appear even-keeled.

“Really?”

I slouched against my cane, hoping to effect a sort of forced casualness, though based on her expression, I was not successful. “Did you happen to maybe find something strange out here?”

“You mean aside from these?” she asked, extending the football-sized eggs.

I scratched the back of my head. “Yeah, uh, maybe some spare limbs?”

She eyed me and smirked. “Wild night, then?”

I snorted, my face probably giving away the truth.

“You should ask that groundskeeper,” she said, face scrunching. “She seems protective of you.”

My ears perked up at the discontent in her voice, like she’d experienced the negative side of this protectiveness.

“What are you talking about?”

She shook her head, hurrying for the dining hall. “It doesn’t matter.”

I followed after her, struggling to keep up on the plastic foot. “No, you’re acting strange, and I want to know why.”

“It’s unimportant.”

I pinched the fabric of her sleeve and forced her to slow down. “What did you and Stacy talk about when we visited?”

It had never occurred to me to ask. Neither party had made any indication of there being anything worth mentioning about the encounter. But it had to have something to do with how Connie behaved.

Her eyes scanned the field like they were afraid to settle on me.

“Was she mean?”

Tears welled in her eyes, but she blinked them away.

“There are just some things about me that I can’t explain, even though people want me to. After being trapped for so long, I don’t know, it’s

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