Fear's Touch: A Darkworld Novella (The Darkworld Series) by Emma L. Adams

Author:Emma L. Adams [Adams, Emma L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620078105
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2014-11-16T00:00:00+00:00

didn’t know what to say. Well, how do you respond to something like that? I’d been dropped in the deep end, all right. Barely two days into my new course and the crazy had not only found me, it had wormed its way deep into my life. I could walk away from it now, but that would leave my flatmate at the mercy of the Darkworld—and, possibly, Jude.

Maybe I should have walked away. I never stood up for the bullied kids at school. But looking at Berenice standing there helplessly, I was filled with a burning rage. Before I quite knew what I was doing, I’d turned on my heel and left, shouting over my shoulder. I can’t remember what, something about sorting this out.

I didn’t go back to Cyrus and Howard. I should have, but the rage had taken hold. I’d never been this angry, even after everything that had happened the past few months. Hell, I wasn’t acting like me at all.

That should have been a sign something was up.

But, stupidly, I didn’t question it. I just let my anger control me, lead me out of the common room and into the student village. I didn’t expect to see Jude there. I didn’t plan for it. Yet, I couldn’t help feeling, later, that some part of me had known I’d find him there, in the student village, when I came outside. He stood by the door to the porter’s lodge where all the announcements were pinned up as though he waited for someone.

I stormed over to him, and he looked coldly back at me.

“You.”

“What the fuck did you do to my friend last night?” I demanded. The anger felt raw, almost pleasurable, though another, smaller part of my mind screamed at me to stop, to just walk away.

I ignored it.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Like hell. You spiked her drink, made her hallucinate, and then ditched her in the middle of a shadow-beast attack. Are you really so desperate for a promotion that you’d hurt an innocent girl?”

“Innocent?” Those eyebrows came down. “None are innocent who contact the Darkworld.”

“Can I say, hypocrite? You didn’t answer my question.” I walked right up close to him and jabbed my finger into his chest. “Did you lead her into a trap?”

“I fail to see what business it is of yours.”

“Um, she’s my friend, and you’re not even bothering to deny it. You know I could get you arrested?”

Jude’s hand came up and clenched around my wrist. I gasped as my circulation was cut off.

“Who’s wearing the uniform here?” he said, his lips barely moving, a gleam in his eye. “The police know nothing about the Darkworld, and you and I both know who the Venantium would believe. An unregistered’s word against mine? You’re a fool to even consider challenging me.”

I wrenched my arm free. “You make me sick.”

Fury penetrated every inch of me, and through it, I felt my connection to the Darkworld, cold and sharp as a knife. I’d never felt it this strongly before.

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