Firstborn Academy: Shadow Trials by Isla Frost

Author:Isla Frost [Frost, Isla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JFP Press
Published: 2019-09-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

I’d thought I’d gotten away with the night’s snooping.

I was wrong.

I’d also expected to wake up face-first on the floor with my mattress on top of me after the wardrobe incident. But I was wrong about that too.

Ameline beat Millicent to it.

“Where the heck were you last night?” she demanded, concern etching her features. “I woke up and you were gone. And when I tried to go looking for you, Millicent wouldn’t let me out.”

I thought about that for a moment and figured it must have been when Millicent had me locked up and wanted to prevent anyone coming to my rescue.

Or maybe she just wanted to prevent her favorite Ameline from getting into trouble.

“Um. I went to the bathroom?” I tried—not sounding the least bit convincing.

It was way too early for an interrogation.

Ameline crossed her arms. “I waited up for you. For ages. But you were gone so long I must’ve fallen asleep.”

By now, Bryn was stirring from her own slumber. She sat up, rubbing her eyes and making no attempt to pretend she wasn’t listening with avid interest.

“Out with it,” Ameline ordered. “All of it.”

Bryn smirked. “Yes, I’d like to hear it too.”

People often mistook Ameline’s softness for weakness. I knew better. She might be sweet-natured and amiable about most things, but once she drew a line in the sand, so help you if you crossed it.

I could see by the set of her jaw that this was one of those times. So I told them.

The set of Ameline’s jaw did not improve throughout my tale. Meanwhile, Bryn was all but bouncing on her bed—especially when I described breaking my way into the locked chest.

When I’d finished, Ameline gave me a dark look. “We’re supposed to be in this together. You could’ve been hurt!”

“Yes,” Bryn added, “and if you’re going to go on fun life-endangering adventures in the middle of the night, the polite thing to do would be to invite us along.”

Ameline’s gaze flitted to Bryn—something I was grateful for just then.

“Um, well, missing out on fun wasn’t exactly what I was afraid of, but I suppose the end result is the same.”

Her gaze returned to me.

“You’re not to go sneaking off alone again. You either cease your nighttime activities, or you take us with you.”

The stubborn set of Ameline’s jaw was still there, and Bryn was throwing her knife, spinning it into the air and catching it again, hilt first. Perhaps to signal she’d be a useful companion on a late-night jaunt. Or because she had trouble sitting still.

Either way, it was obvious they weren’t about to take no for an answer.

I wanted to protect Ameline. Needed to protect her. But maybe in this case, that meant bringing her along.

The first trial proved we were stronger together. It also proved that the danger Dunraven had warned us about was real. And since no one would tell us what happened to those who failed the three-month trial phase, we had to be among the students that passed.

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