Fractured Fates (The Arrow Hart Academy Book 1) by Hannah Haze

Author:Hannah Haze [Haze, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

I spend the whole day searching for Pip. Winnie helps me despite muttering under her breath about how much trouble we’re going to be in for skipping class. I don’t care. I don’t trust the assholes in this school not to harm him, whether intentionally or not.

It’s my fault he’s here and my responsibility to keep him safe.

By dinnertime and three circuits of the campus later, I have to finally admit defeat though.

He’s not anywhere I’m going to find him. I need a different tactic.

Winnie hugs me as I slump down onto our bedroom floor.

“Maybe if you went and asked Summer nicely …”

“I’m not even sure Summer has Pip. It could be any number of her minions. Or Tristan. Or Spencer. Or half the dueling team. No, wait, probably the entire dueling team.” I slump over my knees. “Even if I groveled at their feet, I can’t see them handing him over.”

“Not without torturing you first,” Winnie concedes. “Maybe you should go to Professor York, after all.”

“Maybe,” I say, chewing my thumb, although I think ratting on the other students will do nothing to increase my popularity and will probably double the likelihood that they’ll hurt Pip.

There’s one other person I could ask for help. I really don’t want to. It would be awkward and weird. But I’ve already swallowed my pride once today; for Pip I can do it again.

I tell Winnie I’m too stressed out to eat and when she leaves the room to go for dinner, I fetch my phone and stare down at the number.

I don’t exactly know how or why I have his number, but when I was adding one of Andrew’s friends to my feeble list of names in my contact list a day ago, I noticed it was there.

It could be another prank. Maybe I’ll phone it and it’ll put me through to some sex line.

I’m kinda desperate though so anything is worth a try.

With sweaty palms, I hit connect and lift the cellphone to my ear, listening to the long drawn out rings. I screw up my eyes, half wanting him to answer, half hoping he doesn’t.

I’m about to give up and disconnect, when the rings halt abruptly and I hear his voice in my ear.

It’s him.

The man in black.

“Rhianna.”

“Hi,” I say.

Silence.

“Did you call for a reason?”

I swallow. “Yes …”

His voice sounds quizzical when he speaks again. “What?”

“My … my pig’s missing. I think someone stole him.”

More silence.

I feel so stupid. I want the ground to open up and swallow me whole.

This is the authorities’ Enforcer. I shouldn’t be calling him about my lost pet.

I shouldn’t be calling him at all.

“And?”

And … I don’t know. I don’t know why I thought he would be able to help me even if he could. He’s probably halfway across the country right now tracking down another unregistered like me.

“Nothing,” I mumble, disconnecting the call and tossing my phone across the room.

I screw up my face and sink down to the floor, hugging my legs to my chest and resting my forehead to my knees.

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