Grimmstead Academy by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten – Felice

Since I couldn’t go pout in my room and watch TV, I went to the library. Yes, Grimmstead had its own library, chock full of books you’d never knew existed unless you were searching for them. It wasn’t a fun library, no fiction books, and definitely no romances. There was literally nothing to do; I would’ve taken any smutty book greedily at this point.

I didn’t head to the tall shelves. Instead, I went towards the windows in the back. They overlooked the expansive backyard, and the forest that held Payne’s little cemetery. I crossed my arms as I leaned on the glass, not knowing why Lucien wouldn’t do something. Killing animals and bottling up their blood was not something a sane person did, and to excuse his behavior was wrong.

If Lucien excused his behavior, then he was just as insane as Payne.

My eyes closed, and I leaned my forehead on the glass, soaking in the sun’s rays. If I could just pretend everything else didn’t exist, like everything was normal, that would be great.

The heat soaked through the windowpane, touching my skin and warming me up. Hotter and hotter my skin became until I started to sweat. That…that wasn’t right. The window was warm, but not that warm. Why was I…

All thoughts vanished the moment I opened my eyes.

No longer did I stand, leaning on the tall window in the library of Grimmstead. I now stood in a familiar office, a place I’d been to so many times before. Lucien’s office, only one thing was different, and that was the growing fire ebbing from his desk, the flames growing so tall and wide the bookcases on both walls caught fire, too.

What? But how? I didn’t…

Everything around me burned, the smell of ashes and cinders rank in my nose. What was worse? It wasn’t a bad smell. Something about its thick taste was addicting, and I breathed in deeply in spite of myself, despite the fact that I shouldn’t be here.

I’d just been in the library moments ago, and now this? I was…confused.

When the smell of burning paper filled my lungs, I gazed at the desk, at its charred wood and the smoldering fire atop. I wanted to touch it, to feel its heated flames lick the skin off my bones. There truly was nothing more beautiful, more destructive, than fire.

But then I blinked, and suddenly I was back in the library, leaning against the window. My heart beat a mile a minute, my flesh spiked in heat that…had come from my own mind? If I was confused before, I was ten times more so now.

It had felt so real, almost like a memory even though that had never happened. I’d never set fire to Lucien’s office.

A throbbing ache began to pound in my head, and the world swayed around me. I pushed off from the window, practically tripping myself on my own feet as I tried to walk out of the library. It hurt to keep my eyes open, hurt to close them.

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