Grimmstead Academy: Submission by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven – Felice

I didn’t know why we had to go on with the sessions when everything was thrown off. Without Payne and Koda—or Bram—there were two fewer men to tutor. Two fewer heads at the dinner table.

I missed them. I really did. Payne and Koda.

Bram…was frightening. My heart skipped a beat anytime I thought about him, when I thought about how close he’d come to killing me, to ending my life for good. He would’ve killed everyone in Grimmstead if given the chance; there was no rehabilitating someone like that.

Did that stop me from wanting to? No. Unfortunately, the answer to that was no. A part of me wanted to go to the basement, where I knew he was, and try to help him. Try to make him see what a monster he was. Maybe I could make him better.

Or maybe it’d be a wasted effort and he’d try to kill me again.

I knew one thing for sure: something had to give. I wanted Koda back and Bram gone, especially if I couldn’t do anything to help him.

Dagen was awfully quiet during his session with me, and it was clear to me he was lost in his own head. He hardly spoke, even when I asked him questions. He just sat there, two feet away from me, incredibly pensive.

Eventually I couldn’t take it anymore. I had to reach a hand over to him, setting it on his knee. The abrupt action caused him to tense up, his back snapping straight and his eyes to focus on me. “What’s wrong?” I asked. “Is it the…the noise?” Maybe with me touching him, the noise would stop and he’d be able to put all of his attention to the matter at hand.

“Actually,” he finally spoke, dark eyes heavy on me, “it wasn’t. I was…I was thinking.”

The noise wasn’t why he seemed so distant? Color me shocked. “Thinking about what?” I started to take my hand off his knee, but he was quick to set one of his hands atop mine, holding it there.

“No,” he muttered, his fingers curling around mine. “I like it when you touch me.” A blush crept up his cheeks, and I found myself starting to smile at him.

For someone who was ridiculously paranoid, he could be awfully cute at times.

“I just…” Dagen stopped, running a hand through his black hair. “Before this, I was upstairs with Payne. I might have an idea, but I want to discuss it with you and Lucien first. Ian is already aware, as he caught me up there.”

An idea to bring Payne back? I was all for it. More than all for it, actually. Any idea was better than no idea; the research we’d been doing in the library had, so far, yielded no results. I would be down to try anything to revive him. I probably visited his body too much, and every time I did I grew sad because I just couldn’t think of anything to do.

“What’s your idea?” I questioned, needing to know right this very second.

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