House of Strife (Poisoned Houses Book 4) by Lyn Forester

Author:Lyn Forester [Forester, Lyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stacks Create
Published: 2019-09-03T05:00:00+00:00

Tuesday after class, we hit the end of the video feed gained from House Damba. We now know which directions Ashley and Dominick took when they left, and who went in and out of those halls before and after, but the cameras don’t cover past the main ballroom.

Nikola settles down to hack into the camera that covers Dominick’s hall first. The hall Ashley went down only has coverage through Mr. Blue’s surveillance and only Felix thinks it’s a good idea to try to crack that system open.

In the meantime, Connor attempts to look up poisons and their symptoms on Nikola’s personal tablet, while Felix, Myrrine, and I investigate the new Mr. Blue’s personal history under the guise of research for our term papers.

Connor and I take turns sharing the palm-port, our only lifeline to Declan. Felix still refuses to speak to him, though he asks how he’s doing at breakfast every morning, as if he can’t help himself and struggles to limit his inquiries. His anxious energy continues to grow, but he hasn’t returned to my room to sleep, and I haven’t invited him.

I think we’re both hesitant after what happened beneath the tree. If we lay in the same bed together, the sparks that jump between us will ignite, and neither of us are ready for that. But I worry about how he’s doing alone at night. Is he crashing in Connor’s room? Or Nikola’s? Or is he suffering alone with the nightmares that still plague his sleep?

That night, I take the palm-port from Connor and ditch everyone to hide out in the grassy field behind the Entertainment Hall.

It's not technically hiding, they know where I am, but they also know I need some alone time. Even Myrrine's bubbly personality wanes in the face of our inability to find a lead.

Logically, it's only been a few days, but as children of the elite, we're all used to things coming easy to us, with the idea of failure not even on the radar. But now, when failure can't be allowed, we've come up against a brick wall.

This experience is eye-opening on many levels. I don’t want to be the kind of councilor who expects everything to be handed to me. Who relies on other people to solve issues without any personal effort. Who can’t help someone I love when they need it because I’ve never been taught to do things for myself.

I settle in the grass, my back against the Entertainment Hall and knees drawn up. The grassy field spreads out before me, the stars overhead peeking in and out between clouds.

Propping the palm-port on my knees, I press the button for Declan, needing to see his face, to know our inability hasn’t led to his death.

As the device searches for him, his still image appears on the screen, and I trace the strong line of his jaw, the thick eyebrows pinched together in concentration. His dark-brown hair sticks up in places, as if he ran his hands through it. He looks younger, though still familiar.

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