King of Swords: A Dark College Bully Romance (Stormcloud Academy Book 1) by Nicole Casey

Author:Nicole Casey [Casey, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Biba

I hurt. There was no simpler way to describe it. I didn’t even open my eyes but lay there, trying to figure out where the pain was coming from.

Had I slept wrong? Was I sick? I felt the acid coming up my throat and rolled off the edge of the bed to vomit. Once. Twice. A third time.

Only there was no bed to puke off. I was on the decrepit carpet where I’d passed out. I’d coated it with my watery vomit. I would have felt bad for sullying the old school, except as I opened my eyes, I saw this hallway was well-and-truly destroyed without my help.

Both the carpet and the white walls were speckled with brownish dried blood. Theo’s blood, from the savage beating he’d endured.

“Disgusting!” a snotty German voice rang out above me.

I’d been too busy to notice there was someone else in the hall. The huge, spiteful girl from my lunch table. Jabba, as I’d come to think of her, was sitting across from me, as far away from me as she could get.

“What do you want?” I mumbled, “What happened last night? To Theo?”

Jabba hefted her weight and stood. “Frau Wilhelm!” she shouted. “She’s awake. Can I go now?”

“Oh, geez.” I clapped my hands over my ears and rolled over. I heard the clack of Frau Wilhelm’s wooden heels against the paper-thin carpet.

“Vell? Vat do you haf to say for yourself? Eh?”

“Ma’am, I need to know about my friend, Theo.”

“I think dat I should be asking zat question of you, eh.”

“What do you mean?”

“Miss Quinn, we are not stupid, vat-ever you might assume. A vell-known Stormcloud student vas found on the verge of death this morning. The only person near him vas you. You have his blood on your hands, quite literally.”

“He’s alive, though?” I asked hopefully, ignoring the ominous implication she was making.

“Three broken ribs, a jaw abrasion, a collapsed vertebra, a concussion, and quite a bit of internal bleeding. Herr Brant should be dead, but by some miracle, he lives.”

I sighed in blessed relief. Whatever awful thing she was about to append to this news, I didn’t care. Theo may hate me. He may have some cause to hate me, but it didn’t matter. He had survived.

“He is in the infirmary, quite deeply sedated. As for you, Miss Quinn, you will remain on campus until such time as I am confident you are innocent of involvement in dis attack.”

I stood creakily, basically sliding myself up against the wall. My bracing headache threatened to knock me unconscious. But I held myself together.

“Can I go see him?” I asked.

“You would be better to take care of yourself. Forget about him. Get up. Get busy. Get some fresh air. Anything can be made better mit fresh air.”

She stormed away, and I promptly vomited on my bare feet. Where were my shoes?

I stumbled back to my room to the unending delight of every cruel fellow student I passed. It was the most shameful walk imaginable. I had to pull it together and figure out what had happened.

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