Malice - A Dark College Bratva Romance: The Ares Academy - Book Two by Arianna Fraser

Author:Arianna Fraser [Fraser, Arianna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

In which justice is served. In the worst possible way.

More Human Than Human - White Zombie

Konstantin…

I’m trying to get back into my morning runs and I start earlier than usual today because I’m pretty sure my first attempt is going to look more like a one-legged octogenarian with a bad back than a man at his physical peak. The sun is sending its first fingers of light over the flat landscape of the island, lighting the sky with layers of purple, orange, and red. Even with the early hours, the campus isn’t quiet. The guards are changing shifts, people working in the greenhouses and other students trying to get in a run in before class.

Son of a bitch.

Ronan, that sneaky fuck, is rounding the corner of Dean’s building with Mariya. They’re laughing as they run and he’s grinning at her like he can see down her sports bra. He probably can, and if he’s looking at my fiancée’s tits I’m going to throw him over the side of the cliff. The rest of their group comes into view before I can lose my shit about why Mariya is running alone with him. They pass by where I’m standing, not ten feet away, but she never looks in my direction.

A couple of days later, I’m looking up some reference books in the library. Tatiana used to search out the hard-to-find books for Lucca and me because she loves it here; the comfortable, shabby couches, the towering oak bookshelves. She’s not going to help me now, so I’m pawing through the stacks on my own. I hear giggling close by and roll my eyes. Why students are always fucking behind the bookcases here is something I’d never understand, when we have the most comfortable and opulent housing of any college on the planet.

“So, then he says, ‘How did the C4 get in the car trunk?’ and I say-”

Rounding the corner, I see Matt Carlson, one of the new upperclassmen, talking to Mariya. She’s got her study materials spread out on one of the tables and he’s edging out a chair to sit down.

“Carlson, is it?” I say coldly, “You were on Fournier’s team for the challenge.”

He turns to me with an easy smile, he’s got the typical bleached blond surfer boy look. I think he’s in the Assassins division, but he’s kept his head down, I haven’t seen him around much.

“Yeah, Konstantin Turgenev, you’re a legend around these parts.”

“Uh-huh,” I said dryly, “well, I need to have a word with my fiancee here, so if you’d move on, I’d appreciate it.”

Mariya is utterly still, radiating fury like a blast furnace.

Carlson turns back to her when he should move his ass out of the immediate vicinity. “Well, nice to meet you, Mariya.”

He’s mispronouncing her name, drawing out the ‘ah’ and her smile tightens a bit.

“Thanks for the suggestion about the knife work. That’s really going to help on the practical applications final.” He flashes her a grin that I’m sure he thinks he’s charming but when I remove half of his teeth with a single punch it won’t be as pretty.

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