Noble Fae Academy: Year One by Addison Creek

Author:Addison Creek [Creek, Addison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-11T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

I was freezing cold and my teeth were chattering. I stared at Colly as he took off his jacket and wrapped it around my shoulders, but he wasn’t meeting my gaze. He just wanted to make sure I was all right.

“What were you doing up here?” I asked. My throat was raw. My whole body was ice.

Colly glanced at me, then turned away again without responding.

“You know this conversation would go a lot better if it weren’t so one-sided. And by definition I think a conversation probably requires two fae. You could always try saying something,” I suggested.

He looked up at me again, and this time he went entirely still, so still that I went still along with him. I wasn’t even breathing as his eyes locked on mine, that crazy color shining in the darkness.

“Where did you get eyes like that? How did you know I was here?” I wondered.

He ignored the first question but spoke at last to answer the second. “I don’t sleep well. Nighttime is the only time I get to myself, so I walk the halls. I’m always careful to avoid anything that would let the guards catch me, of course. Tonight I was surprised to realize that I still wasn’t alone.”

“Ruining your solitude,” I said. So, I told myself, he too did what was expressly forbidden on campus.

He nodded, then asked, “Can you stand?”

“Course I can,” I nearly spat out.

Colly suggesting I couldn’t even walk, the nerve! It could have been my imagination, but as I wobbled to my feet I thought he might have smiled.

I have never walked down a flight of stairs so slowly in my life. My whole body ached, but all the way I could feel Colly behind me, probably – I told myself – judging my slowness. If he was, he at least kept quiet about it.

Good thing, I thought. Because I was tempted to turn around and punch him for what I imagined he was thinking.

When we made it to the bottom he stayed with me. I didn’t even know where the men’s dorm was, so I had no idea where he might have gone otherwise.

“Are you going to walk me all the way back to my dorm?” I demanded.

He didn’t respond. He seemed to have used up his word quota for the day. Maybe the month.

I wanted to say something irritable to him about it, but I didn’t bother. Being sarcastic wasn’t as much fun when you didn’t even get a response.

Slowly I made my way back to the dormitory, feeling as though I’d been pummeled by rocks. Maybe because I had.

Someone had to get that murderer. This couldn’t be allowed to stand.

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