Pain Run Rampant (The Cruel and Brutal Kingdom Book 3) by Candace Wondrak

Author:Candace Wondrak [Wondrak, Candace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Invictis invades my dreams that night, and the second I see him, everything he did comes crashing back. Pulling Frederick off me while we were kissing. Threatening him. Being so jealous that he literally threw me over his shoulder and carried me off so I wouldn’t walk hand-in-hand back to camp with Frederick.

The asshole overstepped massively.

We’re in a giant lecture hall. I can’t remember exactly what class I had in the room. Maybe Intro to Psych 101 or something. Either way, it’s an auditorium-like room with countless rows of chairs.

Invictis walks along the front row of the room, studying it all without saying a word.

That’s fine. He doesn’t have to talk.

I walk down the aisle on the side of the room, step by step until I reach the front of the room, the lowest level, where a whiteboard sits. Totally old-fashioned, but that’s because this is an older building on campus, not redone with new technology everywhere you look.

I snap my fingers and get Invictis’s attention, and once those blue orbs look at me, I point to a seat in the front row and say, “Sit. It’s time for a lesson.”

He is slow in sitting down, and he chooses a seat in the middle. It’s almost funny seeing him in such a small seat; his body hardly fits. That’s what he gets for being so fucking giant.

I give him my back and walk up to the whiteboard. I find a dry-erase marker and uncap it. “Today, we’re going to learn something important. It’s something all people need to know, something stupid people often get wrong.” As I say that, I write something on the whiteboard in big, bold letters.

Once it’s done, I step aside and let him view it, and I point at it with my marker as I say, “How to tell if something is none of your business. Number one.” I draw a one on the board and write it as I say it: “Does it involve you?” Once I finish writing the question mark, I move away from the whiteboard like I’m a professor teaching an actual lesson.

“This is an easy one,” I tell him. “If something doesn’t involve you in any way, it’s none of your business. If you’re not around when something is happening and it affects you in no way whatsoever, it’s none of your business.”

I go back to the board and write a two. “Does it involve someone you hate?” Turning away from the board, I point the marker at Invictis. “Trick question. Even if it’s someone you hate, if it doesn’t involve you, it’s still none of your business.”

Invictis’s expression is one of boredom, although that boredom is laced with the slightest hints of irritation. Still, he doesn’t say anything. All he does is watch me and grind his jaw.

“Three,” I continue my lesson, hurriedly scribbling on the board, “does the outcome of the action affect you in any way? If it doesn’t, then it’s none of your business.” I underline the heading of the numbers, How to tell if something is none of your business, for emphasis.

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