Royals of Villain Academy 6: Foul Conjuring by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2019-11-20T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Malcolm

I could tell the second I saw Rory coming out of the Ashgrave Hall stairwell that she was on a mission. She had that look, her jaw set and her eyes alight with determination, that sparked a flicker of desire in me even as I pitied whoever she was about to take that fire out on.

Then it occurred to me who it was most likely she was planning on confronting, given recent events. My stomach flipped over. Even the heir of Bloodstone had her limits.

She nodded to me with a tense smile as she moved to pass me by the front door, and I caught her arm.

“Where are you going all fired up, Glinda?”

She wrinkled her nose at the teasing nickname, but it did suit her, even if I’d developed an appreciation for her righteousness. A couple other seniors brushed past us on their way to the library, and she pitched her voice low. “Declan can’t meet with the rest of the barons until tomorrow. I figured I’d go talk to my mother now.”

Of course she’d figured that. “To try to change her mind about the new Nary policy?”

“What else?” She crossed her arms over her chest. “Or to fill her in and get her to lay into the others, if she wasn’t part of the decision in the first place.”

I could tell from her expression that she didn’t believe my father, Killbrook, and Stormhurst would have taken a step like that without including the newly restored Baron Bloodstone. In fact, the timing suggested they’d gone ahead with it because she’d returned. When the four of us had discussed Rory’s discovery last night, I’d realized and pointed out to the others that this change at the university was probably the plan Agnes had overheard my parents talking about—a plan that had required a Bloodstone’s participation. They hadn’t meant Rory but rather her mother.

The only real question was how the other barons were going to justify keeping Declan out of the loop. If they’d wanted to do this before and didn’t have any qualms ignoring the near-barons in their midst, I didn’t know why they’d have waited.

Rory wouldn’t want to believe her mother had immediately jumped on board to hurt the students the Bloodstone scion had so often championed, though. That was her biggest problem. She understood in theory what the barons could be like—she’d seen how brutal our parents could be. But she’d never experienced it herself.

I didn’t want to think her mother would come down on her the way my father did on me… but I wasn’t so naïve to think it was unlikely.

“Come here,” I said, tugging her with me away from the door. When she balked, I gave her my most cajoling look. “Please. Just to talk for a minute.”

“Fine.” She followed me past the library windows around the curve in the hall. No one generally ventured as far as the stairs to the basement except us scions and the occasional maintenance staffer. I stopped there,

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