Seven Wishes: The Caelum Academy Trilogy: Part ONE by Akeroyd Serena

Author:Akeroyd, Serena
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

7

Eve

“I wish I was ready to fight and that my goddamn leg wasn’t so useless at the moment,” Dre mumbled as he stared at the rings.

I wasn’t sure why Reed had managed to knock him out for so long, but I knew that he was a lot weaker for it.

Though I was tempted to comfort him, I knew he hadn’t aimed the words at me but at Nestor, who clapped him on the back.

“Doesn’t matter, bro. Just get better in time for Aboh.”

“Easier said than done. Christ, we’re going to have two weak links.” Dre huffed. “Fuck knows what will happen.”

I frowned at him and when he walked off in another snit—I swear, the guy had more moods than me—I asked Nestor, “You’re still going on this vacation to Aboh?”

His lips curved, but there was a light in his eyes that made me wonder what he was thinking about. “Yep.”

A short if not so sweet answer.

Studying him for a second, I was entranced by the length of his lashes and the way they brushed the upper curve of his cheekbones. If a man could be pretty, Nestor was close to that. I thought the only thing that saved him was the bump in his nose, which had obviously been broken several times.

Even as I wondered if that injury came from his parents’ fists or the boys here, I stated, “When do you leave?”

“Two weeks’ time.”

I bit my lip, trying not to be hurt that I hadn’t been invited along. Everything had changed since Dre had woken up, and I felt horrible even thinking that but it was the truth.

With his attention on the fight between Stefan and a guy called Tarick, who was built like a bull, I stepped away from the ring and headed out of the gym. I’d already worked out, so my suffering was done for the day. At least, I figured as much. I was sure someone else would tell me to slave away on the treadmill for another thirty minutes, but I preferred to walk around the grounds rather than be stuck inside watching grown men trying to make each other bleed.

The fighting was one of the reasons I subconsciously called them boys. Where it mattered, they weren’t grown up.

My mother had always said that at fourteen, I had more sense than my nineteen-year-old brother, and now that I was a little older with more sense than back then, I realized the same fit with the boys around me.

Slipping outside wasn’t difficult. We weren’t locked inside, after all, but I always felt like I was being duplicitous. Back at the compound, we were allowed only within allotted zones, and where the forest was concerned, we weren’t allowed anywhere near it even if, some days, I thought I’d sell my soul to be able to walk through those woods without anyone watching me—to be free, to be able to reveal my expression to the universe and not have to hide every last detail that made me me.

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