Take My Crown: A High School Bully Romance (Boys of King Academy Series Book 1) by Louise Rose & G. Bailey

Author:Louise Rose & G. Bailey [Rose, Louise]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Midnight Publishing Limited
Published: 2020-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Ivy Archaic

Somehow, I survived another week at the Academy and before I know it, it’s Saturday and I am happy I didn’t have to wear the stupid uniform this weekend.

I’m not so happy about what day it is.

My eighteenth birthday.

As I wake up, I lay in bed, staring up at the ceiling for a long time like the plain white paint can tell me the answers I’ve been searching for. If someone had told me I would spend my eighteenth birthday living in a mansion, the prisoner of my father who is a gangster of some kind, I would have wondered what they’d been smoking. But here I am, in a bed that probably cost more than Katy earned in a year. I have so many questions that all lie in the mind of my mother.

Oh, how I wish she was here.

There is a knock at the door that snaps me out of my thoughts.

“Come in!”

The door opens and Isabella walks in, followed by a servant pushing a food trolley. I pull myself up to a seated position, as the servant picks up a tray from the trolley and places it across my lap. There is a vase with brightly coloured gerberas to one side and a large cloche in the middle of the tray.

The servant picks up the cloche to reveal a large plate beautifully laid out with a variety of exotic fruits cut into delicate little flowers as well as a selection of Danish pastries. In addition, there are three glasses, each with a different type of juice – orange, cranberry, and apple.

“Tea or coffee, miss?” the servant asks, holding up a pot in each hand.

“Er… coffee, I guess.”

The servant pours out a cup of coffee, placing it on the tray along with a little jug of cream and a dish with sugar lumps. Then they take the trolley and push it out of the room, leaving me alone with Isabella who I still don’t trust.

“Do you want some of this?” I offer, trying to build a bridge between us. If I am going to see her every day until my dear dad dies and I can escape here, I might as well get to know her. “There’s no way I’ll be able to eat it all by myself.”

“No, thank you,” Isabella replies. “It would not be appropriate for me to share your food.”

Better than letting it all go to waste, I mutter under my breath, but I knew not to push the aide by now. She is surprisingly strong willed, for all her calm demeanour.

“Now your father has asked me to tell you to take your time with breakfast,” she tells me. “He says everyone should enjoy a lie-in on their birthday.”

“How generous.”

Isabella ignores my sarcasm. “But when you’re ready, he asks that you join him in his study. He’s got a surprise for you that I think you’ll love.”

“What is it?”

“Now if I told you, it wouldn’t be a surprise, would it?”

Isabella smiles enigmatically and leaves me to eat my breakfast alone.

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