The Student (Tanglewood University Book 2) by Skye Warren

Author:Skye Warren [Warren, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skye Warren
Published: 2024-08-24T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Learn Your Lesson

I’m standing on a random corner on campus, one that’s on the very edge. Campus is on one side of me. The other contains a strip mall with a Chinese restaurant and a frozen yogurt shop. They both do a brisk trade in student orders.

My ass throbs from the spanking. I should be outraged that Stratford thinks he can exert such control over me. The secret truth is that I’ve been aching with wetness ever since. He unlocked something inside me.

Something that wants to be hit over and over again.

Someone who wants to be protected at any cost, even violence.

It’s not a healthy part of me, but then, I already knew I wasn’t healthy. The deep research I’ve done into complex PTSD brought that into stark reality.

The evening air blows warm, but I still feel cold.

I had to jump through many hoops to get this far. Their invitations can’t have anything as straightforward as a time and place. No, I had to scan a code that told me where to find a slip of paper under the third stepping stone of the art department’s sculpture garden. The current task was to take a selfie at this exact intersection and send it to an unlisted number.

A sleek black limousine pulls up to the curb.

I hesitate, my heart pounding in my chest. The window rolls down, revealing the darkened interior. No one steps out to greet me. With a deep breath, I open the door and peer inside. The back of the limo is empty, save for a dark-tinted screen separating me from the driver.

A shiver runs down my spine, but I climb inside and close the door behind me. I sink into the plush leather seats despite the knot of anxiety in my stomach. Does every member of the Society get their own little scavenger hunt? Their own private limo?

It seems excessive, but then I suppose they love to be extra.

I have no idea where we’re going. Or what’s going to happen when we get there. The thought of being buried alive, or worse, digging up a potential corpse, sends a shudder through me. Though the Society would never be so gauche as to repeat themselves. Whatever I’m about to face will be new but no less perilous.

The limo turns a corner, and I catch a glimpse of the campus fading into the distance. My heart beats faster, the reality of my situation sinking in.

I’m at their mercy now.

There’s no turning back.

The drive seems to last forever.

And it’s over too soon, at the same time.

We pull up at some kind of mansion, like a massive antebellum plantation. It’s surrounded by massive trees, their arms as thick as the most trunks. Someone steps out from the mansion and opens the door.

I step out, my heels wobbly on the cobblestone driveway. “Hi.”

The man has the posture and the distant expression of a butler. “Ms. Hill,” he greets me with a nod, his voice as crisp as the autumn air. “Follow me.

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