Treachery Prequel (Antihero Inferno Book 1) by Lily White

Author:Lily White [White, Lily]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-03-03T00:00:00+00:00

Luca

I was on my way to the library for the fifth night in a row. After being assigned the tort project, and then finding out my senior partner wanted nothing to do with it unless I promised him a favor in return, I spent two nights throwing a pity party for one in my dorm room, alternating like ocean waves back and forth between rage at how Tanner had treated me and fear that I would fail my class because there was no way in hell I’d be able to complete the assignment without him.

For one tiny second, I’d actually considered crawling back to him and making the deal he obviously wanted just so I could save my GPA and not throw away years of hard work, but that moment of weakness had been lost as soon as Everly had come back following a night out with Jase.

She had tears in her eyes and her hair was a mess, the scent of alcohol wafting from her breath when she admitted she’d caught Jase with another girl in his bed for the third time.

Comforting her had only made me hate the Inferno boys again. So, on the third day, I’d emerged from my dorm room with a plan in place to avoid every single one of them like that were the Black Plague while pulling up my big girl panties to take the project on myself.

In a way, it was a good thing. My anger focused me and the enormity of the project kept me busy enough that hiding in the library felt more like a necessity than being a coward.

Over the course of the past five days, I never took the same route, I showed up either early or late to class (which was a complete affront to my manners regarding punctuality) and I’d managed to avoid Gabriel finding me as a result.

It felt good to sidestep the Inferno, my head held high and my shoulders rolled back as I made it my mission in life to be the one student they couldn’t steamroll.

It felt like the universe was finally on my side for once, like nothing could touch me as I walked quickly beneath the boughs of the campus trees. But then my phone rang, my good luck, and good feelings, coming to an end almost immediately.

“Hey dad,” I answered after recognizing his number flashing across my screen.

It wasn’t unusual for my father to call me around this time of day. Both my parents were good about staying in touch, always checking on me to make sure there wasn’t something I needed.

His voice when he first spoke was ice coating my spine. Something was off, and it slowed my steps as I approached the library, my body bathed in the deep shadow of the tall building.

“Hey, baby girl. Are you busy? We need to talk.”

We need to talk never bodes well for the beginning of a conversation. Something negative always follows. I steeled my spine for what he had to say, but it wasn’t enough.

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