Wicked Betrayal (Darkwater Reformatory Book 1) by Marty Mayberry

Author:Marty Mayberry [Mayberry, Marty]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

“Go away,” I growled, looking up at him.

“I just…” His gaze drifted across my face.

“What?”

Jacey grinned and winked at me.

No. There was nothing between us.

“Just wanted to make sure you were still alive,” he growled. Cranky, but there was nothing new there.

“Aww,” Jacey sighed as if we were talking about making out.

“I am alive, thanks,” I said stiffly.

“Well, good. Glad to hear it.” After giving me a stiff nod, he took his tray to an empty table halfway across the room, where he sat alone.

“You should’ve asked him to sit with us,” Jacey whispered, leaning across the table.

“I don’t want him to sit with us. I just told you he hates me.”

She snorted. “Didn’t look like hate to me.”

“He growled.”

“Guys. Who can figure them out, right?”

“You’re wrong,” I ground out, hoping she’d let this go.

“He came over here to ask how you were doing.”

“He came over to make sure I’m alive so he can kill me.”

“He could’ve done that from across the room.” Her head tilted. “Why does he want to kill you?”

“I can’t say.”

“Okay,” she said slowly. Her attention fell on my mostly-full plate. “You done?”

I pushed my tray away. “Yes.”

Standing, she lifted hers. “Then let’s ditch these and take a tour of the unrestricted areas.”

We left the cafeteria and went left across the great room, then walked down a hall with a steel door at the end.

“This part of Darkwater is three stories tall. We’re allowed in our own residential area—no one else’s—the great room and cafeteria, the yards, sometimes the courtyard, and a few areas on the second floor. We’re not allowed to go anywhere else, hence my showing you around.”

“Why just sometimes in the courtyard?”

“Titan hunts there, mostly at night, but sometimes Bixby gives him free rein during the day.”

“I assume we become the hunted.”

Her face fell. “Yeah.” Shaking her head, she continued down the hall. “They built this place in the usual fae structure of a square with the large garden-strewn courtyard in the middle. There are also outside exercise areas where we can hang out during free time, the yards. Warden Bixby thinks fresh air and sunshine will perk us up and keep us tame. I’ve yet to see it happen.”

“We built our academies in a circle with inner gardens, too,” I said. Like the fae. But then, we used to be the fae, too.

“That’s how the capital is set up. The walled city, it’s called.” She waved toward the main staircase. “Upstairs, you’ll find the wings housing the guy pods. We can’t go in that direction, but there are classrooms up there, too.”

We went through a door and approached a set of stairs opposite an exit outside, then climbed to the second floor, where we paused on the broad landing with a few sturdy chairs and random bookcases with dusty volumes. Not exactly a cozy nook where someone could sit and read, but this could be all I’d get.

“Darkwater is made up of three campuses,” she said, clutching the wooden railing. “The

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