Wicked Heartbreaker: A Dark College Bully Romance (Westforde College Book 1) by Serena Lyons

Author:Serena Lyons [Lyons, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2020-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

16: Faith

I force myself to brave hall for breakfast on Monday morning. I can’t run scared. Okay, things aren’t exactly going to plan, but I can’t just give up at the first hurdle. I owe it to Millie to give it my all.

This pathetic attempt is nowhere near my all.

Still, I skip the queue for hot food and fill a bowl with cereal instead. Coco Pops, that’s got to make me feel better. Gran would never let me eat sugary cereal, so it reminds me of sleepovers when I was at junior school and had friends. I grew apart from all the local girls at upper school. They called me stuck up for hanging out with Millie during the holidays and a geek for caring about school, while I couldn’t understand their obsessions with make-up and celebrity gossip. They wouldn’t recognise me, but would approve of my new look.

I sit near the door, my back against the wall so the whole room is laid out in front of me. I hate people whispering behind me, and most people seem too timid to point and stare when I’m looking dead at them.

A few girls turn to stare at me, their glossy hair catching the light streaming in through the high windows. This is fine, I can cope. I spoon the already softening cereal into my mouth. My whole body relaxes as the sweet, chocolaty milk hits my taste buds.

Not so bad, I can get through this. I’ve not even been here for two weeks, maybe I can establish a new normal.

The entire hall goes silent. Heads swivel towards the entrance from the stairs, I twist and follow their eyes. Callum is coming directly towards me, a black look on his face.

“Axel said you were here.” He stops on the other side of the long trestle table, glaring down at me.

He’s keeping tabs on me? I swing around, and sure enough at the far end of the hall there’s his friend, staring straight at us both, a steely expression darkening his handsome features.

I quickly swallow the cereal in my mouth, knowing I won’t be able to eat the rest of the bowl. Something tells me I won’t have any appetite after Callum’s said whatever he needs to say.

“Not all of us have private kitchens. Or money to waste in restaurants. You’ll find me here most mealtimes.” I need to wrestle back some control.

“Don’t flatter yourself that I’ll need to find you again. I’m only here because I have to be.” He drops a piece of paper on the solid oak between us.

“May I?” I don’t reach for the note, just push my half-eaten breakfast away. “I know you have privacy issues.”

His cheek twitches. “You…” He pauses taking a deep breath. “Just read it already.”

I swallow my smile and turn the paper over. It’s an email from Professor Headley to Callum about the essay competition. That’s why he’s talking to me. And looking like he’d rather be doing anything else.

“So, you’re here about my essay?”

“Unfortunately.

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