A Gorgeous Villain by A. Kent Saffron

Author:A. Kent, Saffron
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Purple Prose Press, LLC
Published: 2021-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

He’s the first thing I see as soon as I enter Ballad of the Bards.

I’m not shocked to see him though.

It’s Friday and he knows where I go on Fridays.

Even though I haven’t been here in three weeks, ever since that night. And I would’ve skipped tonight as well but I’ve already worried my friends a lot and I couldn’t skip without telling them something, everything, I don’t know.

But I can’t.

I can’t tell them anything. Not yet.

Not until I figure things out myself. So when they asked, I said yes and I did it with a huge smile on my face to make it look convincing.

But anyway, he knows where to go to find me.

The shock comes from the fact that he wants to find me in the first place. That he wanted to find me last night as well when I hid from him.

When I figured out that…

That I am. I know I am.

My body has been trying to tell me this for days now and I’ve ignored it. I can’t ignore it now.

So I know.

I’ve known it for about twenty-four hours now.

I’ve known it ever since last night when I threw up in the woods. I knew it when I got back to my room and first hugged my pillow to my body because I was so scared — I still am — and then cried in it.

I knew all through breakfast this morning, through trigonometry, geography, history, biology. I knew it when I went to see my guidance counselor and she asked me how my week had been and I told her it was fine. Everything was the same.

Even though it was a lie.

Because everything is not fine. Everything is not the same.

I don’t think it will ever be the same after what I’ve known for the last twenty-four hours.

And now he’s here.

He’s standing at the same spot that he was back when I first saw him after two years. But unlike the last time, he doesn’t have people around him.

He’s alone and it looks like he’s been waiting for me. It looks like he’s been watching the door.

My heart tries to race at the thought.

At him watching the door, waiting for me to show up. But I harden it.

I make it stop.

Because he shouldn’t be waiting for me. He shouldn’t be watching the door for me.

And I shouldn’t want him to.

I do everything in my power to stop my heart from wrecking my ribs, from leaping out of my chest at the sight of him. And I think I’m successful. I think.

But I forgot one thing. Or rather, didn’t take that thing into account.

I didn’t take into account the fact that instead of it all ending that night, something began.

Something took root and I feel it in my body now, and even though I’ve managed to calm down my heart, I can’t calm it down.

The flutters in my abdomen.

A quickening, something pulsing to life, and it’s only getting worse the more I stare into his wolf eyes.

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