Academy of the Forsaken (Cursed Studies Book 2) by Eva Chase

Author:Eva Chase [Chase, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781989096604
Publisher: Ink Spark Press
Published: 2020-04-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Trix

From the moment I’d left the library yesterday afternoon, the discovery of the secret yearbook had gripped my chest with a demand to be shared. But Elias and Jenson had been oddly AWOL for the rest of the day, and I wasn’t inclined to turn to Ryo after our argument. I could have mentioned it to Cade, but we wouldn’t exactly have had much time to discuss my findings—and he’d obviously needed something different from me anyway.

I hadn’t squashed down my doubts well enough, and I’d made him feel like I wasn’t really committed to him, to us. The memory made my stomach knot.

My restless urge to hash out my discovery with someone I could trust followed me as I showered and got dressed in the morning. My first instinct was to get Elias’s input, since he had the most experience with the staff and a more analytical approach, but I hadn’t run into him yet when I crossed paths with Jenson, who was coming up from basement laundry duty.

He stopped at the top of the stairs and gave me a smile that looked a little tense around the edges. We hadn’t really talked since his comment about me being the only person around here he liked. He hadn’t seemed all that happy about admitting it. Did he figure it would make me think less of him?

I didn’t, and he was here. That made up my mind for me.

“Hey,” I said. “Are you done with the laundry? There’s something big I need to talk to you about.”

His face brightened slightly, his stance slipping into a more casual pose. “Isn’t it nice that I have a large opening in my schedule, then? Where should we chat?”

He knew as well as I did the risks of getting into anything we’d want to keep under wraps in this building. I was about to suggest the carriage house, since that’d worked well before, when another familiar figure emerged from the stairwell behind him.

“What’s going on?” Ryo asked, hesitant but concerned as he glanced between me and Jenson and back again. “You sound like you found out something important.”

His expression twitched when I met his eyes, but he held my gaze without faltering, as if to say he was here regardless of what had happened yesterday. I crossed my arms instinctively, but whatever else was true, whatever his motivations, I did know he wanted to help. And getting two outside opinions would be more useful than one. It didn’t have to be anything more than a professional sort of conversation.

Why should I admit how much his confession had affected me anyway? I’d rather he thought I didn’t care all that much.

“I’ll explain in a minute,” I said. “Let’s take a walk.”

As soon as I looked at the carriage house when we came around the school building, I knew it was out. That place held a few too many awkward memories, including a very clear one of a recent intimate encounter with Ryo. That was

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