Cursing Midnight (The Midnight Trilogy Book 2) by Rowen Michelle

Author:Rowen, Michelle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michelle Rowen
Published: 2023-04-11T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

FIFTEEN

Cassandra had decided to stay with me. In my dorm room. In Carly’s currently vacant bed. And I seemed to have been given no choice in the matter.

It made me mad. This wasn’t a friend I wanted to help out. This was an uninvited problem that had barged into my life. If she was just a classmate I would do my best to avoid her, but she wasn’t.

She might look every bit as harmless as I did, but she was far from it.

I eyed her warily as we walked away from St. Andrew’s and back toward downtown, the outline of the tall office buildings and St. Edward’s Trinity Hospital a glowing beacon in the distance. I drew my coat closer to try to block out the constant chill that made me shiver violently. This was the abandoned part of town, and I would normally think twice about walking around here alone at night—or even with a friend. But Cassandra wasn’t defenseless. She might be blonde and pretty, but she was every bit a warrior as the other guys. Maybe more so.

To tell the truth, she kind of freaked me out.

“You know,” she said after we’d walked in silence for nearly fifteen minutes. “I am getting the distinct impression that you don’t like me very much.”

Unfortunately, I wore my emotions on my face thicker than any makeup.

“You don’t have to be afraid of me,” she added.

I swallowed hard. “I’m not afraid.”

Freaked out wasn’t afraid. It was freaked out.

“If Bishop says you can resist your hungers, then I’m perfectly fine accepting his assessment. To me, you’re the same as any other human. Just a little more interesting.”

“I’m not afraid,” I said again, firmer.

She smiled at that. “If you say so.”

I needed to gain some sort of control here—even if I was only fooling myself. This was going to be a long walk.

“Zach tells me you’re a host,” I said. I assumed it wasn’t a secret. He hadn’t said it was.

She raised an eyebrow. “And do you know what that means?”

Yeah, that I should watch you carefully for your hidden agenda. “You weren’t human first. You were created as an angel.”

“That’s right.”

“That’s hard for me to wrap my head around. No parents. No siblings...not that I have siblings. But, I mean, most people do.” Like Bishop and Kraven, who came immediately and vividly to mind.

She crossed her arms, keeping her gaze on the sidewalk stretching before us. “It’s not as sterile an existence as you might think. I have a sibling—or someone I consider my sibling. She was created at the same time as me. We’re like sisters.”

“Oh.” Yes, that was my fabulously snappy comeback.

There were some people you felt totally comfortable around. Like Carly, for instance. We knew each other so well we could basically finish each other’s sentences. Also, we didn’t have to be constantly talking. It was a comfortable silence.

I didn’t have that with Cassandra. With her it was uncomfortable silence. One that pressed in on all sides like those

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