Dark Duplicity (The Savage Dark Book 2) by Amelia Winters

Author:Amelia Winters [Winters, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-24T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

“Harlow, wait up!” I called out to my friend, and she turned to let me catch up.

“What is it?” she asked, raising a single eyebrow while she looked me up and down. “You’re out of breath. Did you race across campus just to show me how sweaty running makes you?”

She laughed, and I joined her. I caught my breath and shook my head. “No, not even close. I ran all this way because I wanted you to know that I found a way to get you Upper status!”

“I don’t want Upper status,” she said, and her brows knit together. “What makes you think I want to be one of the oppressive class?”

I sighed, a little annoyed that she wasn’t as excited about this new development as I was. I had been spending every spare moment since Luke’s attack trying to find a way to keep him safe. In finding ways for me to help him, I found a way to help Harlow as well. But she wasn’t interested, and that was irritating as hell.

“I’m just trying my best to help you out here,” I replied with an edge to my voice. “I don’t know why you’re upset about it.”

“I’m not upset,” she said, and then she ran her hand through her hair, and her face relaxed. “Listen, I’m not mad at you. I’m upset about the day. It was an exhausting exam for Economics class.”

“They let you take Econ?” I asked. “I didn’t think women were allowed in those ones.”

“Oh, did you think I was allowed to take a man’s course,” she said and held her hand to her chest as if she was scandalized. Then she laughed and added, “I meant home economics, of course. The sort of thing they teach us when we need to learn about managing a household, you know, planning meals and operating the budget. That sort of shit. Can you believe it?”

“I can believe it because this place is so fucking backward,” I spat. “It doesn’t have to be like this, you know. It isn’t like this in other places.”

“What places? There’s only this world. Do you mean other countries? But most of them are barely habitable,” she replied, distress coloring her voice. “You remember the great war. It wiped out half the planet. So where are we supposed to go?”

She sounded genuinely stressed about it all, and I didn’t blame her.

“What was wrong with the test?” I asked, hoping to direct her frustration towards the school instead of the world at large. It felt like a much more manageable problem.

“It was weighted towards brainless fools,” she said. “I want to use my head and fill it with knowledge. I crave learning something useful. I want to take a course that will help explain some of the physics and advanced chemistry books I’ve stolen from the men’s library.”

I was still processing the idea that half the planet had been wiped out in a war I had no memory of. Yet another hole in this Swiss cheese brain of mine.

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