Locked Hearts: Society of the Locked Souls Book One by Amber Nicole & Jenn Bullard

Author:Amber Nicole & Jenn Bullard [Nicole, Amber & Bullard, Jenn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 17

I leave Levi’s office and walk around for a few minutes. Ash has become more distant and hostile this past week, and I’m worried. He’s been my best friend for years, since we met in Bastian’s father’s church. I was praying to God to give me my mother back, and he was escaping the cruel boys from the orphanage. We were inseparable from that moment on.

I had known Bast from school, and Ash just fit into our group like it was always meant to be. So why does it feel like he’s pulling away and is going to leave us?

I pass Bridget and Milo arguing in the courtyard, but don’t stay long enough to find out why. She’s become even more unbearable and cruel to Chastity. I can see it’s blatant jealousy, but the way her and her friends are acting should be a sin all by itself. Not that they’d care; we all know they’re only here to find good, religious men to marry and take home to their families.

Lisa once confessed that was the reason her parents sent her here after she got too drunk. It’s all about appearances.

I thought everyone was here for redemption, like we were, or at least, like we claimed to the judge. I’m too pretty for juvie. I still think they disciplined us way too harshly. All we did was throw a tiny party at Bast’s father’s church. I mean, how was I to know that there were going to be drugs there, or that someone would OD? I didn’t touch them.

I still think maybe we were set up, and were meant to be sent here to Holy Cross. It would make sense and explains how Ash, Bast, and I just happened to be chosen for the Locked Souls. Bast tells me I’m crazy, every time I bring up my conspiracy theories. Maybe I am, but I have to say, coming here was one of the best things to happen to Ash.

He was about to be kicked out of the only home he’d ever known, due to aging out, and now he’s able to stay with us, with three gourmet square meals a day.

The orphanage often struggled to keep everyone fed, as they were overwhelmed by the amount of children that the state would send them.

Ash has always been high energy, quick to anger, and the first to throw a punch. It’s the reason Levi channeled all of our energy into sports, and the underground fighting ring.

Before that, Bast and I would often pile onto a fight, following Ash into whatever mess he started, just to help him. We were fucking wild, but we never thought it would be an issue. We figured we were young, and would always get away with it.

We were definitely wrong.

That is part of why Levi is so hard on us, and any whisper of a problem has him coming to squash it. I don’t even mind it, because we need that direction.

It’s why I went to Levi to tell him I was worried about Ash.

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