Savage Delight (Lovely Vicious) by Sara Wolf

Author:Sara Wolf
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: young adult, lovely vicious, YA, NA, romance, new adult, sara wolf, savage delight
Published: 2014-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

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3 Years

26 Weeks

6 Days

Principal Evans is a nice guy. By Disney villain standards. By every other standard, he’s a more or less a horrible jerk. And I know this, but I’ve spent so much time with him now I barely see it anymore. It just is, like the stupid watercolor of the school’s main building on his wall, or the fluorescent light above his desk that flickers sometimes because, hello, public school funding. Summer is hot and I am hot and the sky is blue and Evans is just a straight-up jerk with a continual mid-life crisis he likes to take out on me.

I put my feet up on his desk anyway.

“What’s up, man?” I ask. I know exactly what’s up. But I’m gonna make him beg for it. Evans runs his hand over his balding head.

“I was concerned about my favorite student.”

“Oh, you’ve gotten so much better at lying!” I clap my hands. “You could just say you wanna know what was in Stanford’s envelope. You know, be a little more honest with your feelings. I’m sure it’d save you from buying that inevitable red convertible or a couple years of therapy in the long run.”

Evans frowns. “I have been trying to make up for my mistakes. How much longer are you going to treat me like the bad guy?”

“As long as you’re alive,” I say cheerily. “You just want me to tell you I got in early, so you can brag to your other bald principal friends.”

“You did? Congratulations.”

“Ah ah,” I wag my finger. “Don’t assume, and don’t try to get me to say it. I know how you work.”

“And how do I work, Isis? Please tell me.”

“Underhanded tactics and simpering lead-ons. You’d have done well in 1800’s France. Except everybody there got beheaded for that stuff.” I pause and stroke my chin thoughtfully, then smile. “Yup! You would’ve done well.”

Evans is quiet. His eyes are set and hard, for once, instead of soft and evasive.

“Let me guess,” I lean forward. “You want me to tell you I got in, so that you can feel better, feel redeemed, that you entered me in their applications process, like getting me into an Ivy will make up for the pictures and the bullshit.”

He doesn’t move, or blink. I lean back.

“Newsflash, Evans – it’s called bullshit because it’s shit. Because it’s already been pooped out, and nothing can be done about it. It can’t be cleaned up. It’ll always be there. The stink will linger. It’ll always be something you’ve done. So no, I’m not going to tell you.”

Evans smiles. “You already have.”

I scoff. “Yeah?”

“You wouldn’t be nearly as arrogant if you didn’t hold the knowledge that you got in. If you didn’t get in, you’d have nothing to lord over me. You wouldn’t be dragging it out like this.”

I inhale sharply. He’s right. He’s fucking right. I learned how he works, but he’s been learning how I work all along. Clever little rat.

“For what it’s worth, I’m glad.” He smiles a softer smile.

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