Screaming in Silence: Fairwater Academy by W I Night

Author:W I Night [Night, W I]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

The devil is said to be beautiful, to be charismatic. He is the personification of evil and the author of sin. He charms you with his looks and tempts you through clever reasoning. This man in front of me is created in his form, wielding power in such a way that you don’t feel misled, that you stand firmly on the moral high ground of quicksand. But the more you struggle the quicker you sink, and before you realise how far you’ve gone, the pressure builds on your chest until you can’t breathe.

My phone is still at my ear, the ringing reverberating loudly as it slips from my hand, tumbling against the floor. His hair is longer than the last time I saw it, the toffee blonde strands not quite touching his shoulder, but neatly tucked back behind one of his ears, the top perfectly quaffed. He’s wearing a black button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled to his elbows and black slacks. His fingers are adorned in gold rings, and tattoos cover every inch of his body, running right up under his jawline. What catches my attention is the familiar worn brown leather watch on his wrist, stark in contrast to his sleek appearance.

His eyes are trained on me, I can feel the familiar burn trailing over my skin. It feels different to how my body heats under the gaze of the three other men in this room, when their eyes touch me it feels like the gentle caress of the sun, bright and pleasant, but you’re wary of the aftereffects of their attention. When Clarke looks at me, it feels like I’ve bathed in battery acid, the burn starts slow, but quickly becomes painful. It feels your flesh is peeling off your bones.

My eyes don’t look into his, they stay on the watch. The watch I bought him. What was once a symbol of my devotion to my savior, now a reminder of his brutality when I displease him. It was the first gift I’d bought anyone. Clarke had aged out of the system and was leaving. Leaving me. Before him, I had nothing, no one. I needed him to not forget me. I’d scrimped and saved, worked through the pain, and swam in blood-soaked waters, but I got him a token. And now it’s tainted.

I don’t even realize I’m speaking until the words left my mouth. They’re barely a whisper, but in the dead quiet of the room, I may as well have screamed. “You’re wearing the watch.”

“Of course, I am. It’s precious, just as you are, Rosie.” His words sound rehearsed, holding no warmth, and when I look at him I see his calculating eyes scanning the room, no longer looking at me as he states blandly how precious I am to him.

No one says a word. Nash has been glaring at Clarke like he’s the worst thing he’s ever seen since he stepped into the room. He is, but Nash doesn’t know that. Jack scowls at

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