The Saint Mary's Duet Box Set (Gemma & Isaiah's Complete Story): A Dark Boarding School Romance (St. Mary's) by SJ Sylvis

Author:SJ Sylvis [Sylvis, SJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-10-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Six

Gemma

Isaiah and I had been standing silently in the empty forest for entirely too long. Goosebumps continued to rise over my flesh as I wracked my head for something to say to him. For something other than the annoying and unneeded apology that kept trying to escape my mouth.

I knew I had nothing to say sorry for. That whatever else laid behind those icy depths of his wasn’t my fault and likely had nothing to do with me, but I was still sorry. I was sorry that he was in a constant battle between keeping his brother safe and losing sight of himself. That had to have weighed heavily on him. It had to. Just like it weighed on me that I was in a constant battle of getting as far away from Richard as possible or getting close enough to him to find out where Tobias was. One made me feel selfish, but the other was like signing my own death certificate.

“Do you want to go back up to the bonfire?”

Moving my attention from the twigs and leaves underneath my shoes, I found Isaiah standing only a few feet away from me. His brows were raised to his hairline as he waited for my answer, and I found myself shaking my head no.

There was a glint of gloss on Isaiah’s bottom lip, like he’d recently licked it, and I felt myself pushing my back further into the tree that I was leaning on.

“Well, then what do you want to do? Go back up to the school? Go to the library to pretend we’re studying, even when we both know that’s total bullshit? Take my uncle’s car for a test drive?” He waggled his eyebrows. “I can teach you how to drive.”

An abrupt laugh flew out of my mouth. “Absolutely not.”

His lip curved until we both snapped to the left as a branch broke. The rustling of leaves quickly followed, and my heart flew up to my throat. The options were honestly endless as to what could have made such noises in the middle of the night, trapped inside a dark forest.

Isaiah was in front of me so quickly that I didn’t even have time to register the fact that he’d moved. His body covered mine as his hand clamped over my mouth. I breathed in and out of my nose, smelling pine and his earthy cologne, as fear crowded my thoughts, and shadows began to dance in the distance. Isaiah’s forehead slowly fell to mine as he whispered, “Relax. It’s probably nothing.”

Relax? It could be a bear! Or…or someone from the SMC wondering what he and I were doing sneaking away from the bonfire! Or...or Bain! Not that I would be too concerned if Bain showed up. I knew that I was safe with Isaiah. He wouldn’t let anything happen to me.

Another twig snapped in the other direction, and we both turned our heads to see if anything appeared. I glanced up to the stars and moon again as it acted as a spotlight over our bodies, and Isaiah nodded, catching what I was saying.

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