Twisted Ties (The Arrow Hart Academy Book 2) by Hannah Haze

Author:Hannah Haze [Haze, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

27

Azlan

I thought the bond was meant to weaken over time. Become more bearable. Something eventually I’d hardly notice.

It isn’t the case. The gnawing in my stomach grows stronger as each hour of the night passes, so I’m tossing and turning on Phoenix’s spare bed, unable to sleep.

By the time the day is dawning, I can’t bear it any longer. I’m going to have to see her.

Damn the consequences.

She’s mine and perhaps this separation, perhaps this creeping around and keeping it secret, is a foolish idea.

She should be by my side, in my arms.

In my bed.

I tug at my laces, tightening my boots until they cut into my skin.

My mind is turning into a sewer. Thoughts and ideas I’ve never entertained swirling through my head. Ideas and thoughts the other teenage boys used to obsess over that never interested me before. Never occupied my every waking moment.

I need to pull myself together.

I leave Stone sleeping and let myself out of his cabin, crossing the clearing and heading for the school grounds. They are empty. It’s early and there was also an attack last night. I imagine the students have been instructed to stay inside.

One of them is choosing not to obey those instructions.

My cousin, Tristan.

I’m not surprised.

I meet him as he walks down the path away from the mansion.

A bandage covers his left cheek and a bruise his right brow.

“What happened?” I ask him, and he snaps out of whatever sick thoughts had been brewing in his mind, and his cool eyes meet mine.

“Azlan.” He touches his cheek. “Are you allowed to be here?” His voice isn’t friendly.

“Rhianna was attacked last night.”

“By a werebeast,” Tristan says. “You aren’t doing a very good job of looking out for your mate.”

I ignore him. He may be efficient at provoking his little friends at this school, but I couldn’t give a damn what my little cousin thinks. He’s turning into his father. More alike every day. And I certainly don’t care what my uncle thinks either.

I examine his cheek and the bruise. “Were you attacked too?” He glares at me and doesn’t answer. “Because I understood only the girl was attacked before the beast retreated into the forest.”

“That’s what I heard too.”

“But she says,” I stare into those pale eyes of his, devoid of emotion, “something intervened.”

“I thought you’d have noticed by now that your girlfriend is several sandwiches short of a picnic, several marbles missing, several screws loose. I wouldn’t trust a word that comes out of her mouth.”

“She’s not my girlfriend. She’s my mate.”

“And you’re so close, right? She tells you everything?”

Maybe he’s becoming more adept at irritating me after all. “She wasn’t lying about this.”

Tristan smiles and takes a step towards me, and I note the slight limp to his gait. He took a beating and neither he, nor the matron, have been able to heal him completely.

“But she does lie, doesn’t she? Like I’m guessing she told you she was going back to her dorm last night, and that she’d stay there, nice and safe, all night long.

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