Untamed- House of Berserkers by Lacey Carter Andersen

Author:Lacey Carter Andersen
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Phoenix Press LLC
Published: 2020-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Kiera

The Dean of Discipline glares at me over his desk. His fingers are steepled in front of his mouth, his tie askew and sweat beading his shaved head. “Explain it to me again. Explain why your teacher is in our medical ward, having sustained massive injuries from something you did to him.”

I try to keep my voice light. “Again, I’m not really sure—“

“I have a dozen students that saw you go berserk.”

My mouth closes. Should I keep denying it?

He sighs and leans back in his chair. “And yet, a female who can go berserk…that’s unbelievably rare. I did some research. Are you aware that only two women have had that ability, as far as our history books are concerned?”

I’d known it was rare. I hadn’t known it was that rare.

“The House of Berserkers still wants you, Kiera. If you decide to become the wife of the king, we can arrange your departure—“

“No.” I didn’t know a lot of things, but I knew I wasn’t going to become that monster’s bride.

“Kiera—“

“Would you want your daughter to marry him?” I ask, the question a snap of anger.

He flinches and avoids my gaze. “If you remain here, there will be consequences for what you’ve done. Consequences I’m not sure you’ll survive from.”

“Would you choose it over marrying that fucking asshole?”

He sighs again, louder than before, and finally looks at me again. “In the Wicked Reform School, the line between right and wrong is paper thin…and it moves a bit. I do a lot of things I’m not proud of, but I’m not in the business of selling women. If you decide not to go to the king, I won’t protect you here, but I also won’t make you go.”

My hands unclench, and I wipe my sweaty palms on my knees. “Good. I won’t go.”

“You’ll take the punishment?”

I don’t like the sound of that, but I nod.

He lifts up his phone and pushes a button. After a minute, he speaks. “Go ahead and arrange the punishment for injuring a teacher.”

When he sets the phone down, he motions for me to leave the office.

I rise, but stop at the door. “Dean?”

“Yes?”

“Do berserkers ever…serve their time? Do they ever get out?”

He’s quiet for a long time before saying, “I have things to do.”

What he doesn’t say lays heavy on me as I close the door.

I leave his office. Outside, the secretary looks worried. “Henry will show you where to go.”

My stomach sinks as the silent golem leads me across the campus. I honestly can’t believe this is only my second day, and I’ve already managed to screw up so badly. It wasn’t that I blamed myself for what happened. Mr. James forced me to change. It was just that my plan to obey the rules and get out of here was looking more and more like a pipe dream.

That was if I could even survive until “graduation.”

The afternoon sun beats down at us as we pass the dining hall. I take a deep breath, inhaling the scents of meat and potatoes.

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