Whispers (Larkwood Academy) by Jayce Carter

Author:Jayce Carter [Carter, Jayce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group
Published: 2022-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Hera

I stayed in my room for the rest of the day since I had nothing but the interrogation scheduled. For once, I didn’t welcome the free time.

The more time I spent alone, the more I thought back on what had happened, the angrier I got.

I’d thought I understood Kit better, that he wasn’t the scary thing I’d seen at first. I couldn’t connect the man I’d started to trust with the creature that had just destroyed a man’s arm for a lesson.

The hours passed until it hit midnight, and sleep seemed no closer than it had at the start of the night.

And maybe it was foolish, but I knew exactly where I wanted to go. I’d just watched Kit turn a man’s arm to dust in front of me, and yet as I left my room, I headed out to question him.

Even if it was stupid, I had to know. I had to reconcile the two people—the man who had looked out for me and the creature who had destroyed Charles’ arm. I wouldn’t be able to breathe until I got some understanding of it.

I took the elevator, then the bridge. There weren’t many around—a few of the more nocturnal creatures would spend time out and about at this hour, but there they were rare. That was fine by me—I’d rather not have to deal with anyone else while in this mood.

I took myself all the way to Kit’s office, then to the door in the back—the same layout as Deacon’s. I knocked on the door.

A voice came through. “Go back to your room, Hera.”

I turned the handle of the door as my response, but found it locked.

“This is not the time for us to talk,” Kit went on. “Go to sleep. There’s nothing for either of us to say.”

Once again, if my brain had been working right, I’d have known what a monumentally bad idea this was. I was bothering someone who could and was probably willing to turn me to dust. That didn’t matter, though.

I held my palm in front of the handle and popped the lock using my powers. As soon as the light flashed green and it clicked, I pushed the door open.

Kit stood a few feet away, as if he’d turned his back on me and had planned to leave me standing there as long as I wanted. He turned back toward me and narrowed his black eyes to slits. “Did you really just break into my place?”

I lifted my eyebrows and held out my hands as if to say, and what are you going to do about it?

He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. “I wasn’t kidding. We have nothing to discuss, nothing that will do either of us any good right now.”

“Why?”

He didn’t bother to misunderstand the question. “I told you before—I’m as trapped as any other shade here. My cage might look a little nicer, but it is still a cage.”

I clenched my jaw, wishing I could speak, that I could yell at him.

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