Wicked Lies: A RH Dark Bully Romance by Mae Doyle

Author:Mae Doyle [Doyle, Mae]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The next day passed without incident, too, and I was starting to let my guard down, at least until dinner. The chef had really outdone themselves with grilled trout, steamed kale, and an incredible granola for dessert. I dug right in, but Harper and Maggie pushed their plates away, looking worried.

“Rose, we need to talk to you.” Harper’s faced was strained and she chewed her lower lip while she waited for me to respond. I couldn’t answer, since my mouth was full of fish, so I just nodded. “Maggie and I found something in our bedrooms.” She lifted her hand up from her lap and held it out to me. Coiled on her palm was a leather braided bracelet.

I choked and reached for my water, downing half of it before I could breathe again. “You both had one of these?” My hand hovered near hers. I wanted to reach out and touch it, but I was almost afraid of it, like it were a snake or something else that could hurt me. Ridiculous. Closing my fingers around it, I lifted it by the bead and let it spin in the air between us.

Maggie nodded. “We both got the bracelets and letters that we needed to start wearing them. We, uh, haven’t, obviously, but I don’t know that we have much of a choice.” She looked terrified, but I scoffed, dropping the bracelet onto the table.

“Why don’t you think you have a choice?”

Harper swallowed hard. “They said that we had to, or we’d lose our scholarships.”

“That’s ridiculous. You and I both know that they can’t do that. What, do the rogues think that they run the school or something?” I popped another bite of flaky trout into my mouth and sighed. This place may have been a hellhole, but at least the food was heavenly. If nothing else, I wanted to stay just so I could keep eating what the chef came up with.

“Actually, Rose, we were called in to see Mr. Taylor after class today.” Maggie couldn’t meet my eyes, but Harper was staring at me, nodding. “He told us that the bracelet was a part of the dress code and we needed to wear it or we’d be in noncompliance and would have marks against us.”

“Marks? For a bracelet? They do see how the rogues and the harpies dress, right?” Glancing over at their table, I saw that they were all quiet, watching us. It was eerie, but even though I was a little scared of them, it didn’t detract from the fact that there were, undoubtedly, the most attractive people I’d ever met.

Maybe gorgeous people really did run the world.

“Yeah, and if we have too many marks we’d get expelled.”

“Okay,” I said, thinking fast. “How many marks will they give you for not wearing it? And how many does it take to get expelled? It really seems like the dress code doesn’t matter as much as maybe we think it does.”

Harper shook her head. “We would get the maximum number of marks on the first day that we’re not wearing the bracelets.

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