Wicked Love by Mae Doyle

Author:Mae Doyle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

The look Mr. Taylor was giving us was one that I can honestly say I hadn’t seen before. He wasn’t amused, exactly, but he wasn’t pissed, either. It was a bit unnerving, to say the least.

It made me shift in my seat a bit, but when I realized that the rogues were all sitting still and hadn’t moved, I sat upright, lifted my chin, and stared Mr. Taylor in the face. He needed to know that we were all in this together, no matter what that meant.

“Please stop me if I’m not getting this right,” he said, a slight smirk on his face. “But you four want me to believe that Brett didn’t really die but something called the council made his mom have a funeral and then hid him away so that we wouldn’t know he was okay? All because you,” he said, pointing at me, “didn’t leave Taylor Prep when they told you to?”

None of us answered for a moment. In fact, when he put it like that, it was easy to see how it all sounded just a little bit ridiculous. I opened my mouth to speak but Brett got to it for me.

“That’s about right, sir,” he said, nodding his head. “My mom and I were moved into a home not far from here and I was told that Rose had died. They told me that I needed to be kept away from school for a while for observation to make sure that I was really okay.”

Mr. Taylor raised an eyebrow. “Do you mind to tell me who, exactly, was in charge of you being locked away with your mom and not allowed to return to school?” He steepled his fingers in front of his face, which, if he was like any other adult that I’d dealt with before, told me that he didn’t believe a word we were saying.

Brett sighed, like he was already exhausted, even though we’d only been in the meeting for a few minutes. Mr. Taylor had wanted to cut right to the chase of why we were there, which I appreciated, but it also made me nervous.

“I know that this sounds ridiculous,” Brett said, ignoring Mr. Taylor when he scoffed, “but there’s a whole group of people called the council who are trying to run the school. It’s not that they want to be the headmaster,” he said quickly, when Mr. Taylor frowned at him, “but they want a role in admissions and who gets to graduate from Taylor Prep.”

“And you think that these people are involved enough to fake your death and your funeral? Who’s to say that it wasn’t a little publicity stunt by the Cox family?” Mr. Taylor took a sip of his coffee and leaned back in his chair while he waited for an answer.

I was sure that he wasn’t expecting one from me, but I piped up anyway. I’d been quiet long enough. “You saw his mom at the funeral! Do you really think that

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