Wicked Vile King: A Dark Asylum Bully Romance (Godless Heathens - Chryseum Academy Book 2) by Jordan Grant

Author:Jordan Grant [Grant, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

15

AVERY

I finish the side salad on my tray, skipping the lump of spaghetti with a dinner roll beside it, and eye my mandarin oranges in a plastic cup. The rest of the eating disorder students at the table are avoiding the spaghetti and rolls too and instead poking at their salads and orange slices with their silicone forks. I look over at the table where Gabe normally sits, but he's still not there.

He said he was getting a surprise ready for me, but what is it?

No one ever surprises me with anything. My parents send me money at Christmastime and on my birthday, but it's always the same amount each year.

I'm actually kind of excited, and that's dangerous for a girl like me. I survive by not getting attached. No connections, no names, and no regrets.

Stop it, Avery.

You can't get all excited because a hot guy tells you he has a surprise for you. He's a psychopath with a fire fetish, which means it could be a bad surprise like a box of ashes, a severed finger, or, even worse, his dick in a box. For Christ's sake, you're in a mental institution, and he is crazy! Stop thinking about him!

Move. On.

You know where this leads, and it's a one-way street to rejection and pain.

You are leaving this place!

I suffocate the treasonous thoughts and swallow hard, pulling back the plastic lid on the mandarin oranges.

One slice in its own juice, five calories.

I plop one into my mouth and chew. I've eaten more at this meal than I have eaten in a long time, but I have an appetite for once, which is weird. I thought it had withered and died with all of my lady bits. I'm only ever hungry anymore when I'm about to pass out and hit the floor. Maybe his touch restarted that fire inside of me too.

Stop. It. Avery.

"You," a guard barks, coming up behind me, "walk with me. Headmistress wants to see you."

I stand as another guard takes my tray away to be weighed. My gaze immediately flicks to his table again, but his seat directly across from his probably-a-serial-killer friend is still empty. This time when I look, I catch the eyes of the only girl who ever sits with them, the one who wears the leather collar. Willow, I think her name is.

A smile haunts her lips as she looks at me, her laughter at something her creepy boyfriend has said dying in the cavernous room. She doesn't look disgusted by me, though. If anything, her gaze flicks from Gabe's empty seat to me and then back again. She just looks sort of sad as she does it, like she wishes he was there for me too, like she somehow understands why I'm looking for him. Is that what she feels for the boy who's currently playing with her collar? Does she crave his presence? I shouldn't care, just like I shouldn't crave the creep's touch, but I do.

Stop. It!

"Come on," the guard pushes, grabbing me by the elbow and steering me away from the table.

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