Alpha's Possession by Jessica Hall

Chapter 2

 

FOUR DAYS LATER

Harlow

So far, there has been no news or a single word from my sister, and I’m out of descenter and had used the last of my spray last night.

Mrs. Yates was nervous when she picked me up from my room. She hardly spoke to me, and was tense as we walked to the auction house. I did my make-up the same way my sister occasionally did hers.

“You never know; your test scores could be as high as your sisters’,” she chimed happily as we reached the doors leading in.

‘Oh, they will be high, alright, because I am the sister.’ I thought dryly.

“Have you heard anything from Harlow?” I asked, curiosity lacing my voice.

Mrs. Yates became even more nervous, but she remained silent and gave a swift shake of her head.

After they ran their tests and took blood, I waited in the same foyer of the auction house. Sat in the same hard blue chairs, only this time Zara wasn’t with me holding my hand, this time I was completely alone.

Yet when Mrs. Yates came in, overly excited and bubbly, confusion crossed my features surely I didn’t test even higher. I tried to be upbeat as I knew Zara would be.

“What’s the verdict?” I asked, pretending to be excited.

“Perfect, eighty-seven percent, just like Harlow,” she announced, though I didn’t miss the way her lip quivered at mentioning my name.

cheek, and my heart started pounding against my ribcage. “Mrs. Yates?”

the paper from her hands; his greedy eyes took in the numbers printed on

a row! Oh, those Obsidians will jump on this one too. I’ll launch the auction,” he cheered, and rushed away before any of us

wandered off in his flashy suit. I

stammered as I

Harlow bled out,” Mrs. Yates admitted, staring down at her feet. I wish she

my eyes stung, and I suddenly couldn’t breathe. Something deep inside me shattered into a million sharp pieces, slicing through me like

guttural scream left my lips as I collapsed on the floor. For days, I wondered, yet heard nothing. I figured

me and stole the air from my lungs. I killed her; I killed my twin. She died because of

black, and I welcomed the darkness. Anything to

in a hospital room. Mrs. Yates hovered over me, and I tried to sit up, yet the handcuffs on my wrist

need to celebrate,” Mr.

with ice-cold tendrils piercing my

Nightbane did. See?” She pointed to the screen over on the doctor’s desk. As

that is what she believed

I’m sorry, I’m sorry about Harlow,”

I bloomed bloody early while still under the facility’s care. Two more weeks, and we could’ve signed ourselves out and paid off the debt and found our own packs! Zara always intended to stay, but I knew I could talk her into

my body, and days slipped by. Mr. Black kept me sedated and out of

my gaze pulled away from its standoff with

my pants over my hip when the door

Mr. Black screamed, bursting through the

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