Chapter 64

Ava sat by herself while she waited for the coach to arrive. She ignored the others, even Emily, as she stared blankly ahead of her. There was an ache… a hole in her chest. Like something had been taken from her in that forest that she would never recover again.

She should have listened to Mr Patrick, but she had been desperate–and she was still desperate. She could feel death looming over her. It would only be a matter of time before Claire succeeded:

“Ava Morgan!”

She was startled when she heard her name and looked around to find the coach had already come in, and the others had already started the warm-

“If you are still sick, you shouldn’t have come back. I will not tolerate your laziness. Every

Everyone participates in my class!” the coach snapped.

She didn’t look him in the eye today. It wasn’t worth it. She could only get her head around one fight at a time, and the fact that the coach hated her wasn’t at the top of her list. She slowly got off the bench and started slowly jogging

But as with every step she had taken today, the pain was unbearable. It had been getting progressively worse throughout the day. Every part of her

seemed to want to shut down.

“Move it Morgan!”

One foot in front of the other. She knew what she was doing couldn’t be considered a jog. She was walking. Slowly.

“I will give you a week of detentions if you don’t move your pathetic ass!”

a little bit of fear today. She had felt real

the others had finished. But he didn’t. Long after the other sat down, she was still trying to drag herself around the room to finish

and the one look she had given him showed that he

you’re doing, the coach said. “The rest of you pick your weapons and get into o your assigned pairs. We can’t let

classmates ‘accidentally came at her with their

So comply

to see tears. She never cried in front of people. She’d probably had several melidown, but she hadn’t cried. Now, she couldn’t seem to control

you crying!”

he started laughing, a hearty laugh that had the rest of the class stop what they

tough now, are

been his aim in every training session. But something else had broken her, she juu couldn’t put her finger on it. Maybe it was the disappointment

was had

dragged herself around the room at a snail’s pace, and after a while, she couldn’t take even that. She sat down on one of the benches while her classmates

you to sit

more than he had been doing. But

was wrong and what was going on. She didn’t want for class to finish. The couch iliouted and insulted her the whole time as she walked out. It would have been epic if she could have stormed out and then slammed the door, lau thr was moving so slowly that the coach’s

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Chapter 64

the detention room, it wasn’t Mr Patrick who sat at the front of the room, li was an okier woman whom she had never

Mr Patrick?” she asked

cold as

concern,” the woman said. “Sit

She didn’t want to find. out

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