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!”

language didn’t even spark a little bit of fear today. She had felt real fear. She

to move slowly around the vast room and thought the coach would tell her to get off his floor as he always did once the

that he was enjoying this. He could see her pain, and he loved it. He was indeed a

shit you’re doing, the coach said. “The rest of you pick your weapons and get into o your assigned pairs. We

classmates ‘accidentally came at her with their weapons. The rage she usually

So comply

she was surprised to see tears. She never cried in front of people. She’d probably had several melidown, but she hadn’t

crying!” Coach Baxter

laugh that had the rest

tough now, are you, Morgan!” the

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

had succeeded. She

trying to jog and 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

you to sit

that was a big mistake. He would make her life hell, even more

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 insults had run out long before she made

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Chapter 64

the detention room, it wasn’t Mr Patrick who sat at the front of the room, li was

she asked without

became cold as she inspected her

the

Emily, she couldn’t remember which, She didn’t want to find. out if those backstabbers had been telling the truth that time, so she sighed and dragged her feet to

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