Chapter 120
Ava stepped back.
y it hammered it in. She had known from the first day that she would die in this place, but hearing Mr Patrick say it
“Who wants to kill me?” she asked weakly.
But she already knew. What she didn’t know was why. Did they know what she had done?
“They know everything, Ava. I told you not to go into the forest. Everything in there belongs to them. Do you understand! They know,
The sudden burst of
of energy that she’d had was depleted. She dragged her feet to the first bench and gently lowered her body. She felt n still felt as if her body had broken into pieces.
If they knew, why was she still here? That was the number one rule of the academy. Never step foot into the forest.
“And that’s what’s been keeping me u
me up at night,” Mr Patrick said.
“Stop that.”
no pain but
She felt too drained to concentrate on shielding her thoughts.
“You’ve brought attention to yourself, Ava. I gave you that potion so you could spend the rest of the evaluations in the infirmary, but you still came back. It’s almost as if it didn’t affect you.”
It wasn’t a question, yet she could see many of them in his eyes, almost like he was still reading every little thought in her head. She thought of sheep. Of kittens and puppies.
can trust me, Ava. You’re not as good at shielding your thoughts as you think,” Mr Patrick sighed as he went to sit on the seat across the aisle from her
“I shielded them from the Council,” she pointed out
Or had she? Was this all happening because of her! Had she given them all the information they needed!
I’d appreciate it if you kept that secret,” he
‘ve just
book; you read minds, I think you even disappear into thin air sometimes, and you’ve
“Because you’re
never alone. I don’t want
knew a lot about her, but she knew nothing about him. It wasn’t fair. “The world’s not fair,” he said. “And there is a whole world
will never
in my
it off or something! I
bench and felt even more drained than when she had woken up. Maybe she
lessons
I’ve had
have the energy to ask why he would be in danger. She sighed as she put her head down on the
watching me and my pack. I don’t
from
is
park had received their invitations from the Council and left the same week she had, she’d seen none of her old tormentors here. Now that she
with a dismissive wave of his hand. “That’s not the point. They’ve been testing you,
a good thing, isn’t
because now you
a threat to them or
still don’t get it.
forest. I think I
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Chapter 120
okay. And right now, you don’t even look like
they did something to me?” she asked, her panic rising as
blanked her
to me. The
of the room. “If you can’t trust me, that’s fine, but listen to m President of Phoenix
“Okay,” she said hesitantly,
some faceless person that no one ever saw. Dean Russell’s word was law on
stopped pacing, looked at her, and then shook his
die,” he said. “How can you be that clueless! Who
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