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!

it if you kept

‘ve just

did the thing with that book; you read minds, I think

“Because you’re

alone. I don’t

about him. It wasn’t fair. “The world’s not fair,” he said. “And there is a whole world

never tell

in

doing that Can you turn it

bench and felt even more drained than when she had woken up. Maybe she needed to

lessons

a habit I’ve had to maintain. Makes it easier

have the energy to ask why he would be in danger. She sighed as she put her head down

me and my pack. I don’t

from

pack is

from the Council and left the same week she had, she’d seen none of her old tormentors here. Now that she thought of it, that was odd. Why had they separated

dismissive wave of his hand. “That’s not the point. They’ve been testing you, and I

a good thing,

because now you

you’re either a threat to

still don’t get it. I met them, but

the forest. I think I

En Check–in

Chapter 120

And right now, you don’t even look like you

she asked, her panic rising as she lifted her head. “Everything’s been different

her mind

to me. The

and started pacing in front of the room. “If you can’t trust me,

“Okay,” she said hesitantly,

human universities she had read about, Phoenix Academy had a president Just some faceless person that no one ever saw. Dean Russell’s word was law on the

looked at her, and then shook his

said. “How can you be that

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