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!

them. And I’d appreciate it if you kept that

‘ve just

the thing with that book; you read minds, I think you even disappear into thin

“Because you’re

don’t

about her, but she knew nothing about him. It wasn’t fair. “The world’s not fair,” he said.

will never

in

that Can you turn it

felt even more drained than when she had

lessons

intrude, but it’s a habit I’ve had to maintain. Makes it

ask why he would be in danger. She sighed as she put

watching me and my pack. I don’t

from

pack is

the same week she had, she’d seen none

a dismissive wave of his hand. “That’s not the point.

a good

because now you

you’re either a threat to them or a

get it. I met them, but

mention the forest. I think I got out of that

En Check–in

Chapter 120

don’t even look like you spent two days in Isolation,” Mr Patrick sighed.

asked, her panic rising as

her mind

to me. The

of the room. “If you

“Okay,” she said hesitantly,

read about, Phoenix Academy had a president Just some faceless person that no one ever

pacing, looked at her,

“How can you be that

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