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!

like them. And I’d appreciate it if you

‘ve just

read minds, I think you even disappear into thin air sometimes,

“Because you’re

don’t want to

answer her question. Mr Patrick knew a lot about her, but she knew nothing about him. It wasn’t fair. “The world’s not

never tell

looking in

at least just stop doing that Can you turn it off or something! I can’t

than when she had woken up. Maybe she needed to go to the Infirmary

lessons

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

he would be in

and my pack.

from

is

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

pack. Your pack,” Mr Patrick said with a dismissive wave of his hand. “That’s

a good thing, isn’t

because now you

threat to them or

it. I

I think I

En Check–in

Chapter 120

your first mistake. No one gets out okay. And right now, you don’t even look like you spent two days in Isolation,” Mr Patrick sighed. “Have you been feeling any… changes

they did something to me?” she asked, her panic rising as she lifted her head. “Everything’s been different

her mind

to me. The

of the room. “If you can’t trust me, that’s fine, but listen to m

“Okay,” she said hesitantly,

do with anything? Like all the human universities she had read about, Phoenix Academy had a president Just some faceless person that no one ever saw. Dean

stopped pacing, looked at her, and then

can you be that clueless! Who owns Phoenix

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