Fractured by N.O Darling

Chapter 0014

Chapter 14

I approach the door with trepidation. Has Mr Collins come to personally reprimand me for the message? Has Mason got away from Theo and has come to finish me once and for all? With my breath held I press my ear to the door in hopes I’ll pick up a clue as to who it is.

“Girl, open this damn door. I know you’re up, Theo text me” Dot’s voice shouts with another bang against the door, making me almost jump out of my skin.

I pull the door open, “You scared the shit out of me,

“Sorry,” Dot smiles innocently. “Are you coming for breakfast with us?”

“Sure, let me grab my stuff,” I rush to retrieve my bag and grab a jacket from my wardrobe, shoving my phone into the pocket. “Let’s go,” I grin, joining Dot, Joe and Max in the hall.

in

We sit at the same table we had for dinner and I choose a bowl of fruit and a croissant for my breakfast. I cast a glance over at the unbonded table. It’s mostly empty and there’s no sign of Mason or Theo. A guy with short brown hair and glasses gives me a friendly smile and I smile back, then my eyes zero in on the Starbucks coffee front of him. I’d kill for a Starbucks right now. I scan the room, looking for the coffee source but I see none. I look back to the Starbucks coffee guy and he gives me a wink and tips his cup towards me before downing the rest the drink and leaving. I need to find out where he got that.

“Where can I get coffee?” I ask Dot.

“There is a filtered coffee near the juice station but I warn you, it is rank,” she says with a shudder.

“I just saw someone with a Starbucks cup,” I frown.

“A what?”

where do I get one

have no idea what you

pick at

classes together,” Dot says and I reach into my

of

you, let’s see what he wants, she remarks and I snatch

knew it,” she giggles, “Girl, you better

spill it,” Joe grins.

nothing to spill,” I

treatment you’re getting,” she waggles her eyebrows.

“What special treatment?”

also Told that he put you to sleep for your first teleport so you didn’t get sick, and has travelled to the human realm to visit with your mother himself. Plus he has arranged extra tutoring and assigned me as your personal escort. Not

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messages to your phone, but no, nothing going

And what is the big deal

see wearing a red tie?” she shrugs. I do as she says. Most students are wearing yellow or blue ties, there are maybe ten wearing green, and the only red I see are at our table. I look back at Dot, lost for words. “Ruby is usually reserved for the elites and their bonds, they’re either rich or from

special treatment and I don’t want to feel like the poor girl hanging out with the elites. I’m not a charity case. I can

if you are Thea’s bond you’d be movetl to Ruby as

staying in a place that I shouldn’t

sorry, I didn’t mean

Theo asks, taking

Nothing.” I huff.