Page 99 of Endless Anger
Still, I’d thought for sure my desire for Asher would have burned out by now. Imagine my surprise when I realize it’s the complete opposite, and I’m losing sleep over both the thought of my dead roommate and the outline of my former best friend’s cock under my pussy.
I swallow, rubbing my fingernails together and averting my gaze. “This isn’t a real date.”
“Then why are we all huddled in my room like it is?”
“You made me come here so you could do my hair.”
Yuri slams her book shut. “Can we circle back around to the original question and, more importantly, why it’s being asked?”
“No, let’s just forget I said anything.”
“Okay, then can we talk about the elephant in the room?” Aurora spins away, flopping down on the pink comforter tucked into her bed.
The dorms here in Rad Hall are so much nicer than the ones in Erebus and even have singles, which is what Aurora managed to snag.
Unlike Erebus, though, Rad Hall is a constant stream of parties, mostly thrown by non-organization members and lowerclassmen who don’t get invited to Curator gatherings.
Bass coming from a lower level makes the floor vibrate, and I lean toward the mirror, checking Aurora’s handiwork.
“What elephant?” Yuri asks, pulling her legs up in the bucket chair with her.
“Thecelestialshaped one?” Aurora gives her a look. “We haven’t talked at all about the fact that Lucy’s roommate was found murdered. Ourfriend.Isn’t that weird?”
Unease sinks to the pit of my stomach. I swallow, my leg bouncing as memories pump through my brain, filtering into my vision.
I guess forgetting is too much to ask for.
“Should we be talking about it?” Yuri frowns. “I mean, it’s an ongoing investigation…”
“Yeah, but remember what you said about your texts being read on Celeste’s end, even days after the police say they suspect she was actually killed?” Aurora fishes a bottle of hot pink nail polish from her nightstand and gives it a shake. “Her phone was dead the night she went missing, which means someone would’ve had to charge it at some point.”
“Maybe whoever…did that,” Yuri postulates, rubbing her chin, “kept her phone on?”
“Okay, but then why hasn’t anyone found it yet? The police should be able to locate it from GPS or whatever, right?”
“Well, you’d think the person would dump it once they realized…or maybe it died again. My texts have gone unanswered and unread for a while now. Since…”
I feel them look at me, their stares guarded and heavy.
My head swims, my suspicions mounting along with my fear of being found out.
Somethingis amiss at Avernia College, and it’s notjustthe corpses. The fact that the investigation barely even seems to be happening is shady on its own, but add in that, aside from my room, absolutely nothing on campus has changed or been blocked off? Not even the Primordial Forest?
Inhaling, I press on my kneecap, trying to get my leg to stop moving. Panic whispers at my throat, its fingertips ghosting over my skin with the smattering of things I’m keeping hidden.
If I have secrets, it wouldn’t be surprising that this school does too.
I should confess, tell them what I saw, even if it means getting into trouble.
Aurora sighs. “All I’m saying is this stuff doesn’t add up?—”
Shoving my chair back, I get to my feet, yanking the black graphicT-shirt I brought over my long-sleeved one and tucking both into my skirt.
“Uh, Lucy? What are you doing? We’ve still got to rinse your hair,” Aurora calls out as I bolt for the door.
I don’t answer though, because I’m panicking and not really sure how to make it stop.
Pressure mounts in my chest, bearing down like a thousand-pound anvil, and by the time I get to the downstairs lobby, I’m hyperventilating. Struggling to draw in my breaths, even as I rationalize that I’vetechnicallynot done anything wrong and no one knows I was there that night.
