Page 63 of Escaping Hallow Hill Academy
Dread curls in my stomach.
And I can’t help but feel like something worse is headed our way.
Chapter Seventeen
It never comes.
The bad never comes.
Krist never noticed the fact that I’d pilfered from her office. Even though I slept with one eye open every night for the next few days, no one came to haul me back to the labs or punish us for what we did.
It puts me on fucking edge.
And every night, with my eyes half-lidded, I noticed something that made bile gurgle in my gut.
Kira is still locked in the lab. Every fucking day they keep her there and only let her wander out at night.
I’ve passed her in the halls, and I even spotted her peering in on me during classes, but she says nothing.
The blank smile that slices up her face sends more and more panicked energy through my body.
What! What is she waiting for?
More importantly, what the fuck have they done to her to make her walk around like a zombie?
They’ve had her in their clutches for too long. And too much time has passed.
Too fucking much.
Kira has been experimented on for almost a week now, and it’s time for us to save her from that.
“We shouldn't do this. Lady of Death is warning us, Em,” Sialen whispers so harshly, I feel every one of his words graze across my neck as I count down the minutes in the darkness of the room.
We’re right back in the last place I ever wanted to be.
The lab.
I can’t wait any longer.
Maybe we won’t escape tonight, but I can’t let another night pass knowing what they're doing to Kira.
They did it to me. And I’m fucking sitting around while they do it over and over again to her.
I can’t do it any longer.
Styx watches the hall, but it’s total silence stinging around us. Rueren’s body is pure tension, but I know by the blood-red color of his eyes that he’s ready for whatever is about to come.
My sword is held low in my hands. My boots are firmly planted with every muscle in my body ticking with deadly anticipation.
There’s a bright white light within the room around the corner.
The lab.
Dr. Hyde’s lab.
Is he in there? Is the bastard in there with Kira?
Will I truly be able to let him slip past me and focus on the young girl I want to help so badly? Will I really be able to let the mysterious doctor walk away without repercussion of what he’s done to us?
