Chapter 142 CHAPTER 142
Draco finally let me go after one more session of him filling me up.
He'd crossed the line and wanted to enjoy it before the consequences would crash on us.
And then the blissful moment was over and I had to leave.
“Make sure you come to my office tomorrow morning so I can draft out a training schedule for you.”
“How will that work with normal school schedules?”
“Oh, that's over. Everyone now does Flying Theory with Florian. You will have to attend. I don't know what's happening between you both but that's non-negotiable.”
“Okay. So I have to stay in the hostel now?”
“Yes, I got you new things since you dumped everything on your adventure. They've been delivered to your room.”
“Oh, thank you so much.”
“Yes, don't disappear on me again or I might be forced to take extreme measures.”
I rolled my eyes and began heading to the door.
“I saw that!”
“We're still doing that?”
A hand clasped around my neck and he dragged me back to his chest.
“You think you can now disobey me now?”
“Draco?”
“Sir. Say it.”
Gosh, why was I getting turned on again?
“Sir Draco?”
“No. Just sir. Now be a good girl and go before I lock you in here and indulge your body more than I should.”
“Yes sir.”
“Good girl,” he purred, and then reached down slowly from my neck to my breast.
He squeezed once and reluctantly released me.
I ran out of the door quickly. I've been with Zade long enough to know what that growl meant
If he gets his hands on me again, we won't be able to separate for the rest of the night and I have a lot of grovelling to do.
I pulled the Principal's shirt tighter around my neck and body, taking routes that were lonely and dangerous but I was scared of people's mouths now rather than enemies.
When I got to the hostel, through the back rather than the front, where I could hear the chatter of several voices, I stopped.
The walk here was long, after taking a cab everywhere on earth and now walking, the adjustment was uncomfortable but despite the time I spent walking, I still have no idea what to say when I get there.
Erin became my friend when she didn't need to.
She could have just pointed me in the right direction and taken several steps back from the colossal trouble I was always getting into.
Akua and Mira were assholes at the beginning but somehow along the way, we developed a strong bond.
Something I've never had before.
And I botched it.
I was scared, scared they wouldn't understand my need to leave and instead of giving them the benefit of doubt, I took the coward's route.
The thing is, I didn't think I would be coming back, but now I am and I feel like a fish out of water.
I swallow and continue moving; it's best to get it over with.
A story was finally forming in my head when I finally got onto our floor, which was thankfully empty, most people were already retiring to bed.
I pushed the door and I took a deep breath before walking in.
My eyes found Erin's first.
She was reading a book and I don't know what I was expecting but silence and ignoring my existence wasn't on top of the list.
Akua was bringing clothes from her closet to the bed.
She didn't even turn.
Mira was already sleeping, as I shut the door, she turned, saw me and went back to her previous position, ignoring me completely.
“Okay, I guess I deserve that,” I muttered under my breath.
Crickets.
I walk in deeper, my hands clammy.
“I know you guys deserved better than how I treated you, disappearing like that but I didn't have a choice. I was trying to find a better way to live that didn't include death threats every day, and leaving seemed the best option. That doesn't make leaving without telling you guys any better but I was scared. You girls gave me connection, a community, support and I relied on you in my worst times and I –”
“Girl please shut up, some people are trying to sleep and we can't sleep with the Principal to get ahead during the trials. We actually need to rest.”
Mira.
“I'm sorry,” I muttered and went to sleep.
I felt like crap and I cried myself to sleep.
The next morning, the silence was worse now, they weren't even talking to me.
“Come on guys, I didn't mean to do this. I am truly sorry.”
Erin came to my closet, picked a book she must have dropped there and walked back quietly.
“Erin? Please talk to me, hell, yell at me or anything. I deserve it, Akua? Mira?”
One by one, they walked away from the room, leaving me there like that.
I furiously wiped away the tears that were gathering in my eyes and I prepared for the hell I was going to experience today.
It started with the washroom.
“Oh look, Master Zade's plaything decided to come back,” someone said and everyone burst into laughter.
“What happened? You don't like your home anymore?”
“Leave me alone,” I grunted and went to wash away some of the pain clinging to my body.
“I hope you are ready for the Trial. Wouldn't want you falling to your death,” Gwen winked, her beautiful dimples mocking me.
More backtalk kept happening in front of me as I quickly showered but I forced myself to endure it.
I don't know what I did to deserve it but I endured it.
Then I finished preparing but didn't know where the classes were being held so I had to walk with them.
Kept hearing them talk about me.
Then to my shock, I realised the class was holding around the dragon Pens.
I'd not even gotten there when I heard Valyra’s voice in my head.
“I had such high hopes, but you disappoint me, Daughter of Zharion.”
I was at my goddamn wits' end.