Total pages in book: 181
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 181613 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 908(@200wpm)___ 726(@250wpm)___ 605(@300wpm)
I gaze at the mask, and it feels like someone is staring right back at me. She already hates me to death, so what’s the point in sticking to the rules anyway?
“She loves him too much,” he says.
My fist balls.
Love.
What the fuck does she know about love?
“Bullshit.”
“Exactly my thoughts.”
A devilish grin forms on my face. “He chose violence. But I know how to win that game.”
Aspen
Hours later
At a local restaurant, I wait, tapping my foot on the floor while checking the time on and off. He should be here by now. We agreed on seven o’clock, and all of his classes are long done. What’s taking him so long?
Grey’s never, ever late to a date. Something doesn’t feel right.
I check my phone again, and do a double take when a message appears on my phone.
Grey: I have your pretty little boyfriend now, Aspen
An image is added of Grey sitting on a chair in the middle of a grassy field, his arms and legs bound with ropes.
Oh God.
Grey: He isn’t who you think he is … I told u what would happen if u didn’t stay away
My blood runs icy cold.
Grey: U love him? Then come and fuckin prove it before I kill him
Levi took Grey.
CHAPTER 34
Grey
Thirty minutes ago
One minute, I’m adjusting my tie in my own damn room so I can go to dinner with my girl, and then the next, a bag is thrown over my head, and my hands are tied together.
I scream into the muffled bag, trying to breathe.
A hole is punctured into the bag near my nose, and I suck in the oxygen, then scream.
Someone picks me up and throws me over their shoulder.
“No one’s going to help you now.”
That voice …
“Levi?!” I growl, and I kick the air as best I can.
The laughter that follows is unmistakable.
It’s him. It’s fucking him, and he’s taking me out of the Phantom Society?!
I thought Phantoms weren’t supposed to fucking touch other Phantoms?!
“What the fuck?!” I scream.
“You thought you could get away with what you did?”
“Let me go, or I swear to Mavis’s fucking grave I will reveal every single fucking detail about your petty little mistake to Aspen.”
“Go ahead and fucking try,” he retorts. “You don’t know shit, and she won’t fucking believe you anyway. Now sleep tight.”
TWHACK!
Aspen
Present
Still in my little black dress, I storm toward the Phantom Society, a bag filled with weapons slung across my shoulder.
I’m done with these motherfuckers trying to ruin my relationship, the only good thing in my life.
Someone’s going to die.
I don’t even wait for the doorbell to ring before I kick in the door.
“Open this door, right now!” I scream, incensed.
When I’ve nearly broken it down, someone finally opens up. “Jesus, fuck, Aspen. What the fuck are you doing?!” Talon barks. “Have you lost it?”
“Let me through,” I growl, before pushing past him.
“We just got our door repaired. What the hell is going on?”
I fish one of my knives from my bag and point it right at his face. “Where’s Levi?”
He holds up his hands. “Whoa, you don’t have to threaten me with a knife.”
“Answer me!”
“He’s out there somewhere.” He points at the forest behind me. “He left with a big bag and didn’t tell us what he was gonna do. Just that no one can follow him.”
“Fuck,” I grit, as I run right back out the door.
“Don’t bring your fucking fight to the Phantoms. I don’t want the whole house to be suspended!” Talon yells after me, but I’m already long gone.
I run toward the woods right across from the Phantom Society, Priory Forest, a place haunted by feverish memories of dreadful mistakes and death. Even the soil smells of sex and bones. People only come here for two things; to party in secrecy, or to murder. And I don’t intend to become part of the latter. But if I must … I will kill Levi to protect Grey.
He went too far this time.
Took something that I wasn’t willing to give.
And I refuse to let him kill the last inch of my happiness in this world.
The trees cast an eerie darkness over the ground as I rush into the forest, not giving a shit about the dangers ahead. Spiders and crickets crawl across the leafy bedding, and I shiver as I steady myself and look around for clues where they could’ve gone.
The forest is gigantic, surrounding the entirety of Spine Ridge University, serving as a wall to surround the property. But this wall is a never-ending nightmarish domain filled with terror, and my heart is nearly banging out of my rib cage.
Where could he have taken Grey?
I stop moving and listen.
Up ahead, a screech catches my attention.
I step closer toward the sound, masking my presence by hiding behind the trees every few steps, hoping Levi doesn’t see me. He’s at as much of a disadvantage as I am in these woods. If I play my cards right, I may be able to get the upper hand and save Grey and free him from Levi’s grasp.