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Conri had only made their lives worse.
Eventually, they stopped trying to break out.
They knew there was nothing we could do.
I knew that.
But deep down, I hoped that someday, somehow, I would be able to free them. To have them go back to their houses and restart life the best way they could.
That was only a dream.
I handed the plate to Jay, our healer apprentice, and he nodded at me. “Thank you, Miss Raika,” he whispered. Every time I looked at him, I pitied the boy. He was probably twenty years old like me, but he looked fifteen because he was skinny and he cowered into himself all the time. But our healer died during the attack and he was all we had. Thankfully, no one had gotten seriously ill in the past year.
I smiled at him. “You don’t need to call me that. Just Raika is fine.”
“I know, Miss Raika.” He sat down on the classroom floor and turned his attention to his food.
I shook my head and moved on.
“How’s life on the top side?” Lucille asked when I stopped in front of her classroom.
I stared at her—even knowing they took showers once a week, she was still pretty. Her blond hair wasn’t as brilliant and voluminous as it once was, her skin wasn’t as flawless, but her hazel eyes were just as fierce.
Once upon a time, she had been a bitch who was madly in love with the alpha’s son. But then he left us, she was captured, and like most of us, she lost the rest of her family … and in the past year, she turned a little less bitchy.
“How’s Minsi?” Dom asked from her side.
I frowned. Dom had been the alpha’s son’s best friend, and he had lost his own younger sister, so his worry about Minsi was only natural.
“She’s fine,” I said, my voice tight.
“Any more panic attacks? Is she still barely speaking?” He asked those things at least once a week.
And whenever he asked those questions, Tyren straightened and listened closely. He was Minsi’s brother. I had tried having him moved to the house with us, but Conri wouldn’t allow it.
“She—“
“Stop talking, bitch,” Serge snapped from the next classroom’s door. “You should be ashamed of yourself.”
“Serge, stop it,” Rue said. She pushed the empty cart back to the outer door. “She’s the reason you get a decent meal every day.”
“That’s exactly my point.” Serge wrapped his hands around the bars and stared at me. “Why hasn’t the devil thrown you in here? Why do you live in the alpha’s mansion with Minsi? Why do you have privileges no one else does?”
Good question. I didn’t know it either.
“Because she's been sleeping with him,” Lonan shouted from his classroom.
“She probably helped them come in,” another one said and a few yeahs sounded from every classroom.
One year.
We had been at this for almost a year, and they still said the same nasty things. The first few times, my temper won and I yelled at them. Once, I even had a fist fight with Lucille. But she didn’t believe I was involved anymore. At least, that was what she said.
Though I was able to control myself better now, their insinuations still got to me.
My fists clenched.
Rue turned to me and shook her head slowly.
