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9
Raven
I satagainst the white wall staring at Delores. The room they threw us in was totally empty. It wasn’t a replica of the last time I’d been here. Same white walls, and bare floor. Same blinding florescent lights. Same feel of utter dread seeping into my bones. But this time I was in a larger room and this time, I had company.
I could have done without the company.
Delores had her knees pulled up against her chest, her arms wrapped around them. Her chin rested on her knees and she was glaring at me with her sea green eyes. “This is your fault you know.”
I leaned my head against the wall. The real torture of being in here was having to spend time out with the girl I’d tried to knock out.
“We wouldn’t be here if you just stayed in your place like you should,” she said.
I lifted my head and stared at her, my brows furrowed. “In my place?”
“You don’t belong here, we both know that,” she said. “You’re nobody. You didn’t spend your whole life being groomed to come to this school. You didn’t have to outshine all the other kids or earn the best test scores. Shit, you didn’t even know how to cast a spell when you got here.”
“That’s what this is all about?” I asked. “That I’m not good enough for your school?”
“You’re not,” she said. “You shouldn’t be here. It threw everything off. Years of hard work and planning.”
“Years of planning what, exactly?” I asked. “Because last I checked, the thing you’re the most mad about was that I got the guy.”
She scoffed. “You gotallthe guys. Not justone. You took the four most eligible bachelors and claimed them all. I’m still not even sure how you pulled it off.”
“We have a bond,” I said, though I wasn’t sure why I was bothering to explain anything. I didn’t owe her a thing. “It wasn’t planned.”
“Right,” she said. “You just happened to bond with those specific men.”
I sighed. “You know, I don’t care what you think.”
“I should be impressed,” she said. “I can’t even pull off that kind of scam and I’m a siren. My power is literally to entrap men.”
I laughed. I knew she meant it as an insult, but it struck me as amusing. How often had I been completely overwhelmed by the fact that I hadfourmates? The idea was impossible to wrap my head around at first. Yet, now that they were mine, it was the only way I could imagine my life. I was part of each of them and they were all a part of me.
It was beyond magic or enchantments. Our connection was something else that was so much deeper. Like our souls connected. We were impossible to separate.
“What’s so funny?” she asked.
“You,” I said. “How you actually think I went around trying to find a way to convince each of these intelligent, powerful men to follow me around or something. As if I could train them. You know them better than that. You know they’re all smarter than that. Even your enchantments would wear off eventually.”
She set her forehead down on her knees, hiding her face. Apparently, the conversation was over.
I stood, feeling suddenly too restless to sit. Our prison had a single door. White with a small window and a silver door handle. I walked over to it and stood on my tiptoes to peek out the small square window. Beyond our room, I could see the white hallway and an identical door across from us.
There weren’t any signs of other people around, though. I lowered back to my feet and let out a sigh. How long were they going to keep us in here, anyway?
I ran a hand through my hair and started pacing the room. I wondered what was going on out in the school without me. Did all my mates already know I was here? Had any of them found out about Violet?
I stopped walking, suddenly terrified.
What if they went to Dr. Green? What if they told someone?
It was obvious that the fae who was threatening me was the one who had hurt Violet. Had he seen her and I talking during gym class before I walked into the locker room?
I walked over to Delores and kicked her shoe.
She looked up at me with a snarl. “What?”
