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“What?” I stopped then, eyeing over each of them like they were insane, because they were. “I don’t know what the hell you’re—”
They each charged, Janice moving first. I dropped my backpack and as she made to strike me, I dodged it and kicked the bitch hard in her stomach. Gretchen grabbed my arm as I threw my other arm back, aiming to strike the bitch in her face. Kinsley grabbed my fist, stopping me.
Fear raked over me as they began tugging me toward the water.
I couldn’t swim. I’d drown if they threw me in there.
“NO!” I cried, fighting to break away from them. I yanked my arm away from Gretchen and elbowed her in the face. She released me, growling before she righted herself and kicked me hard in the back as I made to bash Kinsley in her face.
I toppled over the edge, screaming, tugging Kinsley down along with me as I fell inside the pool. I held onto her, screaming my fucking head off as our heads emerged above water. Kinsley cursed and started to swim away.
I grabbed onto her, sinking her down as I struggled to keep myself afloat. A blow to my ribs left me breathless. As my hold on Kinsley seized, my head sank below water. I thrashed and thrashed, heaving in a deep gulp of air when my head came up long enough only for me to suffer a vicious head-butt to the face.
“You took Isaac from me,” Kinsley furiously hissed as she grabbed my soaked blazer, holding me up. My blurred vision struggled to align with her heated eyes, my heart jackhammering. “He dumped me, all because ofyou.But he can’t have you if you’re dead!”
“Kinsley,” I rasped. “Please. I-I can’t swim.”
“Good!”
She punched me hard in the face, my heavy arms unable to swing up in time to stop her. She shoved my head down, holding me there. I screamed underwater, my hands scratching at her wrists to release me.
The longer she held me there, the harder it was for me to remain calm. I kept telling myself to play dead, that I needed air. Black spots had already started dotting my eyes before I could demand my brain and body to cooperate with my thoughts.
My limbs froze, drifting underwater. She released me, but I’d already sank too low under to grab her again.
I needed air. I needed to breathe.
But as I sank lower and lower, down to the bottom, I knew it was too late.
I was gonna die.
My eyes fluttered close, welcoming the darkness.
Chapter 35
Phantom
Isangalongtomy favorite song,Death is All AroundbyThe Amity Affliction,breathing in deeply as the chorus boomed through my ears, sinking down deep through my skin and bones, making me shiver.
And I hear you, can you feel me?
I am so down, can you feel me drown?
I waited for the chorus to end, my eyes closed, embracing the rush from the lyrics.
I fucking needed this. The release. After Rhett’s fucking bullshit and me damn near killing him in our dorm, I’d rushed straight here to the gym to work the anger off.
I’d been here for hours, not giving a fuck about classes because really, what could they fucking do to me? I was a Ravager. A fucking king. I could do whatever the fuck I wanted in this luxury fortress, and nobody would ever make the mistake of questioning me.
I thought coming here would help burn the edge off, but it didn’t do shit to help my mood. I had enough of this fucking bullshit. Ever since Samara arrived, Rhett and Isaac both had been acting like two drunk in love puppies. Between Father forcing us to reopen the trials and this arrangement we’d agreed to with Jace Reyez to stop this Harvest bullshit right around the corner, her joining the trials was the last fucking thing we needed.
I knew what the fuck he was doing. Rhett couldn’t fool me. Wanting Samara in the trials was just his way of preventing me from getting rid of her. He knew about the shit I’d pulled with Samara’s class schedule. How I’d gotten her thrown in the dungeon. Both of my brothers knew. While they chose the smarter option not to approach me about it, this whole trial bullshit was their way of trying to get back at me.
Isaac was part of it too.
I was sure of it.
He wouldn’t have acted so calm over the proposition otherwise.
