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Orion opens the door for us, and Alina lets go to step out first.
I look back. The door to the room we were in is closed.
I’m not going to get the chance to speak to the Alpha.
All I can do now is hope that Alina didn’t sacrifice anything for me.
She’s already lost enough because of me. I don’t want her to have to give up anything else.
I step out onto the porch, and Orion touches my shoulder to make me turn.
He signs, “Goodbye.”
I blink at him, not believing it.
One of the Alpha’s sons knows a little ASL?
There’s literally no reason for him to learn.
I’m the only girl in Nightshade who’s deaf.
He wouldn’t learn something like that just for me.
Would he?
He smiles before he closes the door.
I walk away with Alina, trying to catch up as she heads to the cafeteria.
I can’t get her to slow down, so I rush a little to catch up in the hope that we’ll get the chance to talk before the other girls get to work.
Chapter Six
Lita
Unfortunately,Alinadoesn’tseemkeen to talk about what happened at the Alpha’s house, and her reluctance only makes my anxiety worse. I need to know what’s going on, but all I can do is help my guardian get everything ready in the kitchen, like every other day.
We’re here early, which should give us time to talk, but she keeps shaking her head when I try to ask what happened. It’s driving me insane. I stop in front of her when she puts down the cutlery box, blocking her path.
I take out my notepad and write on it, “I need to know.”
I underline the “need” and hold it up until she looks at it.
She sighs, her eyelids closing.
Whatever she doesn’t want to tell me must be bad.
When she opens them, she shakes her head, but then, she signs, “He says there are no monsters.”
I blink, sure she must have signed something the wrong way.
“What?” I ask, frowning.
“The rituals,” she says. “He stopped doing them a while ago. Weeks, maybe a couple months.”
Oh, sweet Goddess, no.
Those rituals keep the things that live inside The Abyss at bay.
