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“How about Ghost?” Rook interjected, sipping his OJ.
“The Bone Man and The Ghost.” I rolled the titles around in my mouth. “Has a better ring to it, don’t you think? More…ominous?”
“So you think Rook’s nickname is better than mine?” Corvus asked, a slight curl at the edge of his lips. He was playing.
I didn’t know if I wanted to join the game just yet, though.
“Maybe,” I acquiesced, putting an end to the conversation for now as I got ready to dig into the food that was going cold on my tray.
Grey’s tray rivaled my own in terms of how full it was, and he smirked at me as he set into eating a massive pile of scrambled eggs, eyeing my tray right back.
“There’s no way you’re going to finish all that,” he said between mouthfuls, indicating my mountain of food.
“Wanna bet?”
“Fifty.”
“Make it a hundred,” I replied cheerfully, ditching the spoon for my soul to lift the bowl to my lips instead.
“You’re on.
Rook snatched the bowl before it reached my lips and hot soup sloshed over my hands and the rest of the food on my plate.
“The fuck, Rook?” I hissed, shaking soup off my hands.
He held the bowl to his nose, smelling it.
“If you wanted some you could’ve just got your own.”
He didn’t reply, and something in his dark eyes made my frustration wane. He dipped his index finger into the soup and put it in his mouth, tasting it.
A growl ripped from his lips.
“What is it?” Corvus demanded.
“It’s been tainted,” Rook spat back. “Drugged.”
Um…what?
“Are you sure?” Grey asked.
Corvus’ hand curled around his smoothie cup until his knuckles turned white. “What’s in it?”
“I can’t tell, but it’s something. Pills. Crushed up. I know that smell. I know the taste.”
The sanatorium…
What the fuck had those people done to him there?
Without another word, Grey shoved his tray away and lifted the dripping bowl of soup from the table as he stood, walking away.
“Grey, where are you…” Corvus started, but trailed off, and I spun on the bench seat to see that he was carrying the soup to Brianna’s table.
My food-deprived brain caught up to where his had already gone, and I remembered Brianna ahead of me in line. How she kept peering back at me. The fucking cunt.
I followed Grey, the others rising from the table with me as I stood, my vision tinted with crimson.
I thought I’d made myself fucking crystal clear. I warned her.
