Page 32 of Vicious Knight

Chapter 7

Ivy

“Are you serious? They were having actual sex? In front of everyone?” Isabelle’s face is a bright crimson and her eyes display the same wealth of shock I feel.

Mackenzie giggles mischievously and flicks her wrist, flaunting her just-done coffin shaped nails. “Yes they were. Everyone was. It’s a sex club.”

The girls all gasp and look at each other. Sawyer and Billie exchange curious glances. Savannah and Isabelle look like their interests are peaked. I’m somewhere in between curious and dumbfounded.

Everyone decided to assemble in my room to get their hair and makeup done for the Lords and Ladies party tonight.

The six of us are all sitting together in my living room. I’ve been on hair duty, while Sawyer and Savannah have been doing our makeup.

I’ve gone from Ivy, new girl on campus with no friends, to this little gathering which has happened every day for the last few days.

It started with me inviting them to watch a movie the other night. When they saw my room they fell in love with it.

It was so exciting to have them around that I dropped my guard and allowed them to talk me into going to this crazy party that has bad news written all over it.

Tiffany made a point of not inviting us but Eilish got us in.

We got on to the topic of sex clubs because the party is being organized by the same people who own the Dark Odyssey—a sex club.

I’ve never heard of the club before. Of course I knew that places like that existed but I didn’t know just how popular they were. Mackenzie on the other hand is a well versed and very satisfied patron.

She turned eighteen nine months ago, but has been going since she was seventeen. I get the feeling though that she might have been younger. She’s the girl with the wild streak. Sawyer is a runner up.

“And you do this?” Billie asks, looking at Mackenzie as if she’s checking she’s really telling us the truth. “I mean you go there and have sex?”

“Yeah.” Mackenzie answers as if she’s talking about the weather. “But I was with my boyfriend at the time. I’ve never been by myself.”

The said boyfriend was five years older. They broke up just before she came to Raventhorn because she caught him cheating on her with her cousin. Mackenzie is also the girl with the kind of outlandish drama you’d see on Jerry Springer.

“Would you go by yourself?” Isabelle cuts in.

With a guilty look in her eyes Mackenzie bites the inside of her lip. “Yes. I love the excitement and thrill of doing something totally wild. Something you’d never do in real life. The club allows you to step into a fantasy. Knowing the Dark Odyssey guys and the frat guys at Erebus and Lapetus, tonight is going to be one hell of a party.”

And that’s what worries me. Along with the fact that I’m very likely to see Thorne.

I haven’t seen him at all in the last three days but I’m sure he’ll be there tonight.

I haven’t been able to get his words/threats out of my head. Or the worry of him and this weird fascination he seems to have with me.

Because I haven’t seen him I’ve been hoping that maybe he’s forgotten me. It’s wishful thinking but I’m wishing anyway. Maybe he found another girl to haunt.

With his looks and status it wouldn’t be that difficult to replace me.

“You’re super quiet, Miss lady.” Isabelle looks at me and chuckles. She knows I’m nervous and that I’d prefer not to go to the party.

“I just don’t know what to expect from tonight.”

“Think speed dating meets seven minutes in heaven.” Mackenzie flashes me a wicked grin. “But we’re considered tributes to the guy you end up with.”

“And we have to agree to do anything he wants?” I fill in because she’s totally missing that part.

“Yes. That’s the fun part. Come on Ivy, where is your sense of adventure. This is college, the place where you’re supposed to live a little and experience life.”

Live a little and experience life. It sounds… normal. I’ve lived this secret life so long that I don’t know what normal feels like. I’ve never known and this—being here at Raventhorn and going to a crazy party—might be as close as I get.

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