Page 27 of Wicked Heirs

And the biggest deal for me? It gave me a reason to keep on going.

When that rage and hatred was directed into a whole lot of vengeance, it was like a drug coursing through your fucking veins.

It gave me strength that would likely otherwise have been sucked out of me after that hell of three years back.

The time that had changed me forever.

From the happy-go-lucky kid to a jaded, miserable fucker.

The time when I’d lost everything in a single moment.

That loss had happened at the hands of those more powerful.

They’d stripped it all away like it had been nothing of consequence.

Just because they fucking well could.

I’d managed to move forward, to move on with my life—albeit not without that nagging need for vengeance with methrough every breath I took—for the last couple of years since I’d been at Electi Academy.

Until she’d walked in through its doors.

Until Alena Rose had started walking the hallowed halls.

Seeing her here, it had opened up something else that I’d fought for so long to deny.

Pain.

It had brought that back for me.

I needed the bitch gone.

Ore was with me on it.

We’d even started on that path with her two days ago. We’d made the first dent.

She hadn’t been down to the cafeteria since.

It must’ve worked then.

When I’d asked Ore if he’d laid down the law and gotten under her skin and into her pretty little head like we’d planned, he’d been vague saying he’d done what had needed to be done tolay the groundwork.Whatever that meant.

It didn’t matter, I trusted him completely.

It likely meant he’d had a setback with her and he hadn’t wanted to tell me, because he hated the idea of failure and of not progressing with something he set his focus on.

But he’d fix whatever it really was.

He always did.

For now, I was trying to acclimate to the daughter of that cunt being here at Electi Academy, right in my space, where I’d see her day in and day out—at least until Ore got her the hell out of here.

And one of the ways Iacclimatedwas flying.

I would partially shift, just to my fiery wings and soar over the thirty-acre campus.

I wasn’t allowed to go beyond that and I physically couldn’t with the ward surrounding the whole place, that we calledthedome. It did mean that I couldn’t use my uber speed to anywhere close to its fullest, but at least it was something.

At least I could soar above the stone walls, the turrets, above the trees, everything and everyone, and reach that headspace of letting go and just… being.

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