Page 174 of A University of Betrayal

“We’re going to find out which one of you is behind this pregnancy test.”

Amber sounded confident.

God,how ridiculous. Didn’t they have problems of their own? If I were the owner of the test, I would have been super uncomfortable the whole time.

It was all too much for me, so I walked past them to go upstairs. In the middle of the stairs, someone grabbed my arm. It was Vivienna.

“You might be able to wrap the others around your little finger, but not me,” she whispered in a low voice. So low that a normal human or a Quatura couldn’t possibly have heard her.

My breath stopped.

I knew what that meant.

“I know what you are, Bayla Adams.” Her irises began to glow a light gray. It just wasn’t the tiny fibers running through her irises like spindles that burned into my mind. It was her menacingly cold words. “And sooner or later, your mother will pay for betraying the Circle like this.”

Chapter 33

Julian

Locked In A Cage

Brick + Mortar

Actually, it could have been a good morning: Getting up, avoiding the Copelands, I wouldn’t have even met the DeLoughreys because they weren’t sleeping on campus, and so I’d have a room, as well as a bathroom, to myself. Then I would have attended my lectures, followed by two piano lessons that I would have enjoyed on my own, and in the evening, I would meet Mia at Lola’s Diner to make sure she was okay.

Instead, I woke up in a cold sweat from one of those ridiculous nightmares, frantically trying to find my cell phone, realizing I’d left it in my car yesterday. So, I hurried, took a quick cold shower, and reached my car, stressed by the fact that it was being used as a rusty border wall between a modern Jeep, driven by Nash’s guys, and an athletic sports car, driven by one of the DeLoughreys.

And, as if that wasn’t enough, I got a message from Mia saying she’d injured her arm while training with the Copelands.

Normally, it was hard to make me lose my shit. But now I was raging.

On top of all that, I spotted Nash getting out of his blue jeep in the distance.

Wrong place at the wrong time, I thought to myself, and my anger multiplied.

I should never have let Mia go there.

“Hey!” I yelled angrily, marching toward the guy I’d known for far too long.

Nash stopped and turned to face me. He looked tense, but I didn’t care.

“What are you doing to her!” I shouted angrily and immediately felt my eyes glow, and the monster that dwelled inside me gave me the kick I needed to shove Nash toward his car.

He stumbled backward. His expression darkened. I stepped even closer, and he did the same.

“What are you talking about, Bardot?” he growled.

“Don’t act like that. There’s only one person I’m worried about right now!” That wasn’t entirely true, but he understood me, and that was enough for me.

“Your sister is fine.Relax.”He sounded tense, but not angry like usual. ButIwas.

“Oh, is that so?” I clenched my hands into fists, ready to punch when Nash grabbed my arm.

“We both don’t want this.”

My brows automatically drew together.

“If a single thing happens to her that sounds abnormal, I’ll get her back,” I pressed out, tensing.

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