Total pages in book: 121
Estimated words: 114617 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 573(@200wpm)___ 458(@250wpm)___ 382(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 114617 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 573(@200wpm)___ 458(@250wpm)___ 382(@300wpm)
I hesitated. “Nia, if this is because of what I said—”
“It is,” she sliced in. “Get stronger, and then get even. Isn’t that right.” It sounded like a question, but it wasn’t.
Looking her in the eyes, I tipped my chin. “You’re right.”
“Good.” She straightened in her seat, steeling herself as she patted her rainbow butterfly clips. “I told the guys, and now I’m telling you that I want everything to go back to how it was. Number one: Don’t take bullshit from Raza because of me.” Her voice was hard. “You wouldn’t have done that before. Don’t do it now.”
“You asked me to stop landing you in detention before,” I reminded her.
“I know, but this is different. Raza is abusing her power and”—golden eyes flashed the power and fury of a wolf—“I’m getting real fucking sick of people doing that.”
My part smile blew into a real one. “Agreed.”
A chime drew my attention to my pocket. I was keeping my phone on me at all times now after discovering the day before that my room had been searched again. I knew because the stranger’s scent was heavy in the air, and the note I had taped to the vanity was removed and put back half an inch higher than where I put it.
I stared at that note enough times to notice that detail. I only wondered how long the intruder studied the note trying to crack it. However long was a waste of time because they never would. It was a code I invented based on a forgotten line in a book no one’s read, and then I translated said code into a dead language.
I had no fear that someone would discover what it said, and what drove my ultimate endgame. But I was a tad worried someone—Edric—would crack my second phone and discover a few too many secrets waiting for their big reveal—like the list.
I had gotten rid of the paper trail and now kept the hitlist on my phone. Can’t have that found, or chance Edric cracking the encrypted texts between me and Lucia.
There’s so much subterfuge in world domination, I mused, clicking the notification that appeared from my Loop-Garou app. Who knew? The app opened up, going straight to the video tagged on my profile.
The phone shot out of my clenched grip.
All around me, chimes, rings, beeps, and song clips tickled my ear as everyone in the frickin’ mess hall opened Loop-Garou, and got an eye full of my naked, bleeding ass dangling from the ceiling. Nyx even gave the video a name.
Pinata de Bitch
Laughs went up so loud and punishing, it flattened my ears against my head.
“Oh, gods,” Nia breathed, cringing. I knew she got to the point when Orion set my feet on fire, because my head-splitting screams burst out of the speakers.
“Look at that,” someone taunted. “Volana barks like a bitch, but squeals like a pig.”
“Attention, attention, everyone.” Nyx was standing on top of the table. “I hope you’re enjoying another NyxNight Production, but show a little support for the creator and buy the merchandise.”
I didn’t have a clue what the asshole was talking about until Edric, Orion, Badr, Ava, Elizabella, Melisent, Tulisa, and the rest of Ava’s epsilon crew opened their backpacks, dumped out the contents, and held them up for all to see.
Pictures of me hanging from the ceiling titled Pinata de Bitch stamped on every shirt, sweater, baseball cap, bandana, and even some earrings. The only one who didn’t have a backpack full of that fuckery, was Paxton.
“Guys!” he shouted. “Nyx, what the hell! I told you to delete that video!”
Nyx grinned down at him. “You did tell me that, brother, but you forgot one thing: you don’t give me orders.”
Paxton’s hands flew up. Clapping his palms together, he yanked them apart and a swirling torrent of water appeared above his head—summoning in the time it took me to blink. He swept the wave down the table, collecting most of the clothes within the shifting, writing orb of—
“Get out!”
Paxton bolted out of the mess hall so fast, he blew my hair back running past.
The waterball splashed on the table, soaking Ava, the epsilons, and my other fates. The hollow victory he won me ended with a single sound.
Nyx laughed out loud. “Sorry for the interruption, guys, but it looks like we’ve got an upgrade. Wet t-shirt contest!”
I roared up on them, shoving through the crowd of people that ran up on the dais. “What the fucking hell!” I shrieked. “I thought this was over. I thought we had a truce!”
“We did,” Orion replied, smirking away. “Nia just ended it.”
“What?” Nia cried from across the room.
“We were good with you as long as we were good with her,” Orion explained. “We weren’t about to cause trouble for you if it’d cause problems for Nia. But now that she’s ready to move on and deal with her business, the five of us are going to deal with ours.”