Chapter: CHAPTER 49 What the city swallowedHugo didn't know when he started rushing out of the female tower. One moment he was standing there, and the next he was sprinting across the courtyard, his heart pounding in his ears. He threw himself into his car and started the engine. Behind him, the girls rushed outside, calling his name, begging him to come back, but the gates were already behind him.**********************The speed limit in Madrid's city streets was fifty kilometers per hour, and on the M-30 it was ninety at most. Hugo blew past both. The needle climbed past a hundred, then a hundred and twenty, as he weaved between cars on the way to Sector 4. Horns blared from every direction. Drivers shouted through their windows. At one junction a traffic warden stepped into the road, waving both arms and blowing his whistle, flagging him down. Hugo didn't even look at him. He was not slowing down for anyone.The ride normally took twenty minutes. He made it in ten.He didn't bother parking properly. He jumped ou
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Chapter: CHAPTER 48 Where Roses learn to biteIt was already almost twelve in the afternoon when Tamsin finally stepped out of the bathroom. She wasn't in any hurry to get ready for the date. Every time she thought about it, spite curled in her chest, so she took her time.She finished her skincare routine slowly, patting each layer into her skin like she had all day. Then she pulled on a flared, short bubble skirt and a pair of rugged knee-high boots with a chunky heel, the kind that made every step sound like a statement. Over it went a white crop top with a bold black “FUCK YOU" and the finger printed right across the front. If Matteo wanted to meet her, he could at least know exactly where he stood.She straightened her hair but kept her bangs, framing her face the way she liked. A few sprays of perfume hit the air around her, and she walked through the mist. Her makeup stayed minimal, just a swipe of lip gloss and a coat of mascara. She slid her shades on, grabbed her bag, and headed downstairs.Teal and Dacio were al
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Chapter: CHAPTER 47 We kiss Ghosts, not peopleBy the time Hugo reached Sector 4, the mansion was quiet. Luckily for him, all the boys were out. Not a single voice echoed through the halls, and not a single door slammed. He rushed straight to his room, shut the door behind him, and stood there breathing hard.The fury inside him was too much to hold. He couldn't help thinking.When he found out that Mario's mother had slapped him and the reason Mario had strangled Valentina, he had gone personally to Valentina's room. He told her that if her father dropped the charges against Mario, he would go out on a date with her. She had readily agreed.Now that same Mario, the one he had done all of that for, was kissing Tamsin. The same Tamsin he had given his necklace to only minutes ago. And she had acted like she loved it. Hugo's jaw tightened. His hands curled into fists until his knuckles turned white. He swung toward the wall of his room, ready to hurt himself just to release the anger burning in his chest. Then he stopped
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Chapter: CHAPTER 46 Silver on the throatThe Dean and the Vice Dean already knew the Iker couple had arrived. With the commotion still running on campus, they had watched the couple's car pull in from the office window, and they had watched Dolores step out of it like a storm in heels.So when the door opened and Dolores and Lessandro walked in, the two of them were waiting. The seats across the desk had been pulled out and kept ready.The fury that had twisted Dolores's face minutes ago, when her palm cracked across Mario's cheek, was gone. In its place was something soft, calm, almost sweet."Dean. Vice Dean," she said, settling into her chair. "What a pleasant surprise. To what do we owe this meeting? How are you both? How is everything? How is the school?"The Vice Dean did not smile. .She had spent the last hour swallowing Mario's replies, each one more insolent than the last, and her patience had burned down to ash."Cut the bullshit, Mrs. Iker," she said. "You know what your son did. And he isn't even sorry about i
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Chapter: CHAPTER 45 Glass swallowed wholeTamsin's last lecture of the day dragged on like it had something against her.The whispers had started the moment she sat down. Insults from the back, from the corner, from everywhere, little knives thrown at the back of her head. She'd stopped flinching a while ago. When the professor finally dismissed them, she shoved her notes into her bag, put her headphones over her ears, and turned the volume up until the world was just bass and static. Let them throw whatever they wanted. She wouldn't hear a word.She stepped out of the hall. Right was where she needed to go. But her eyes betrayed her and slid left.Hugo was leaning against the wall, arms crossed, shoulders slouched like he'd been holding it up for hours.“Not my concern.”She said it to herself twice, but the second time it sounded like a lie. She turned right walking down the hall.Chin up, music pounding loudly.A shadow swallowed hers.A hand reaching over her head, and her headphones were gone. The world rushed bac
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Chapter: CHAPTER 44 Bruises have no AlibiThe car rolled up to the gates of IE, and Tamsin's foot eased off the pedal.The campus was oddly quiet. Too quiet.Something was wrong.She drove through and guided her car into the parking lot, then sat for a second with her hands still on the wheel. Her heart was beating a little too fast. *It's probably nothing.” she told herself. But she didn't believe it.She stepped out and looked around. Only a few students were outside, scattered across the courtyard. Normally the place would be buzzing at this hour.She had braced herself for this morning all night. The video might have been taken down, but she knew exactly what waited for her.The stares.The whispers.The laughter. They would jeer at her. They would call her a slut, a whore, a stepbrother kisser, and every other cruel name they could think of.But no one said a word.No one even looked at her.Tamsin frowned. Dacio had taken the video down, yes, but that didn't explain this. The students of IE didn't care if it wa
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