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Chapter Thirty-Two
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The Darkest Devotion Chapter Thirty-Two
LEONI wake up with an unfamiliar feeling in my chest. It’s a strange lightness, and I refuse to admit that it’s a pleasant feeling. I force myself through my routine, splashing cold water on my face and aggressively shutting down any lingering thoughts of last night. The way she cried. The way she pressed her lips to my cheek. The truce. Things are obviously going to be different between us now, and I have no idea how I’m supposed to navigate it.I head down to the car to wait for her, drumming my fingers against the steering wheel. When she finally steps out of the building, my breath catches. I expect her to pull open the back door like she’s done every single day for the past two months. Instead, the passenger door clicks open and she slides into the front seat right beside me.Her fragrance, something sweet and floral, instantly floods the tight space of the car, wrapping around my senses. She buckles her seatbelt, her bright pastel sweater practically glowing against the dark le
The Darkest Devotion Chapter Thirty-One
GABRIELLA The floor is cold against my palms and I stay there for a moment, just breathing, letting the shock of the fall settle before I try to take stock of the damage. My right leg is throbbing. My toes feel like they are about to fall off. The music is still playing in the studio, the same song I’ve been playing over and over for the past hour while torturing myself with the spin I’m trying to perfect. I reach up to kill the music on my phone but my arm is shaking too much to do it smoothly.But I barely register all of this, not when the studio doors slam open and Leon marches across the room in a few strides. He crouches down before me and silences the music from my phone on the floor across from me. I look up at him and the words come out before I can even think about it.“Get out.”He ignores me.“The studio is off limits for you,” I continue, my voice carrying less authority than I’d like, mostly because I’m still on the floor trying to remember how to breathe. “This is my s
The Darkest Devotion Chapter Thirty
LEONBy the time dawn breaks through the sky, I’m already up. It was pointless forcing myself to sleep after the nightmare, so I spent the remaining hours of the early morning staring blankly at the ceiling. At the first streak of light, I got up, freshened up and stepped out of the room.The apartment is quiet as I head over to the kitchen to make breakfast. Gabriella never has anything solid for breakfast. She usually takes a single fruit or a few spoonfuls of yogurt before rushing out of the apartment.Today, I decide to make a proper breakfast, one that consists of eggs, toast and sliced tomato. She probably won’t eat it, yet I make it anyway, mostly because I'm genuinely tired of eating whatever Gabriella manages to mix up in this kitchen. Her cooking has gotten slightly better, but still has a long way to go. And importantly, I’ll be handling everything in the kitchen from now on, moving forward to prevent another drugging incident from happening. I’m mad at her. I hate her.
The Darkest Devotion Chapter Twenty-Nine
LEONI lie on my back, staring at the ceiling, and sleep refuses to come anywhere near me.It's been two hours since I closed myself off in this room, and in those two hours I haven't stopped seeing her face. The image in my head is not the angry version of her, the one that was screaming at me in the parking lot and demanding answers I was too angry to give. The image in my head is the face that came after, the one that stared back at me as everything I tried to bottle up inside me cracked open and a single tear slid down her cheek before she could stop it.I close my eyes, and the image is still there. I shouldn't have said it. Any of it. I knew the words were going to break her the moment they left my mouth, and I said them anyway, because some part of me wanted them to break her. I wanted to hurt her the way the last few days had hurt me, the helplessness of standing in that room watching her sleep off a drug some boy gave her, the fear that still hasn't fully left my body even
The Darkest Devotion Chapter Twenty-Eight
GABRIELLAI make it three steps outside her office before the tears come.I hold them as long as I can, blinking hard against the burn behind my eyes, and by the time I round the corner into the main hallway, I've lost most of the battle. Nicole and Lisa are waiting by the lockers, and the second they see my face, whatever they were talking about stops."What happened?" Lisa asks, already reaching for me."I was stupid." “Gabby…” Lisa wraps an arm around me. “What went on in there?”My voice comes out wobbly. "I explained my situation to her and asked if she could take me as a private student,” I sniff. Saying it out loud makes me sound even stupider. “But she said I'm not someone she can work with right now. Or maybe ever."Lisa's face falls into something sympathetic, but before she can say anything, Nicole laughs.It's not a kind laugh. It's short and sharp."You thought she'd take you?" She asks like the whole idea is genuinely funny to her. "Gabriella, she trains the best dancer
The Darkest Devotion Chapter Twenty-Seven
GABRIELLABy Monday morning, the apartment walls feel like they are closing in on me.The feeling has been building since Saturday morning. The unease and silence from Leon, Nicole and Jack.The tension between Leon and I has taken on a physical quality. It feels like a third presence moving through the rooms with us. He hasn’t stopped cooking for me, and that presence sits at the table between our plates, filling the hallway when we pass each other without speaking, and occupies the space between us as we remain at opposite ends of the apartment, avoiding each other. So this morning, I get dressed faster than I ever have and head to the parking lot before he can enter the kitchen to make breakfast. When he sees me leaving, he follows silently behind me.The car drive is more torturous than any other drive I’ve ever been on. I practically jump out of the car as we arrive at the school parking lot and rush to my first class of the day.Nicole is already at our usual spot when I get to
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GABRIELLAThe glass in my hand suddenly feels too small and fragile from how tight I’m holding it. I become painfully aware of what I’m wearing, just a pair of thin silk shorts and a matching camisole that does absolutely nothing to cover me. My skin prickles under the weight of realization. It’s n
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GABRIELLAMy heart does a flip in my chest. Jack freezes. His lips hover close to mine, but his eyes flick past my shoulder to stare at Leon, and I see the way his confident playboy persona shrinks under Leon’s gaze. He doesn’t wait for Leon to repeat himself. One look at Leon’s intimidating, quite
The Darkest Devotion Chapter Thirteen
GABRIELLAThe man Leon was just talking to strolls off with his hands in his pockets. I didn’t catch a proper look of his face, but his height and gait are very similar to Leon’s. They’re even dressed alike, both in all-black attire.Who is he?For some reason, it never crossed my mind that Leon has
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GABRIELLAThe corridor outside his office is quiet, too quiet for a Monday afternoon. Most of the other lecturers have already closed their doors, and the hum of student chatter has thinned to a few scattered voices. My flats click against the tiled floor, the soles sounding louder to my ears as I
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