Ashes and Bloodlines のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 71 - チャプター 80

Julianne heard a scream echo off and she turned. Both Ryker and Kaidan who were accompanying her turned too and they looked at each other. Julianne knew what Cassian was capable of doing. She knows that he doesn’t like it when someone tries to hurt his friends, or even someone close to him. And she was that person. Still, she trusts that he wouldn’t send them early to their graves. Just some broken bones and few days in the infirmary would do.“Let’s go,” Ryker said to her and they continued to the dorm. When they got to the entrance, she turned to them and said, “I can go from here. Thank you,” she said and then looked at Ryker. She had always wanted to have a conversation with him, but he always comes off as unapproachable ever since he said those words to her. But tonight changed the way she saw him totally. Seeing him take her side and how he seems to listen to Cassian tells her that there must be something going on between them which she doesn’t know. “We’ll watch you go in be

Cassian marched to the headmistress office with a deep frown etched on his forehead. The students that saw him all moved to the other side, getting out of his way. After the incident that happened, everyone has been lying low and taking themselves in groups to whisper at a corner that is away from watching eyes. Everyone already knew Marianne was dead and some people pointed out that it was Julianne’s doing, since she was found in her room. But no one dares talk about it openly, knowing that she has the three popular boys with her.Headmistress Eldryn was busy talking with the teachers to provide a solution to the uprising when Cassian suddenly barged in without knocking. They all shifted their gaze to him and frowned at his action. One of the teachers who saw it as a sign of disrespect scolded him, “How dare you barge into the headmistress office like that? Get out and reflect on your actions right now!”But Cassian’s eyes was only fixed on the headmistress who sat at the very fron

Maximus guarded Marianne’s body to prevent the teachers from acting out. It appears as if he had been waiting for Julianne to say those words. He also didn’t want them to take her body away because he just couldn’t trust the couple for some reason.“That’s ridiculous. Why can’t I take my daughter away?”“She has never been your daughter,” Julianne told him and stood. She moved her eyes to the woman who turned her face away.“What? At least I am her relative. You are not even anywhere close to that. I took her in as my daughter after her father abandoned her and I paid everything for her,” the man argued. “Then, does that qualify you as her father?” she asked and shifted her gaze to his wife. “Will you say you don’t know about it too? Or have you just been looking away all this time?”“What are you talking about?” Remus asked her.Julianne sniffed again and said with her eyes fixed on the couple, “Marianne once told me that her uncle would always assault her sexually while she was liv

“Who do we think is the culprit?” Remus asked. He was sitting on a small wooden box at the center of the room. Cassian sat by the desk, tapping his fingers on the table. His expression has been grim ever since he walked in. He stopped tapping and said, “I believe we all have the same person in mind.”Maximus nodded in agreement and Julianne held her hands together. She just couldn’t believe that headmistress Eldryn would kill Marianne just to get to her.“But we need evidence against her to prove she did it,” said Cassian.“And Lucien is gone,” Maximus inserted.They all looked at Julianne, and when she realized they were waiting on her to say something, she readjusted herself and held her hands together.“Why do we think it is headmistress Eldryn?” she asked openly.Everyone seemed like they have something to say, but no one uttered a word.“The day I came back with Cassian and went to the dorm,” she started, “Marianne left me a letter. She mentioned a gift and said we had things to

Every student was busy with their mid-semester tests. Julianne didn’t study hard like everyone did, but she answered the questions easily without thinking too much into it. Whenever she finished a test, she would look over at the empty desk at the front. It was where Marianne used to sit.Ryker became concerned every time he saw Julianne sitting still and not interacting with anyone. Just three weeks before that, they were in the cafeteria with the others, talking about Velvet and planning their next step. Then all of a sudden, she became completely silent and zoned out.Once he saw her take her bag to leave, he followed her and stopped when he saw her at the front of the library. She stood there for some minutes before leaving, and he followed her again until she stopped at the bleachers where the field is. He watched her from a distance and knew to let her be. He knows she must be feeling Marianne’s absence, but he didn’t expect it to suddenly get worse like this.After taking abou