Lahat ng Kabanata ng Sweetest Revenge: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 33

Sleep is a stranger by the time dawn finally smears gray across the sky. I sit on the edge of my bed, elbows on my knees, staring at the last note like it’s some kind of radioactive object.You’re running out of time.My fingers run over the letters again and again until they blur. Every sound outside my door makes me flinch. Every thought circles back to the same, terrifying truth:Someone isn’t just watching me.Someone wants me gone.Someone wants me like Noah.My breath shudders out. I press my palms to my face and inhale slowly, forcing myself to keep it together. If I fall apart now, I lose. If I panic, I lose. If I trust the wrong person—I don’t even want to think about that outcome.The building hums awake: running water, footsteps, slamming doors. Normal sounds. Safe sounds. Almost enough to make me believe last night was nothing but paranoia.Almost.I shove the notes deep into my bag and tie my hair back, my hands trembling only a little. Fake it until you make it. Noah us

Here ream slices through the maze like a knife, freezing my blood in an instant.“Ava!”My name—my real one—echoes across the campus.Jace and I stare at each other for half a second. That’s all it takes.Then we run.Branches whip against my arms as we tear through the hedge maze, slipping out the other side and sprinting across the quad. Students stop and stare, murmuring, confused and alarmed, but I don’t slow down. I don’t breathe. I don’t think.My legs move on instinct—toward danger, not away.“Ava, slow down—” Jace grabs my wrist.“No!” I yank free. “Someone called my name. They know me. They know who I am.”“Ava, we don’t know what we’re walking into—”“That’s exactly why I’m not stopping.”He curses, but runs beside me anyway.The closer we get to the administration building, the louder the noise becomes—not another scream, but frantic voices, footsteps, the sharp sound of someone crying. A crowd has already gathered at the steps.And then I see her.Mira. The friendly outsid