Todos los capítulos de CHASED BY FOUR MATES AT WOLFORD ACADEMY: Capítulo 31 - Capítulo 40

ELVIRAI lied to my best friends before breakfast, and I felt bad about it."A history project," I told Daphne and Lexa, while she was stirring tea I had no intention of drinking with her. "On the founding families, their crests and their symbols. I need old records, and Mrs. Pruitt hates me.""Mrs. Pruitt hates everyone," Daphne said, already pushing back her chair. "It's her best quality to hate students.""Does this project have anything to do with why you've jumped at every footstep for two days?" Lexa asked mildly.My stomach dropped immediately when I heard those words from her. "No."She studied me over her glasses for one beat too long, then shrugged. "Fine. But if this turns out to be about those boys, I want a full report on it."I almost told them everything right there. The words crowded behind my teeth, but the text on my phone still said Careful who you tell, and someone inside this school had sent it, and I could not make myself gamble with the two people I loved most i

ELIANO"Father, what are you doing here?"My voice came out almost immediately.He did not answer me right away. He just stepped into my room instead and shut the door behind him gently."I made three calls to you," he said. "You couldn't pick up even one of them.""I've been busy, daddy.""Yeah, I can see that."I had spent my whole life preparing for my father's anger in a day like this. I knew the shape of his anger; his raised voice, his cutting remark, the way it burned hot and then burned out. This anger was about something else. He stood with his hands folded in front of him; his face was unreadable, and I would have given anything for him to shout at me."Corvin," he said. "I heard you call that name twice while you were on call.""That's the name of your brother, who used to teach me how to throw knives years ago.""That is the name of a man who is not discussed in this family." He said it mildly. "You have always known this. You have known it since you were ten.""Maybe it s

ELVIRAFor a moment, those words would not settle properly in me. Susan was the girl who had cornered me outside Alchemy with a tight smile, and she had a sharp tongue."Gone how?" Eliano's voice came out in a low tone behind me."Her roommate saw me in the corridor. She was crying." Gideon dragged a hand through his hair. "She knew my face from the dining hall fight. She hasn't told any staff. She's terrified of getting Susan into more trouble.""Then we don't tell any of the staff either," I said. Everyone looked at me. "Sir Albert lied to my face. And someone inside this school sent me a message the second I knew the truth. I don't know who's listening to us anymore."Gideon's jaw tightened. "Then we have to find her ourselves."I thought of every cruel thing Susan had ever said to me and found that none of it mattered right now. All I felt was fear inside of me, with all that is happening inside Wolford Academy right now.Xavier followed us without a word when he saw us at the sta

ELVIRANobody moved. The stream behind us kept murmuring as though something in the clearing was wrong.Then Xavier moved to the edge of the old mud and went to work. "Spread out, but stay in sight of each other." He called Susan's name so softly it barely reached me, then he covered the ground inch by inch. I watched his face become serious. "It's too torn up," he said at last. "I can't tell which way she went. There's no blood trail, at least."I held onto his last words with both hands, the way you hold on to hope.Rafael circled the clearing's edge, while he was looking out in the dark. Gideon stayed close, as though he needed proof I was still beside him. Eliano stood frozen over the trainer. "There's an old service track along the far side," he said, his voice rough. "The groundskeepers used it years ago. Nobody does now."Gideon stayed at my shoulder while I felt my way through what was left of the hut, because none of us had a touch of light. I could feel overturned shelves, s

ELVIRAThe notice went up before breakfast.It was printed on cream card and pinned to the dining hall board, and it was three lines long. A student had suffered a fall during an unsupervised outing. She was resting in the school clinic, and the school requested that students be careful and make sure they go into the woods in pairs.Nobody asked why the five of us had been in the forest at that time of the night. The school authority didn’t check or inspect the old hut. And there was no alert put out for werewolf hunters in the woods; there was nothing at all. The school authority just swept everything under the carpet, and by lunch the rumors and noise over Susan’s incident had died down.Eliano went to the infirmary wing and came back with news that wasn’t pleasing at all. "They’re not allowing Susan to receive visitors," he said. "That's all they'd said to me. They didn’t even tell me whether she's awake or not."The school authorities didn’t even ask one question from the five of u