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I jerked my gaze to his. That icy stare was fixed straight ahead as he reached into his pocket and rounded the car.
Click.
I froze at the sound.
“No.” I jerked against his shoulders, fighting him as he grabbed my thighs, yanking me down.“No!”
My hair flew into my face with the fall. But I didn’t land, he caught me under my arms at the last moment and eased me down against soft carpet.
“Can’t trust you, trouble.” He pushed me down and straightened, reaching up to grab the lid of the trunk. “And yet, I can’t seem to let you go.”
“No!”I shoved upwards.“Wait!”
But the trunk lid slammed down with athud.
Blackness swallowed my world once more, only this time I was conscious.
“No!”I drove my heel against the side of his trunk.“Fuck YOU! Fuck you, you goddamn hateful MOTHERFUCKER!”
Thud!
The sound of the door followed.
I could hear him muttering and snarling before the growl of the engine covered the sound.Crunch.Metal groaned, shrieking as we reversed. That sound shouldn’t have brought me so much joy…but it did.
“Good,” I said. “There’s a lot more where that came from…a whole lot more.”
Just enough, though, right?
Just enough fight to make it real.
I jolted as the car came to a stop, then surged forward.
But that smile didn’t last, slowly fading under the roar of the engine.
I didn’t know where he was taking me…more than that, I didn’t know why he cared.
But he did.
Enough not to kill me.
And to kill another just because he looked at me.
The Principal was not the man I’d thought he was…
Which wasterrifying.
SIX
Riven
The black steelgate rolled open as I pulled into the drive of my Darkwood estate. This place was my escape, my reprieve from the madness, and not a place I brought someone home to…not like her, at least. I pulled the now ruined Audi inside the gate and hit the button for the garage door, listening to the silence in the trunk.
Was she asleep?
Dead?
Gone? Was she gone?