Sixty-three
Penelope Peters
Stepping onto campus felt strange. It had been so long since I had seen Hollow Hills Academy. With everything that had happened with Orion Spires, and The Guillotine, I didn’t think that I would ever be back. But I’d made it for my second year. It was strange though, being in a school uniform wearing an emerald engagement ring that might have cost more than the school put together.
I was only seventeen. Seventeen-year-old girls weren’t supposed to be engaged. But if I wanted to see Cadoc again, to save him from whatever horrors were happening, I had to follow through. I thought of the previous night, in bed with Harkin Redford wrapped around my arms. I remembered how he’d kissed me in the dark.
When I got to my room, I was surprised to find it empty. I ex
