Chapter 27


    Chapter 27


    Belle stops me before I can enter the house. Noah is still in the car, and it looks like she’s


    trying for him not to see us. What was this about?


    “You may want to hide those marks before you enter the house,” she warns me. Marks? What marks.


    Her eyes focus on my legs, and I follow her gaze. My cheeks turn red


    when I realize what she’s talking about. Adam left his love marks on me earlier while he was


    sucking on me.


    Oh no. What was I going to do? “Rx,” she tells me as she digs in her purse and pulls out some


    makeup. “I’ll cover it up


    in no time. Just tell me when Noah ising.”


    Belle finishes just before Noah reaches us, and he looks at us in confusion, “am, is some


    girl thing going on here that I don’t want to know about?”


    “Yes,” Belle mumbles. “Now, let’s get inside before our parents get worried and grow all hysterical on us.


    We don’t want any more of that.”


    Once safely inside my room, Ilock the door and head to the mirror, I’m not sure that I can even recognize


    myself. My eyes were bright, my cheeks flushed, and my lips were swollen. I’ve never looked like this


    before. How did no one suspect anything? Belle didn’t ask me who gave me the love marks, but she


    didn’t exactly get the opportunity either, maybe she was waiting for the right time. Or perhaps she wanted


    to give me my privacy. I wasn’t sure, but I preferred that she didn’t ask. I didn’t want to lie to her, I already


    knew I couldn’t tell her that it was Adam.


    Trub my fingers over the spots his lips were on. I grabbed the makeup wipes Belle gave to me and slowly


    removed the makeup, revealing the marks to myself.


    I don’t understand how seeing those things and knowing that he left it there manages to double the


    desire inside of me. Somehow, I want him even more than before..


    His words from earlier keep reying in my mind. He said that I was a good girl and that I shouldn’t


    change that for anyone. Why would someone like Adam say something like that to me? He was the


    prince of darkness, for crying out loud; seeing me rebel, should have made him happy. Then why did he


    seem so upset?


    Does Adam care for me? Was it more than just lustful desires?


    I shake my head; I don’t want to look for anything that wasn’t there. I also didn’t want to


    read too much into this. It would drive me crazy, and I didn’t want that.


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    I needed to move on from tonight no matter how badly my body and mind wanted to hold on to every


    single detail.


    rest of my life. A part of me, a big part, tells me that Adam is the man for me, the only man. Just the


    thought of that scares me, I didn’t know how to control myself around him, and I don’t think that would


    ever change.


    I can’t keep doing this to myself; I needed to be strong. I couldn’t let Adam get to me until


    knew that I could trust him.


    It was the next day of school, and I ensured that the skirt I wore today was long enough to


    hide the marks Adam left on my body. I couldn’t risk anyone seeing that.


    Belle kept giving me these worrisome looks, but still, she didn’t ask me any questions. I


    knew that Noah had an idea about Adam and me, but I wasn’t sure that my sister knew


    anything other than what my parents mentioned in the car.


    Abigail meets me by my locker, and she has this huge smile on her face, “somebody looks like they got


    some actionst night.” she teases.


    I didn’t tell Abigail anything about this; how does she know?


    “I saw Adam lift you out of the partyst night.” She informs me. “I was about toe and save you, but I


    knew that you probably wanted some alone time with him,” she says, wiggling her eyebrows at me.


    Ishake my head at her as I try to hide my blush. “I’m right, aren’t l?” she demands in a high-pitched voice.


    I nodded and looked around me to make sure that no one was listening in on our


    conversation. “Adam kissed me inside his jeepst night.”


    Abigail does a girlish squeal from excitement, and I shoot her a warning look. I didn’t want to bring any


    attention to us.


    “Let’s get to ss.”


    She hooks her arm through mine and strolls with me to our ssroom. “You need to tell me all about it


    the moment we get some time alone.”


    I chuckle, “just try and stop me.”


    All eyes were on me when I entered the ssroom; I almost forgot that I was now my people’s ming


    whisperer. Things weren’t the same as before; there were people actually


    trying to be my friend now.


    Sir Williams offers me a seat at the front of the ss along with Abigail, and it’s not


    could track your every move. This also meant that Abigail and I wouldn’t get to talk more about


    Adam.


    Where was he? He wasn’t in here, and as the ss progressed, he still didn’t show up, not evente like


    he usually does.


    “Since we now know who our ming whisperer is, I think that it’s important for us to train her.” Sir


    announces suddenly. “Amiera, we need to awaken the fire within you. I’m not sure why it hasn’t surfaced


    yet since you’re supposed to be the strongest of your kind, but we need to


    start somewhere. Pleasee here and stand next to me.”


    I’m extremely nervous as I step closer to him, and unfortunately, face the rest of the ss. I can feel the


    pressure as they all look on to see what I can do now that it was revealed whol


    was.


    “Try to create fire, “Sir Williamsmands.


    I close my eyes with the palm of my hand facing the ceiling and try to bring forth the mes. Two


    seconds passed, then another and another, but just like always, no matter how hard I tried, nothing


    happened.


    “How is it possible that the ming whisperer has no idea how to create fire?” Carol asks, “she seems


    more like a fake than anything else to me.”


    Of course, I still didn’t earn the respect of everyone around me, even though I was now supposedly the


    savior of my people. There were still persons that would look for any opportunity to bring me down. But


    could I me them? How could the ming whisperer not be able to create fire? What was it that I was


    missing? What was I doing so wrong?


    There are more whispers, and Sir Williams tries to reassure me that it’s okay. The whispers stop when


    the ssroom door ms shut. I look up and spot Adam; he isn’t looking


    at me; instead, he’s ring at the rest of the ss.


    He finally turns towards me, our gazes lock, and his jaw tightens. He walks forward and doesn’t stop until


    he’s a few inches away from me.


    “I’ll train Amiera from today.”


    W-what?