Gabriel left.
He claimed he’d be coming back in front of the receptionist, but we both knew that wasn’t true. I’d have to find my own way back to the motel, and Hunter had already told me what to do in any case.
I just had to wait for him where we met for the first time.
It sounded easy enough.
Now, I was alone with the secretary, and we were waiting for the first period to end so that one of the girls could ‘show me around’. I was genuinely shocked by the treatment I was receiving—I was seeing a different side of everyone I encountered.
It was scary and heartbreaking.
But I willed myself to calm down. I couldn’t show excessive nervousness as Betas were usually confident. It was like I was looking at my surroundings with different eyes. This was not the school I remembered.
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