Carolina
Daniel and I had become like an old married couple. The days were spent at school and in the laboratory. I had been showing him just how important these two aspects of my life were – that I planned to stay for good.
My grades were high, despite Miss Hawke’s efforts to put me down. Little insults here and there, but I was smart enough to have a following at school. Some of my classmates would know if she was playing dirty with my grades. It did not help her that it was public knowledge that she used to be Daniel’s girlfriend – the one who had seduced him out of the monastery. I played the role of savior well, the woman who had made Dr. Arden smile again. They did not know he saved me. I could still be rotting in the forest, gnawed by parasites until I was gone forever. Creature w
