I staggered back in shock.
Leaving?
I had just gotten here. There was no way I could leave now.
“Ethan, what are you talking about?” I asked.
I watched as his eyes scanned my neck, clearly looking for the bruises that were now masked thanks to Ace’s concoction.
A concoction I now realized I had left behind because of Silas’s arrival…great.
“I know you were the one who got into that fight,” he said, his voice low, simmering with rage.
“Ethan…”
“Why didn’t you come to me immediately, Elara?" His voice rose sharply, echoing off the stone walls of the small dorm. “I’m the first person who should have known.”
I gulped hard, my throat working against the lump that had formed there.
He was right, of course he was right, but with everything spiraling so quickly out of control, I had
