Paige wasn’t exaggerating when she said the room was well-appointed. The attached bathroom is full of toiletries, including makeup samples and perfume, and the armoire is stuffed with pajamas and undergarments. Beneath the window is a collection of antique books lined on shelves. I finally attemp...
It’s a building,” Theo said on the ride home. We were rehashing what Golem and I had spoken about after class. She’d seemed very surprised that he had taken me so seriously. Now she appeared spooked, her knuckles white on the steering wheel, her face just as moon-pale. “I don’t know. Whatever hap...
WARWICK MEAT. ALL SLABS of meat, waiting to hang from the butcher’s hooks. The thoughts raced across Warwick’s fevered mind, his only impression of his fellow teachers and students as he walked down Hawthorne’s hallowed main hall.Warwick passed students—the rotting carcasses, the meat, his though...
Fear urges on my heart and my pulse beats in my ears. "Most people would be scared of having a murderer in their room," he says, taking a cautious step forward. "You told me you were Aaron." "It was the first name I thought of. He's my little brother. I didn't want you to know who I was, at the t...