Death In Her Eyes - Erin Bedford Page 0,46

him. Like being different was a bad thing. If anyone was different it would be me.

Taking a deep breath, I blew it out slowly. "Nothing, really. Someone just got on my nerves. Where were you at?"

"Oh." Ayden's face lit up and then she held her arm up. "We were getting passes for the trip to town this weekend." She showed me the metal gold bracelet around her wrist.

"To town?" My face perked up at the news. "What town? When? Where?"

Ayden giggled. "It's a thirty-minute drive to Newbury. You just have to go get a pass from Azazel."

"What about the angels?" I pointed out not believing for a second that Azazel would let me leave the school on my own if at all. "And the barrier."

"That's what the pass is for." Ayden held her arm up again. "It works as a temporary shield to mask us from the angels and a locator of sorts."

"What do you mean?"

"It tells Azazel or whoever monitors them where you are at all times." She twisted the bracelet around her wrist. "If you get too far away from the approved area it sends out a sort of electrical current as a warning. If you get too far away, the current gets stronger until it knocks you out and someone will come get you to take you back to the school."

"That doesn't sound safe." It sounded more like cruel and unusual punishment to me. Another way for my dad and Azazel to keep control of their students.

Ayden shrugged not too worried about it. "The twins tried to take off with a group of girls at one point and got knocked flat on their asses. Serves them right for trying to ditch us but it also serves as a way to keep us safe."

"I don't see how." I arched a brow at the bracelet. I wasn't sure I wanted one of those on my wrist now.

"Because," Ayden leaned closer to me. "Say that an angel did find one of us and they snatched us up? It would not only knock us out but whoever was touching us too." I stared at the little piece of metal with a renewed interest. That could come in handy. "So, you see, it sucks to be monitored yeah but it’s for our own good."

I hummed but didn't answer her. Ayden and the others seemed to have all drunken the same Kool aid here at the Fallon Academy. Arguing with her to see the light would do nothing but make her mad and isolate me from the only allies I had.

"Well, I'm going to go to lunch." Ayden shifted her book bag from one shoulder to the other. "See you later?"

I inclined my head. "Yeah, I'm going to go see about getting a pass."

"Good idea. I can show you around town!" Her amber eyes brightened considerably. "They have a little diner there that has the best milk shakes. You are going to die. I swear."

I chuckled politely at her enthusiasm. "I'm sure. I'll let you know."

"Great. See ya."

Waving bye, I headed for Azazel's office. I needed to talk to the crazy angel woman anyway about my dad, might as well try and get a pass too. Not that I had high hopes of getting one. If I was still being babysat around the school grounds the likelihood of her letting me actually leave the school was slim to none.

When I arrived at Azazel's office there were raised voices behind her door. I sat on the bench outside of it and waited for the voices to quiet. A moment later the door flung open and Dex stood there.

Nostrils flaring and shoulders tight, he was just as beautiful as the day I met him.

His eyes dropped to me. "What are you doing here?"

I stood and held my bag tightly to my side. "Getting a pass for the weekend."

Dex snorted, placing a hand over his face as he shook his head. "Of course, you are. No sense of self preservation." The words were muttered more to himself than to me, but I responded anyway.

"What was that?" My jaw tightened and I stepped closer to him.

To my surprise and annoyance, he backed up a step.

"Afraid of me now, Dex?" I arched a brow, a hint of laughter in my voice.

"Stop saying my name like that." He grunted, walking away from the door. What could I say I was a masochist. I followed him.

"Like what?"

Dex turned his head to the side. "Like we're friends. Like you know me."

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