Kings of Anarchy (Brutal Boys of Everlake Prep #3) - Caroline Peckham Page 0,63

did this?" Monroe snarled, his anger clear.

"I don’t know, but I'll find them and murder them for this," Blake growled as we started swimming back to the common house. My blood was chilled by the time we got out of the lake and not because of the cold. But because one of my Night Keepers had been targeted and I wouldn't rest until I found out who was responsible.

First a Stalker and now this? Why did it feel like the whole world was out to get us sometimes? And why did I feel like this had barely even begun?

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Mila:

Girl, what the shit did those guys say to Danny? I mean, fuuuuuuck. I swear I just came fourteen times. Four. Teen. Times. Screw checking my insta feed ever again, I didn't even realise sex could be this good. I have been wasting my life up until this very moment.

P.S. If you see me being pushed around in a wheelchair today, you know why.

I laughed as I continued eating breakfast and the guys gave me inquisitive looks from across the table. Monroe had started joining us every morning and I liked that a lot. I found myself looking for him while I was making the food each day, glancing at the front door continuously. And when he appeared, I swear my stomach dipped like I was on a roller coaster. Every damn time.

"Mila is pleased," I said in explanation.

"Don't play it down, baby, she's fucking destroyed isn't she?" Kyan smirked and I laughed in answer.

I looked back at my phone just as a news report showed up at the top of the screen. My gut lurched at the sight of the headline and every muscle in my body tensed.

Donovan Rivers found dead after committing suicide.

My pulse thrashed against my eardrums as I clicked on the link, reading the article and feeling sicker and sicker by the second. Rage and pain clawed at the inside of my head as I took in the words that marked the man who’d raised me as irrefutably guilty of leaking the Hades Virus. A man who'd taken his life because he couldn’t cope with the weight of the guilt of what he'd done. No.

"No!" I shouted, standing so fast that I knocked my chair to the floor.

"What's wrong?" Blake asked in alarm and I pointed an accusing finger at Kyan, tossing my phone at him so he could see the article.

It slapped into his broad chest and his eyes flashed over it as it landed on the table before he sighed heavily.

"What did you expect them to do?" Kyan growled. "They had to cover it somehow."

"Suicide?" I practically screamed. "The whole world will see this as an admission of his guilt!"

"Hey, I said you'd get a grave, I didn’t promise anything more than that," he snarled, getting to his feet too.

I swiped up the knife from beside his plate, pointing it at him. "You could have told them to make it look like an accident."

"And who would believe that?" he snarled. "He was shot in the head."

I cringed at his words as that image flashed through my mind again. "I don't know, I don't care. But this, this is the worst way they ever could have covered it." I lifted the knife higher, my rage spewing into every inch of my flesh.

"If you're gonna stab me for it then get it fucking over with, baby," Kyan growled, planting his hands down on the table and baring his throat to me. "I won't apologise for protecting you. This is the only way they could cover up his death that made any sense at all. It's better than his body being destroyed in acid, don’t you agree?"

I winced away from his words, the knife clattering to the table as I dropped it, turning my back on him as tears stung my eyes. I tried to blink them back, but they wouldn't stop and they soon washed down my cheeks and made my whole body shudder with them. I leaned down, resting my hands on my knees as I dragged in air, trying to shut off this pain. But it was like a switch had been flipped and I could no longer hold it together. It hurt too much. It bit into my skin and cut so deep it was impossible to think of anything but my dad lying dead on the ground beneath me. No no no.

Strong arms wrapped around me and I fought against them as Kyan's scent