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chapter thirty four
The ticking of the wall clock felt louder than ever as I struggled to button up my shirt with trembling fingers. My mind wasn’t here. It was already racing down the road with Celeste’s car. Her reaction earlier had been cold—but not cold enough to be indifferent. That single look of hurt, masked beneath her shades, haunted me more than I wanted to admit.She cared. And that made it worse.Blair was still downstairs. Probably snooping through my kitchen or criticizing the furniture. I regretted everything now—every smug smirk, every whispered word that convinced her to play pretend in my plan to ruin Amelia. It felt so juvenile. So… shortsighted.Now, Celeste might think I was playing her too.I glanced at my phone. Still no reply. Four missed calls. One unread message. But not from Celeste.It was from Jordan.> Enjoying the show? Because this is just the trailer. You shouldn’t have come back, Eli.My grip tightened around the phone until my knuckles turned white. Jordan always knew
chapter thirty three
" What the hell are you doing here?" the word flew out of my mouth before I could take it back. " Do I need to tell my boyfriend before I come to his house?" Blair said walking closer to me and before I could shake off her presence, she planted a kiss on my lips. I twitched, not that I didn't enjoy it but for the fact that Celeste was there to witness it. I don't know her plan for the day but I knew she had told me earlier that she was going to have me introduced to my new organisation. " What's going on here?" Celeste asked, putting back her shades. Obviously, she had seen what she wanted to see. " I am so sorry about this, Celeste." I was about to do the introduction when her words stopped me abruptly. " I understand, Eli. You don't need to. We have a lot of appointments to meet up with today and also I need to introduce you to the company and you might need to get ready to meet some of your people." I watched as she walked back to her car. " Get ready. I am coming to pick you
chapter thirty two
For the first time it felt nice. Not having to bow to anyone. Not being scared of people talking down at you or you having to bow to your fellow mate. Power is power. Whether you are rich or you have something within you that commands or influences your peer group. I could see the way they looked at me and how they all wanted to be my friends. I knew now that I was no longer Eli the 'rat boy.' I was something more. I could barely sleep; my phone kept buzzing, and I couldn't help but see my picture plastered on the wall of the school blog. The way I humiliated Jordan. The fear I had instilled into him. I knew he was going to come back at me with full force, but first, I needed to make his father bow at my feet. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but I was not going to stay down anymore. I am going to rise up and show all of them I was not some scared little boy again. Amelia is going to wish she had never toyed with me, and of course Blair is going to keep loving me and a
chapter thirty one
Do you ever feel frightened at what you can do? At first, it was scary. It was almost like the death of Alexia unlocked everything within me but at the same time, I was grateful that it did. ****************************************************************** Degrees of pure blue flame, crackling and eating away at the fabric—but it didn’t burn me. The fire licked up my sleeves, dancing across my chest like a living thing, yet I felt no pain. “Celeste!” I shouted, staggering back. She raised a brow, her lips curving slightly. “Good. You didn’t flinch this time.” “What the hell was that?” I growled. My heart was racing now, my mind torn between panic and awe. “You lit me on fire!” “I activated your energy,” she said, stepping into the room. “Cosmos energy isn’t just summoned by pain, Eli. It’s triggered by intensity. Passion. Rage. Desire. Even fear.” I was still trying to pat out the flames, only to realize they’d vanished the moment she stepped forward. “You could’ve warned
chapter thirty
Have you ever felt different? Felt the weight of the world on your shoulders? But mine was not. It was the weight of the family name that I carried even though I didn't want to. Alexia has tried to protect me, but the fact still remains that I was not just anybody. I was a Turner. The blood runs deep in my veins, and I just found out the most shocking thing of all. Magic. How come? I looked at my hands again and remembered what Celeste had told me. How is this even possible? I walked towards the couch and sat down, trying to reminisce on what she had told me earlier. The kiss? Yes. That all flashed into my memory again. I enjoyed it even if it was for a brief moment. That was my first kiss, and I must say, it was the best. My mind went back to Jordan, who was my sole enemy. But with the look of things, he wasn't anymore. Family. Family was supposed to be your sanctuary, where you run to when you are being pursued, but mine… I got up and shook my
chapter twenty nine
Celeste didn’t blink. Her lips parted slightly as she studied me, like she was weighing my words, measuring the fire in my voice. Then she smiled—a slow, dangerous smile that didn’t quite reach her eyes.“That’s more like it,” she whispered.The wind blows gently. It carried the smell of wet leaves and Celeste's fragrance. The pendant on my neck pulsed like it had a heartbeat of its own.“You have no idea what that name means,” she added, her tone turning grave. “But you will. You will, Eli Turner.”I stared out at the horizon. I still don't understand what she meant by everything she was saying, but I believe I was going to understand all of it with time. “So where do we begin?” I let out a stare at her face. She crouched down and traced something on the ground with her finger. At first it looked like gibberish—lines and circles, symbols I didn’t recognize—but then it all began to make sense, like I had seen the symbols somewhere. It all looked like it had been etched into my mem
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