Chapter 44

Mathew’s eyes widened in astonishment, and he shook his head.

“Okay, you’ve seriously lost me,” he continued to shake his head as he gazed down at me. “You’re going to have to start from the beginning.”

And so I told him about everything that had happened before he’d found me on the road outside of the Academy. I told him about the students that had died and their unmarked graves. I told him how Booth had revealed the entire thing to me and how Celestria had attacked me (twice!) and how I’d died, and the Goddess had brought me back to stop her. But how the hell was I supposed to do that if Celestria had turned the entire school against me?

“So Zoe and Merrin have walked right back into a shitstorm?” Mathew asked. His expression growing gravely concerned.

“I’m so sorry, Mathew. This is all my fault.” I sobbed, and I was surprised when he hugged me all over again.