Callie Hart

They might be richer than gods, but they're morally bankrupt.As far as the boys who run America's most exclusive international academy are concerned, I'm an unwelcome interloper, an inconvenience, and they're determined to make my life a living hell.When Wren Jacobi sets eyes on Wolf Hall Academy's newest inductee, all he sees is an easy mark. A reserved little girl with a target painted on her back. He knows nothing of my troubled past, though. Nothing of my mother's suspicious death, or the horrific treatment I've had to endure at the hands of my psychotic father.And he has no idea of the lengths that I, unassuming little Elodie Stillwater, will go to in order to break the savage beast who dreams of breaking me first.There's a wolf stalking the forests that surround my new school.Little does he know...There are far scarier predators lurking out there in the dark.

Riot House

Lulu Evensen

Go on. Cry some more. You know it only makes me harder."

It's exhausting, having to plot and plan absolutely everything you ever do, but it also means I have very few regrets. How can I regret something if I've weighed all of the consequences and deemed them acceptable before taking action?

It's amazing how easily I lie to her. I don't like doing it,

She knows exactly who she is and what she stands for, and I want to breathe her like she's life its very self.

It's thrilling, this exchange, to know that the things she's asking me here and now represent moments in the past when she sat alone in her thoughts and wondered things about me.

"Dashiell likes to break his toys when they become too important to him."

You're better than this. Better than him. You don't damn well need him.

The pep talk's a good one. I repeat it in my head as try to tip-toe down the hallway. It's on a playback, cycling over and over again as I sneak my way down the stairs.

this is not the kind of person I want to be some stupid girl wandering off on her own in the dark, all bent out of shape because of some boy who can't seem to make up his mind about her. I have more common sense than that. More self respect.

Name five things you can see. Come on. Five things you can see. You can do this. Just calm the fuck down

Occasionally, reality and the way she wanted things to be sometimes got a little blurred around the edges.

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