Chapters (50)
- Cover
- Dedication
- - ONE -
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- - EIGHT -
- - NINE -
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- - ELEVEN -
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- - THIRTEEN -
- - FOURTEEN -
- - FIFTEEN -
- - SIXTEEN -
- - SEVENTEEN -
- - EIGHTEEN -
- - NINETEEN -
- - TWENTY -
- - TWENTY-ONE -
- - TWENTY-TWO -
- - TWENTY-THREE -
- - TWENTY-FOUR -
- - TWENTY-FIVE -
- - TWENTY-SIX -
- - TWENTY-SEVEN -
- - TWENTY-EIGHT -
- - TWENTY-NINE -
- - THIRTY -
- - THIRTY-ONE -
- - THIRTY-TWO -
- - THIRTY-THREE -
- - THIRTY-FOUR -
- - THIRTY-FIVE -
- - THIRTY-SIX -
- - THIRTY-SEVEN -
- - THIRTY-EIGHT -
- - THIRTY-NINE -
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
She rolled her eyes at him. “Give Damian a break. He feels really bad about what happened. And now he’s doing everything he can to make sure we can fight them, if they ever come back.”
Assuming he’s not the one to let them in again. How do you put up with his attitude all the time?
She laughed. “You’d be surprised. Last night, I actually almost got him to talk about where he came from before Dr. Opps brought him to the school. That would have been a major victory.” She clenched her jaw, giving Fort her most serious look. “But no,” she said, mimicking Damian’s voice. “I couldn’t possibly burden you with my secrets. The enemy could pull them from your mind, and then we’d all be lost.”
Fort groaned out loud, forgetting where he was. Colonel Charles turned to give him a questioning look, and Fort coughed to cover it. “Sorry, something caught in my throat at lunch,” he said, turning red as Sierra moved behind Colonel Charles to make faces at the man.
“We’re here, anyway,” the colonel said, and knocked on a random door in a long line of them in a hallway Fort wasn’t sure he could find again with a map. “Gabriel? Can we come in?”
“Gabriel?” Sierra said, raising her eyebrows. “Who’s that?”
Fort shrugged as the door opened, revealing a boy at least a foot taller than Fort, with long dark hair that fell over his face. He was built like a football player, and could probably give the soldiers guarding the school a fight if it came to that. His eyes had dark rings beneath them, as if he hadn’t slept in a while. He saluted when he saw Colonel Charles, and the colonel saluted back. “Yes, sir?” Gabriel said to the colonel.
“Whoa,” Sierra said, moving within inches of Gabriel’s face to give him a closer look. “Look at the size of him!”
“Gabriel Torrence, I’d like to introduce your new roommate,” Colonel Charles said, turning to gesture to Fort. “This is Forsythe Fitzgerald. He’s been at the school before, but only for about a week, so he’ll be joining you first-years in class.”
“He’ll be what?” Sierra said, grinning widely.
“I’ll be what?” Fort said, much less enthused than Sierra.