Chapter 27

Chapter 27

Belle stops me before I can enter the house. Noah is still in the car, and it looks like she’s

trying for him not to see us. What was this about?

“You may want to hide those marks before you enter the house,” she warns me. Marks? What marks.Her eyes focus on my legs, and I follow her gaze. My cheeks turn red

when I realize what she’s talking about. Adam left his love marks on me earlier while he was

sucking on me.

Oh no. What was I going to do? “Relax,” she tells me as she digs in her purse and pulls out somemakeup. “I’ll cover it up

in no time. Just tell me when Noah is coming.”

Belle finishes just before Noah reaches us, and he looks at us in confusion, “am, is some

girl thing going on here that I don’t want to know about?”

“Yes,” Belle mumbles. “Now, let’s get inside before our parents get worried and grow all hysterical on us.We don’t want any more of that.”

Once safely inside my room, Ilock the door and head to the mirror, I’m not sure that I can even recognizemyself. My eyes were bright, my cheeks flushed, and my lips were swollen. I’ve never looked like thisbefore. How did no one suspect anything? Belle didn’t ask me who gave me the love marks, but shedidn’t exactly get the opportunity either, maybe she was waiting for the right time. Or perhaps she wanted

to give me my privacy. I wasn’t sure, but I preferred that she didn’t ask. I didn’t want to lie to her, I alreadyknew I couldn’t tell her that it was Adam.

Trub my fingers over the spots his lips were on. I grabbed the makeup wipes Belle gave to me and slowlyremoved the makeup, revealing the marks to myself.

I don’t understand how seeing those things and knowing that he left it there manages to double thedesire inside of me. Somehow, I want him even more than before..

His words from earlier keep replaying in my mind. He said that I was a good girl and that I shouldn’tchange that for anyone. Why would someone like Adam say something like that to me? He was theprince of darkness, for crying out loud; seeing me rebel, should have made him happy. Then why did heseem so upset?

Does Adam care for me? Was it more than just lustful desires?

I shake my head; I don’t want to look for anything that wasn’t there. I also didn’t want to

read too much into this. It would drive me crazy, and I didn’t want that.

I needed to move on from tonight no matter how badly my body and mind wanted to hold on to everysingle detail.

rest of my life. A part of me, a big part, tells me that Adam is the man for me, the only man. Just thethought of that scares me, I didn’t know how to control myself around him, and I don’t think that wouldever change.

I can’t keep doing this to myself; I needed to be strong. I couldn’t let Adam get to me until

knew that I could trust him.

It was the next day of school, and I ensured that the skirt I wore today was long enough to

hide the marks Adam left on my body. I couldn’t risk anyone seeing that.

Belle kept giving me these worrisome looks, but still, she didn’t ask me any questions. I

knew that Noah had an idea about Adam and me, but I wasn’t sure that my sister knew

anything other than what my parents mentioned in the car.

Abigail meets me by my locker, and she has this huge smile on her face, “somebody looks like they gotsome action last night.” she teases.

I didn’t tell Abigail anything about this; how does she know?

“I saw Adam lift you out of the party last night.” She informs me. “I was about to come and save you, but Iknew that you probably wanted some alone time with him,” she says, wiggling her eyebrows at me.

Ishake my head at her as I try to hide my blush. “I’m right, aren’t l?” she demands in a high-pitched voice.

I nodded and looked around me to make sure that no one was listening in on our

conversation. “Adam kissed me inside his jeep last night.”

Abigail does a girlish squeal from excitement, and I shoot her a warning look. I didn’t want to bring anyattention to us.

“Let’s get to class.”

She hooks her arm through mine and strolls with me to our classroom. “You need to tell me all about itthe moment we get some time alone.”

I chuckle, “just try and stop me.”

All eyes were on me when I entered the classroom; I almost forgot that I was now my people’s flamingwhisperer. Things weren’t the same as before; there were people actually

trying to become my friend now.

Sir Williams offers me a seat at the front of the class along with Abigail, and it’s not

could track your every move. This also meant that Abigail and I wouldn’t get to talk more about

Adam.

Where was he? He wasn’t in here, and as the class progressed, he still didn’t show up, not even late likehe usually does.

“Since we now know who our flaming whisperer is, I think that it’s important for us to train her.” Sirannounces suddenly. “Amiera, we need to awaken the fire within you. I’m not sure why it hasn’t surfacedyet since you’re supposed to be the strongest of your kind, but we need to

start somewhere. Please come here and stand next to me.”

I’m extremely nervous as I step closer to him, and unfortunately, face the rest of the class. I can feel thepressure as they all look on to see what I can do now that it was revealed whol

was.

“Try to create fire, “Sir Williams commands.

I close my eyes with the palm of my hand facing the ceiling and try to bring forth the flames. Twoseconds passed, then another and another, but just like always, no matter how hard I tried, nothinghappened.

“How is it possible that the flaming whisperer has no idea how to create fire?” Carol asks, “she seemsmore like a fake than anything else to me.”

Of course, I still didn’t earn the respect of everyone around me, even though I was now supposedly thesavior of my people. There were still persons that would look for any opportunity to bring me down. Butcould I blame them? How could the flaming whisperer not be able to create fire? What was it that I wasmissing? What was I doing so wrong?

There are more whispers, and Sir Williams tries to reassure me that it’s okay. The whispers stop whenthe classroom door slams shut. I look up and spot Adam; he isn’t looking

at me; instead, he’s glaring at the rest of the class.

He finally turns towards me, our gazes lock, and his jaw tightens. He walks forward and doesn’t stop untilhe’s a few inches away from me.

“I’ll train Amiera from today.”

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