Chapter

Thirty-Six

Hawke

I shoved the doors of the headmistress’ office open with such force they broke off their hinges. I couldn’t believe what I’d just been told. Fury boiled under my skin, barely contained. Everything had been shot to hell with one conversation.

“Hawke, wait!” Callie called, trailing after me and yapping a bloody mile a minute like a damned rabid Chihuahua. “This is a good thing! It’s the right thing. You’ll see.”

“Callie, do yourself a favor and shut the fuck up before I shut you up.”

She pouted, batting her eyelashes at me like it would garner any ounce of sympathy. All it made me want to...