Hawthorn Academy

I knew that a scholarship to Hawthorn Academy would change my life.

The scholarship gets me away from a Mother who doesn’t love me, an alcoholic Step-Father I despise, and a life filled with no meaning. At the Academy, I can make something of myself. Become the person I’ve always wanted to be; the person I’m destined to be.

But I never imagined...

The Hawthorn tree.

You can eat the berries.
Taste the juice.
But the seeds are the deadliest part.

And I was going to become the seed.
I was going to be the cyanide that destroyed Ollie and everything he valued.

The Set—what was left of them anyway—were going to pay for what they did to me.
For the torture they put me through.

They drowned me.
Drugged...

The New Year started with a bang.

Literally.

Midnight came,

and now,

life as we know it will never be the same.

The Sanctum are out to harm us.

To harm me.

Nobody is safe.

I’d known that a scholarship to Hawthorn Academy would change my life.

Guess I’d just never realised how much I could lose.