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II don’t often feel regret. In fact, one of the few times I’ve ever felt it is

the night I fucked up with Mara and she left the party with someone else.

knew I had to explain all this to Mara, but I’ve been dreading it.

I didn’t use to regret anything about Shaw.

Now … I wish I had done things differently.

I look out the kitchen window to the bright, sparkling waters of the bay, not

watching the boats drifting past, but instead visualizing the flat green lawns

and low modern buildings of the California Institute of the Arts.

Then I say to Mara, “It was my first year of art school. My mother was dead.

My father was dead. My uncle was dead. I was an orphan, alone in the world.

“It didn’t feel strange to me, because I had always been alone. People

crowded around me, drawn by looks and money, and the charm I could turn

off and on at will. But to me, all those people seemed the same, and not like

myself. I was a wolf in a world that seemed comprised almost entirely of

deer. Especially once Ruben was gone.

“You probably know CalArts is a small school, only a thousand students.

Some of them were hoping for a career in film. Tim Burton was a famous

alumni, as we were reminded practically every fucking day.

“I doubted he was popular when he actually attended. Art school was no

different than anywhere else I had been. People didn’t suddenly become

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