Chapter 14 · Dropped Into Witch Academy at Midnight - Chapter 14: The Defib Picks a Witch

"Talk." I don't move. Don't blink. "Right now, Cassandra. You were there. You brought me here. Start talking or I walk deeper into this thing alone."

Cassandra's face is still that awful shade of white. Like she's the one who died. "Alex, not here. Not now. The maze is—"

"The maze can wait." My wrist still burns where the echo touched me. "You can't."

The vines around us shiver. That laugh again, my own voice, but wrong. It's coming from everywhere now. The maze doesn't want us standing still.

Rena steps between us, her usual smirk gone. "She's right. We're not moving until someone explains what the hell that thing meant."

Vivienne's hand is on my shoulder. Gentle. Always so damn gentle. "Alex, perhaps we should—"

"No." I shake her off. Can't do gentle right now. "Cassandra was in my ER. The night I died. She was there, and now I'm here, and she's been lying about it for weeks."

"I never lied." Cassandra's voice is barely there. "I simply didn't—"

"Bullshit." The word comes out hot. "You let me think I was crazy. Let me think I was chosen by some prophecy, some cosmic accident.