Serving Quality Education
Serving Quality Education
Chapter 5 Every step toward the line of trees was too swift, too light, too soon carrying me to whatever torment and misery awaited. I didn’t dare look back at the cottage. We entered the line of trees. Darkness beckoned…
Chapter 4 I didn’t know how the wooden hilt of my hunting knife had gotten into my hand. The first few moments were a blur of the snarling of a gigantic beast with golden fur, the shrieking of my sisters,…
Chapter 3 The trampled snow coating the road into our village was speckled with brown and black from passing carts and horses. Elain and Nesta clicked their tongues and grimaced as we made our way along it, dodging the particularly…
Chapter 2 The sun had set by the time I exited the forest, my knees shaking. My hands, stiff from clenching the legs of the deer, had gone utterly numb miles ago. Not even the carcass could ward off the…
Chapter 1 The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice. I’d been monitoring the parameters of the thicket for an hour, and my vantage point in the crook of a tree branch had turned useless. The gusting wind…
After ANNA TODD (writer/producer/influencer) is the New York Times best-selling author of the After series, the Brightest Stars trilogy, The Spring Girls, and the After Graphic novels. The After series has been released in 35 languages and has sold over…
Chapter 97 – After Everything is happening too fast for me to comprehend. I’m confused, and when I look around the room, I see that I’m surrounded by people who have taunted me no matter hard I tried to fit…
Chapter 96 – After Nervousness overtakes me as I walk through the smoky bar. Why did I think this was a good idea? Hardin is going to be furious with me, and Steph may just think I’m insane. When she…
Chapter 95 – After I love coming home!” I proclaim with a squeal as we walk into the apartment, only to then realize it’s freezing. “Except when you turn the heat off.” I shiver and he chuckles. “I still haven’t…
Chapter 94 – After Where’s Landon?” I ask Hardin when we take our seats. He takes a bite of a croissant. “I don’t know.” “Um, you said he was looking for me?” “He was, but I don’t know where he…
Chapter 93 – After Clearly trying to change the subject, Hardin asks, “So now that we have our own place, I assume you don’t want to stay at my father’s house tonight still?” I force Zed’s beaten face to the…
Chapter 92 – After This woman I’ve lived with values her sense of control so much that there are few times I’ve managed to surprise her, let alone stun her. But here, I have really, truly stunned my mother. Her…
Chapter 91 – After We haven’t moved from our spot in the chair for at least thirty minutes, when finally Hardin lifts his head from my chest and says, “Can I eat now?” “Yes.” I give him a weak smile…
Chapter 90 – After I put down my book and check the time on my phone. It’s a little after midnight, so I should try to force myself to go to sleep. He already tried to get me to come…
Chapter 89 – After When I wake up, it takes me a few moments to realize I am still on the couch. “Hardin?” I call out, untangling myself from the blanket. I walk to the bedroom in the hopes he…
Chapter 88 – After look so sexy today,” he says against my neck before gently pressing his lips against my skin. I shiver. “Why . . . why are you here?” “You aren’t happy to see me?” He smiles and…
Chapter 87 – After Hardin signs his name on the bottom of what seems like an endless page before sliding the whole thing over to me. I grab the pen and sign before I can start overthinking it again. I…
Chapter 86 – After The next morning, bright and early, I scramble around Hardin’s room, gathering my things to take a shower. “I’m coming with you,” he groans, but I laugh. “No, you’re not. You know it’s only six a.m.,…
Chapter 85 – After In what feels like a desperate attempt to be closer to me as we kiss, Hardin moves a hand to the back of my neck. I can sense all of his anger and frustration being transferred…
Chapter 84 – After I scramble backward with my hands as Hardin lifts Dan’s head, his hands still wrapped around his neck, and slams it down into the grass. For a second I wonder if Hardin would have done the…