CHAPTER 21

FREYA'S POV

The chilly silence is more painful than the embarrassment flooding through me while I sit there covered in fluid.

I can't even look up at Silas, wondering the look he would be giving me right now.

The crowd reacts finally and all I hear is laughter that echoes around me incessantly. Just like that, I've become some sort of laughing stock to the whole school - most likely to Xena and Silas as well.

I bite my quivering lips, squeezing my eyes shut.

I'm fine, no matter ...