Chapter 16

Violet

I fumbled with my hands, thinking about my biggest secret.

What was my biggest secret?

For a second, my mind went to Kylan—but then I realized that he wasn’t it. He was definitely a fear, and a secret, but not my biggest.

The voices were talking about my glasses—the thing I had been forced to hide my entire life. They had been my biggest insecurity.

A loud laugh broke the tension.

It was Kylan.

“No, no,” he said, the laughter only growing louder. He buried his head between his head, sighing. “No, I’m not doing this.”

He held an uneasy look in his eyes, and so did Nate who shifted beside him. Although Nate had been kind, also he hadn’t opened up about anything. The only thing I knew about him were the basics. Beta dad, noble blood, bitch sister.

“If you want to become captain,” Dylan spoke up. “I’m afraid you’ll have to.”

Kylan chuckled. “No.”

“We can be back before sunrise—but not if that box keeps talking to us,” Dylan didn’t back down.

Dylan had always been a serious person.