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Authors: Ashley Bourgeois
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handled your classmates yesterday, you should know that I don’t deal well with those who seek to threaten me. So now...let me address your...questions. The book...well, as I told you earlier, it is not meant for the unprepared, and obviously you are unprepared for such knowledge. Do you really think that the book will allow you to show it to just anyone, child, when it won’t even allow you to return it to its proper owner? I would not have taken you for foolish.”
Aislin bristled under his gaze. “It was not a threat. If I wanted to threaten you, I would have threatened you. I gave you merely an ultimatum. No, I have guessed that it won’t let me show it to anyone, but it seems to want to help me, not anyone else, so if I wanted to find answers, who else would it help but me? Even now, if I were to reach into my bag, where the book has been all day, the book wouldn’t show itself to you. So now...will you answer my questions, or do I have to find the answers on my own?” She was getting irritated with the way he was dodging her questions.
He shook his head in obvious amusement, a faint laugh escaping him. It was sad...he had thought this girl might not be as foolish as the other girls who fluttered about, but apparently he was wrong. “There is no one else to answer your questions, child. And if I wanted to, I could make the book reappear...but do not mistake my kindness for weakness. You have gotten all the answers you are entitled to, and will receive no more. Return the book before the end of the day, or there will be consequences.”
“I can’t,” she said in exasperation. “I’ve tried now. Twice. It doesn’t want to come back to you. So how can I make it come back to you when it doesn’t want to come back? And I am not a child. I’m eighteen. So if you can make it reappear...then do it.” Her eyes flashed the unspoken end to that sentence. I dare you.
“If you persist in acting like a child, then that is how I will treat you. It is just that simple.” Alexander remarked casually, knowing that would likely irritate the girl. Stepping around the counter, he towered over her, pale blue eyes boring into hers. There was a flare of unseen energy before he grabbed her bag and reached into it, a smirk twisting his lips when he pulled out the book. “Ah...I believe this is mine, child. Now...get to class before I decide to assign a detention.”
Her eyes got wide as he made the book appear seemingly out of nowhere and she opened her mouth to demand to know how he did it, but the look in his eyes made her think twice about it. She ran out of the library, feeling somewhat empty with the loss of the book. Why would it have appeared for him, if it was meant for her? It made no sense.
Her reaction made Alexander grin wildly and shake his head in amusement before he turned and headed towards his office in the back of the library. His eyes drifted to the book held securely in his hand. You, my friend, are going back under lock and key, and don’t even think about leaving again... Once inside his office, he closed the door before going to the wall safe. His back was to the hidden camera he wasn’t supposed to be aware of as he put in the combination and opened the safe. Retrieving a silken bag from the back of the safe, he wrapped the book in it before tucking it far in the back of the safe. There...now stay put...foolish thing...
Aislin made some excuse for the rest of the day to the school nurse, saying she felt feverish and sick. The nurse, buying the whole charade after Aislin had put a fireball under her tongue for a few minutes to actually give herself a fever, and she was allowed to go home. It was probably just as well. She didn’t want to be in that school with that librarian any more. It was just...too irritating.
Her stepfather wouldn’t be home for hours still, which meant that Aislin actually could relax.
Aislin bristled under his gaze. “It was not a threat. If I wanted to threaten you, I would have threatened you. I gave you merely an ultimatum. No, I have guessed that it won’t let me show it to anyone, but it seems to want to help me, not anyone else, so if I wanted to find answers, who else would it help but me? Even now, if I were to reach into my bag, where the book has been all day, the book wouldn’t show itself to you. So now...will you answer my questions, or do I have to find the answers on my own?” She was getting irritated with the way he was dodging her questions.
He shook his head in obvious amusement, a faint laugh escaping him. It was sad...he had thought this girl might not be as foolish as the other girls who fluttered about, but apparently he was wrong. “There is no one else to answer your questions, child. And if I wanted to, I could make the book reappear...but do not mistake my kindness for weakness. You have gotten all the answers you are entitled to, and will receive no more. Return the book before the end of the day, or there will be consequences.”
“I can’t,” she said in exasperation. “I’ve tried now. Twice. It doesn’t want to come back to you. So how can I make it come back to you when it doesn’t want to come back? And I am not a child. I’m eighteen. So if you can make it reappear...then do it.” Her eyes flashed the unspoken end to that sentence. I dare you.
“If you persist in acting like a child, then that is how I will treat you. It is just that simple.” Alexander remarked casually, knowing that would likely irritate the girl. Stepping around the counter, he towered over her, pale blue eyes boring into hers. There was a flare of unseen energy before he grabbed her bag and reached into it, a smirk twisting his lips when he pulled out the book. “Ah...I believe this is mine, child. Now...get to class before I decide to assign a detention.”
Her eyes got wide as he made the book appear seemingly out of nowhere and she opened her mouth to demand to know how he did it, but the look in his eyes made her think twice about it. She ran out of the library, feeling somewhat empty with the loss of the book. Why would it have appeared for him, if it was meant for her? It made no sense.
Her reaction made Alexander grin wildly and shake his head in amusement before he turned and headed towards his office in the back of the library. His eyes drifted to the book held securely in his hand. You, my friend, are going back under lock and key, and don’t even think about leaving again... Once inside his office, he closed the door before going to the wall safe. His back was to the hidden camera he wasn’t supposed to be aware of as he put in the combination and opened the safe. Retrieving a silken bag from the back of the safe, he wrapped the book in it before tucking it far in the back of the safe. There...now stay put...foolish thing...
Aislin made some excuse for the rest of the day to the school nurse, saying she felt feverish and sick. The nurse, buying the whole charade after Aislin had put a fireball under her tongue for a few minutes to actually give herself a fever, and she was allowed to go home. It was probably just as well. She didn’t want to be in that school with that librarian any more. It was just...too irritating.
Her stepfather wouldn’t be home for hours still, which meant that Aislin actually could relax.
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