Drink Deep - Chloe Neill [131]
When I flipped the phone closed again, I stared at it for a minute, tears pricking at my eyes. I tried to keep them from spilling over, to keep from crying in the middle of my first hour at St. Sophia’s, the first hour into my new life.
They spilled over anyway. I didn’t want to be here. Not at this school, not in Chicago. If I didn’t think they’d just ship me right back again, I’d have used the credit card my mom gave me for emergencies, charged a ticket, and hopped a plane back to New York.
“This sucks,” I said, swiping carefully at my overflowing tears, trying to avoid smearing the black eyeliner around my eyes.
A knock sounded at the door, which opened. I glanced up. “Are you planning your escape?” asked the girl with the nose ring and black nail polish who stood in my doorway.
Chloe Neill was born and raised in the South, but now makes her home in the Midwest—just close enough to Cadogan House and St. Sophia’s to keep an eye on things. When not transcribing Merit’s and Lily’s adventures, she bakes, works, and scours the Internet for good recipes and great graphic design. Chloe also maintains her sanity by spending time with her boys—her favorite landscape photographer and their dogs, Baxter and Scout. (Both she and the photographer understand the dogs are in charge.) Visit her on the Web at www.chloeneill.com.
OTHER NOVELS BY CHLOE NEILL
THE CHICAGOLAND VAMPIRES NOVELS
Some Girls Bite
Friday Night Bites
Twice Bitten
Hard Bitten
THE DARK ELITE NOVELS
Firespell
Hexbound
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Epigraph
CHAPTER ONE - GRAVITATIONALLY CHALLENGED
CHAPTER TWO - BITTERSWEET DREAMS
CHAPTER THREE - DEAD IN THE WATER
CHAPTER FOUR - CHICAGO GIVETH; CHICAGO TAKETH AWAY
CHAPTER FIVE - PAPER TOWERS
CHAPTER SIX - NO MAN (OR WOMAN) IS AN ISLAND
CHAPTER SEVEN - PARADIGM SHIFT(ER)
CHAPTER EIGHT - LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
CHAPTER NINE - THE FAIRY TALE
CHAPTER TEN - THE MAD HATTER’S TEA PARTY
CHAPTER ELEVEN - DEAR JOHN
CHAPTER TWELVE - HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - THE BEST PART OF WAKING UP . . . IS TYPE A IN YOUR CUP
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - MAYORAL PRIVILEGE
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - BLACK BIRD
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - A HOUSE DIVIDED
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - WHICH WITCH IS WHICH?
CHAPTER NINETEEN - PHOENIX RISING
EPILOGUE
Teaser chapter
OTHER NOVELS BY CHLOE NEILL