‘All it took was getting caught in breaking the rules.’
She was the delinquent student. He was the priest who owned a black cat, and theirs was a union forged from the embers of hell.
——
“Somebody is getting curious,” the first girl said.
“It wouldn’t be the first time,” a man’s voice replied. “Shake the curiosity off her.”
“Is it who I think it is?” An older woman questioned.
The first girl nodded. “We’re not practically close, but it looks like she has a leverage.”
“I told you all to be on the low,” a stern man’s voice interrupted. “We cannot stir things up now when there’s a recent death! Are you forgetting that there’s a new inclusion to the priests? Not one, not two, but three for goodness sake!”
A hush fell amongst them, the man’s anger reverberating.
“We’ve been on the low, I’m making sure of that,” the older woman said.
“What leverage do you think she has?” The first man asked.
The girl exhaled. “Didn’t say, but she kept asking questions.”
“Do something about it,” the harsh man said, “or you know, it’s everyday students fall off the staircase, and it’s not hard to call it suicide.”
——
When Ivie touched people, she could see excerpts from their past or their future, when Ivie touched Father Chibuike, she only saw darkness. Together they would fight the shadows of death that made the students of St. Stephen Immaculate college commit suicide. She could have escaped her twisted fate, but she agreed to hold the priest’s secret, and soon she told him hers!
