The Devils and The Duchess (Verona Falls University, #1)

by Marissa Farrar

I don’t feel good. The room is no longer solid around me, the floor tilting. I’ve receded from everyone around me, tunneling inside myself.

No, no, no.

can’t have this happen in front ...

I remember the glimpse of regret I saw in Tino’s eyes, and the way Dom didn’t smile as I walked down the aisle.

It hits me—they did this.

And everything go...

Mackenzie hits the floor.

Her body shakes and trembles. Her beautiful mouth is curled to one side in a grimace. Her hands have become claws. The only part of her eyes that is visible are the whites.

“Oh, fuck. Mack? Mack!”

“Don’t touch her,” Lucia cries. “She’s epileptic.” What. The. Fuck? Mackenzie is epileptic, and she’s never said a fucking word. We’ve been basically torturing her, and she’s got a… I don’t even know how to think of it. An illness? A disability? Tino glances over his shoulder at me. I’ve never seen such terror in his dark eyes. “I think she’s stopped breathing,” he says. “Someone call nine-one-one,” Lucia cries. The enormity of witnessing this makes me realize something, and my walls crumble. No, no, fuck no. This can’t be happening. We can’t lose her. I now understand… The Devils need their Duchess.