Chapter 35. Caught

MICHELLE

As they crept closer, my eyes raced back and forth between Draco and the boys, and the hold I had on the straps of my backpack became increasingly white-knuckled.

“Where are you going?” Draco asked, eyes glinting as he stopped a foot away from me. His cold dark gaze made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. “You’re going to escape me, are you?”

The mockery in his voice made it sound rhetorical, and I bit my tongue to stop myself from answering. If I won’t talk back, he might let me leave.

“You’re going to leave Goldstein without you informing them?” he asked. “What else are you hiding, Rivera? I know you’re keeping a lot of secrets, and I want to know everything there is about it before I let you leave…”

My feet slowly stepped back on their own towards the elevator. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I… I don’t want any trouble, Draco…”

He gave a snort and his brow furrowed in a sarcastic manner.

“You don’t want any troub