Nocticadia

Nocticadia

Author: Keri Lake Listening Length: 18h 36m
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Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living. After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I’d find the cure for what ravaged her. And leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I receive an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the ol...

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CHAPTER 54

F rom the cart, I lifted two physics texts and placed them on the shelf where they belonged. A glance at my watch showed only five more minutes before my shift ended, and I couldn’t stand it any longer. My stomach twisted with the uncertainty of whether, or not, he’d even show.

Once the clock struck, I alerted Kelvin, as I normally did, and grabbed my bag, stopping in the restroom along the way to make sure I didn’t have any food from dinner lodged in my teeth.

I removed my underwear, feeling much more confident about that since the night I’d shown up for class without them, and stuffed them into my bag before hustling to the rotunda room.

The ceiling of the circular structure was a glass dome that loomed over the marble floor two stories below it.