Jake's POV
I tried going back to bed.
Keyword: tried.
Sylas was clearly nuts. Or maybe just too high-strung for a place like this. Whatever it was, I shouldn’t have let him get in my head. I shouldn’t have even engaged him.
Monsters?
Right. And maybe next week, I’d be abducted by aliens who wanted to teach me advanced calculus.
It was a prank. Had to be. Some messed-up, long-standing tradition where seniors test how gullible the freshmen are. Maybe they had a whole betting pool about who would crack first. Sylas just happened to be the poor bastard who snapped early.
And if, by some insane chance, he was telling the truth?
Then it was a cult.
Big deal. I wasn’t joining it.
I rolled over in bed, pulling the blanket over my head like Sylas had done last night. Ironic. But even unde
