The Ritual: A Dark College Romance

Ryat wakes after a week in the hospital. Gunner, Prickett, and Sarah report that they arrived to find Ryat bleeding and Blakely gone. Despite his injuries, Ryat tries to go seek Blakely, but Prickett forces him back into bed. When Ryat wakes again, he is restrained to the bed. Abbot and Phil are present; they promise to find Blakely. Ryat asks for his phone, admitting to implanting a tracker in Blakely’s neck after she ran away. The men argue over whether Ryat can accompany them while they seek Blakely. Ryat knows Blakely is pregnant.

Ryat recalls the night of his wedding to Blakely, when he replaced her birth control pills with placebos. In the present, he admits that he intended to tamper with her birth control but that she fled without the false pills and never resumed her birth control when she returned. Phil agrees that Ryat should accompany them, given that Blakely is pregnant, despite Abbot’s insistence that Ryat’s injuries will make him a liability. Abbot reveals that he really fears Ryat will suffer from finding Blakely dead, but Ryat insists on going.

Meanwhile, Blakely struggles with her confinement in a room with nothing to do, grieving and angry over Ryat’s supposed death.