Betrayed.pdf.wps by Crystal; Billy

Author:Crystal; Billy
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-04T03:59:18+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

I was still feeling shaky, confused, and more than a little sick to my stomach when I finally got to the dorm.

Clusters of damp kids pooled around the main room watching TV and drinking hot chocolate. I grabbed a towel from a stack by the door and joined Stevie Rae, the Twins, and Damien sitting around our favorite TV watching Project Runway, and started drying a grumbling Nala.

Stevie Rae didn't realize I was being uncharacteristically quiet. She was too busy gushing about how the snowball fight I'd avoided earlier had morphed into a major battle after dinner that had raged until someone had thrown a snowball that had hit one of the windows of Dragon's office.

Dragon was what everyone called the fencing professor, and he was not a vamp any fledgling would want to piss off.

"Dragon ended the snow war." Stevie Rae giggled.

"But it was real fun until then.”

"Yeah, Z, you missed one hellacious wicked fight,"

Erin said. "We knocked the crap outta Damien and his boyfriend," Shaunee said.

"He's not my boyfriend!" Damien said, but his little smile seemed to add an unspoken "yet" to the end of the sentence.

"What ...”

"… ever," said the Twins.

"I think he's cute," Stevie Rae said.

"Me, too," Damien said, turning adorably pink.

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"What do you think of him, Zoey?" Stevie Rae asked.

I blinked at Stevie Rae. It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.

"Is everything okay, Zoey?" Damien said.

"Damien, can you get me some eucalyptus?" I said abruptly

"Eucalyptus?”

I nodded. "Yeah, some strands of it, and some sage, too. I need both for the ritual tomorrow.”

"Yeah, no problem," Damien said, watching me entirely too closely.

"Did you get the ritual all figured out, Z?" Stevie Rae asked.

"I think so." I paused and took a long breath. Then I met Damien's questioning gaze steadily. "Damien, has there ever been a case of a fledgling who seemed to have died, but later was found alive?”

To his credit, Damien didn't freak or ask me if I had gone insane. I could feel that the Twins and Stevie Rae were staring at me like I'd just announced I was going to be on Girls Gone Wild: Vamp Edition, but I ignored them and kept focused on Damien. We all knew he spent hours studying, and he remembered everything he read. If any of us would know the answer to my bizarre question, it would be him.

"When a fledgling's body starts rejecting the Change there is no stopping it. That's clear in all the books. It's also what Neferet has told us. Zoey," I'd never heard him sound so serious. "What is wrong?”

"Please, please, please tell me you're not feeling sick!" Stevie Rae practically sobbed.

"No! It's nothing like that," I said quickly. "I'm fine.

I promise.”

"What's going on?" Shaunee said.

"You're scaring us," Erin said.

"I don't mean to," I told them. "Okay, this is coming out all wrong, but I think I saw that Elliott kid.

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