Bloodline Heresy: An Urban Fantasy Academy Novel (Bloodline Academy Book 9) by Lan Chan

Author:Lan Chan [Chan, Lan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-05-07T16:00:00+00:00

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Lucifer’s yellowish eyes were the first thing I saw when I opened mine. It felt like there was a lump on the side of my head. I was lying down on the couch in the communal living area. This place was still so foreign that when I first regained consciousness, I didn’t know where I was.

“You hit me!” I accused him.

“You were screaming and clutching at your chest!” he shot back. Eugenia’s ashen expression confirmed as much.

Nanna arrived in the room with a cup of tea. It was a distraction and something to focus on more than anything else. When my hands no longer rattled the cup as I took each sip, I got up and paced towards the mirror.

Slapping my hand on it, I spoke Angus’s name. “Can you meet me inside Sanctuary?”

We arrived at the same time. I wasn’t sure where he’d been, but he arrived with Matthew and Dorian.

Raphael hurried into the room. I lifted my chin to bare the mark. “Can you please check to see if anything has gone wrong with the mark?” I asked the seraph.

He obliged with a frown. “What’s happened?”

I was hardly surprised when green angelfire erupted in the room. I was actually relieved when there were two of them. “Can you see anything?” I asked Raphael.

He looked again while I gave him an explanation of what had happened. I didn’t know how I felt when he pronounced once and for all that there was nothing different about me.

“And you’re sure you saw souls?” Raphael asked.

I wrung my hands. The memory of them was agonising. “Yes. They were inside the Sea of Souls being tormented. They wanted me to help them, but I couldn’t.”

Never before had I felt so completely impotent. This was a worse kind of helplessness than not having power at all. The bone magic was there, I just couldn’t reach it. Frustration made my insides burn.

“Have you ever heard of anyone successfully removing a demon mark before?”

Raphael shook his head. “The difference between a mark and a possession is that the mark allows the being to live without the demon inside them. Some do better than others at resisting.”

I tried to think logically. “Why?”

Raphael placed his hand on my shoulder. “We can only guess at why Famine wanted to mark–”

“No, I meant why did it only mark me? Why only take away the bone magic?”

Kai was the only one in the room who had had the pleasure of being there while I was marked. “If he’d had the time, and you didn’t fight back,” Kai said, “he wouldn’t have just marked you. The question is, would he have possessed you? Or taken you captive?”

They were good questions. I just didn’t have any of the answers.

I wondered if Fred might. Angus cracked his knuckles when I asked if I could see Fred. “Suspension from duty means you’re not supposed to be within Stormhaven grounds,” he said.

I shrugged, knowing what he wanted from me. “I swear, under other circumstances, I would totally be contrite.

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