Bloodline Treachery: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy Academy Novel (Bloodline Academy Book 10) by Lan Chan

Author:Lan Chan [Chan, Lan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

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The bitter smell coming from the arboretum almost choked me. Angel’s breath was meant to be potent, but this was beyond anything I had ever experienced before. I knew that scent somehow. An alarm went off in my head, but it was tamped out shortly after.

Lucifer sniffed and halted ten metres away. “You are so pathetic!” I barked at him.

“Manual labour is for peasants.”

Once I dumped these flowers in the compost bin, I fully intended to punch him in the head. The first warning bell sounded. “That’s just great.”

My communication pendant beeped. “Lex!” Sophie voice called out from it. “Where are you?”

I pressed my thumb to the small mirror. “Getting told off and now doing yard duty!”

“Oh. We’ll wait for you at the briefing.”

Diana’s voice interjected. “Just teleport in! We’ll be at the front somewhere.” The connected died.

Lucifer gave me as wide a berth as he could while I speed-walked to the mess hall. If I could have caught him, I would have teleported us. The lines were shorter, but it still took me too long to grab my potion. By then, the second warning bell had also sounded. I gulped down the potion and dumped the cup. Twirling, I was about to grab Lucifer to teleport when my gut quibbled.

The hedge magic splintered. It soared through my insides and settled over the potion. I clawed at air. The wall was too far away. Lucifer grabbed the back of my shirt to stop me from being side-swiped by other guards coming and going. “Are you always this clumsy?” he questioned.

“No!”

He didn’t argue with me. I wasn’t this wobbly on my feet. But I’d been tripping over a lot recently. I chalked it up to lack of sleep. The flaw in Diana’s plan to have me teleport in was that I couldn’t see them over the heads of the other guards. If I teleported indiscriminately, I’d end up getting yelled at some more. Unable to find the others anywhere, I decided to remain at the back of the crowd during briefing.

Matthew’s voice filtered through the crowd. “You all might have noticed that your schedules were redirected last night,” he announced. “There have been too many incidences of uncommon aggression and outbreaks of hysteria in Morgana and Cardinal City. We’ll need to focus our patrols on those sectors for the time being. That means we’ll have to leave the guard schedule for Bloodline Academy’s solstice ball to volunteers.

“New Alacanthea is off limits at the moment too until we can figure out what the source of their spike in death rates could be.”

“Do you really have to figure anything out?” one of the Fae behind us shouted. “It’s whatever spell this Pestilence is casting over us. We’ve got the solution standing right here.” The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end. Lucifer nudged me in the back to force me to straighten my spine.

“We are not prey,” he reminded me. “Stop acting like it.”

Ivan’s sandpaper voice spoke over the quiet murmuring of the crowd.

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