Conspiracy Boy (Angel Academy) by Cecily White

Author:Cecily White [Cecily White]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: YA, teen, Cecily White, young adult, Romance, Prophecy Girl, sequel, Entangled, angel academy, Paranormal
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-04-04T07:00:00+00:00

It took me a few minutes to explain my plan, then a few more to calm Jack down. I guess letting me jump an unmonitored portal to an undefined location, probably into the arms of a waiting psychopath and a known assassin, wasn’t on his list of approved leisure activities.

“Over my dead body,” Jack said, tugging a shirt on. Regrettably. “Let me revise that. Over my cold, dismembered, decapitated, un-revivifiable body.”

“Don’t hold back, Jackson. Tell her how you really feel,” Luc said.

Jack ignored him. “You’re not doing it. No.”

“Yes, I am.”

“You can’t. I won’t help you.”

“You don’t have to.” I pointed at Luc. “He will.”

“I’ll what now?”

“You’ll jump me through this portal to the exit locus key Lisa snuck into my locker last week,” I told him.

He thought about that for a second. “Yeah, okay.”

I smiled at Jack. “It’s all settled.”

“Nothing’s settled,” Jack said. “It’s not happening.”

“It is.”

“Is not.”

“Is.”

We might have gone on like that for another hour if someone hadn’t knocked on the door. Rather forcefully.

“Jackson.” Lori Hansen’s voice seeped through the door from the hallway. “The outside wards are done. Akira needs us on campus.”

Luc sighed. “Remind me to get a Do Not Disturb sign for my bedroom door.”

“Too late,” I said. “You’re already deeply disturbed.”

Lori banged again. “Jackson, are you hearing me?”

Grumbling lightly, my bondmate shut his eyes. After a few beats, he opened them, clapped his hands, and said, “Okay, everybody in the closet.”

Not precisely what I was expecting, but appropriate, nonetheless. With varying levels of complaint, Luc and I shuffled into the closet. He looked vaguely zombielike with the dark circles under his eyes. I’d gotten used to sleep deprivation over the years, but I had to admit, even for me, this was pushing it.

“All right, I’ll help you. With a few rules.” Jack shut the closet door behind us, effectively forming two layers of insulation between us and Lori Hansen. We could still hear her banging, but it was easier to ignore. “First, I jump her, not you. This is Guardian business. Guardians should handle it.”

I opened my mouth to argue, but he cut me off.

“Not negotiable. Second, if we do find Lisa, you maintain strict defensive protocols. No running into her arms shrieking like a hormonal teenage girl, got it?”

I fidgeted with the scarf still loosely knotted at my neck. “I am a hormonal teenage girl.”

“You know what I mean. Third, if anything dangerous or unexpected happens—”

“To her?” Luc broke in. “Inconceivable.”

“Shut it, Luc,” I said.

“—then we portal back here immediately,” Jack finished, wrapping his giant hand around mine. “You’re too important to me. I’d never forgive myself if something happened to you.”

“Things happen to me every day.” I stepped closer until I could feel his breath on my hair, smell his sunshine-and-marshmallows scent. “If you’re with me, I’ll be safe.”

“Promise?”

As he talked, my skin started to do its glowy thing again. It wasn’t my fault. It’s just when you’re standing in a dark room next to your super-hot boyfriend, listening to him tell you how cool and important you are, it’s kind of hard not to get the warm fuzzies.

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