Dark Fae by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

Author:Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti [Peckham, Caroline & Valenti, Susanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-25T05:00:00+00:00

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I seriously wanted to skip my Liaison session with Professor Titan that evening but after ditching out on most of my counselling session the other day, I dragged myself along to it. I couldn’t risk the chance of me getting expelled for breaking stupid rules like bunking mandatory sessions. And at least a Liaison didn’t involve a Siren sifting through my emotions like a goddamn breathing lie detector.

I knocked on the door to his office and it swung open to admit me. Titan was sitting behind his desk, his nose in a book and a pinched expression on his face as he concentrated. He beckoned me in so I knew he was aware of my arrival and I pushed the door shut behind me before dropping into the chair in front of his desk.

He kept reading and I tipped my head back towards the ceiling as I settled in, tracing the progress of a spider as it crawled towards the corner.

“Sorry for the delayed start,” Titan said, closing the book with a solid thump. “I’ve been doing a little research on your kind before our session and I didn’t quite finish before your arrival.”

“My kind?” I asked with a frown.

“Yes. Vampires. We had a Vampire teaching here up until a few months ago and she would have been your Liaison had she not…well if she hadn’t…didn’t…leave.” Titan cleared his throat awkwardly and I perked up a little as he totally failed to cover the fact that there was more to that story than her just getting a new job.

“Why did she leave?” I asked, not caring that I was being nosey. That was the best way to gain information anyway.

“Well, she ah-” Titan looked around as if he thought someone might be eavesdropping and I found myself genuinely wanting to hear the end of that sentence. “She was having relations with someone she really shouldn’t have. Perhaps a few someones… Anyway, the point is she’s gone and so you’ve got me and my knowledge of the Vampire Code was more than a little rusty so I thought I’d brush up.”

“Okay.” My mind was whirling with questions about this missing professor. Surely it wasn’t usual for teachers to leave in the middle of a school year? And if she’d left a few months ago that could even tie in with Gareth’s death.

“So. The Code,” Titan said firmly, seeming disinclined to expand on the subject of the missing teacher.

“I’m aware of it,” I replied. Though in all honesty I’d only given it a cursory glance a few days after my Order had emerged under the instructions of my old high school head teacher. He’d thought I should follow the stuffy set of rules and guidelines laid out by old, dead Vampires who had nothing to do with me and I’d agreed even if I hadn’t bothered to really take in much of what the Code recommended.

The main points were obvious anyway. No killing. No permanent maiming. No keeping blood slaves. Where would I keep a blood slave anyway? In my dungeon? It was a fucking joke.

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