Ever Dark Academy (Volume 1) by X. Aratare

Author:X. Aratare [Aratare, X.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raythe Reign Publishing

IMMORTAL

Does your blood run pure, Grayson?

Ryder’s hands curled tighter around the balcony’s stone railing.

How will I know unless I taste it?

The echo of Lawson’s voice from the vision that Daemon had given him rocketed around in Ryder’s head. Well, the first statement was from the vision, but the second was his own imagination. But it was what Lawson would say.

Would your feelings for Grayson not be enough to keep Lawson under control?

Ryder’s tongue clove to the top of his mouth as all the saliva drained out of it, leaving it mummified at Daemon’s remembered question.

Would he not do this for you?

Fledglings did things for their Masters, not the other way around.

Surely, he wouldn’t harm who you care for no matter how new that caring!

Ryder drew in a deep breath and his eyelids flew open. The west interior courtyard of the Weryn lodgings swam into view. Tall trees with silver bark and leaves that were so dark green they were almost black stirred in a sweet wind. The sound they made reminded him of running his hands over silk.

You would have me hate him.

Would I? Or does part of you hate him already?

Ryder drew in another deep breath. He turned on his heel and headed into his room. Though he left the sky behind, the room’s high ceilings kept him from feeling claustrophobic. He strode to the single piece of furniture in the room. A table that could seat twenty, but held only one at the moment. But it was the only person--other than Grayson--that he had a mind to see.

“You need more blood.” Demos pushed the decanter and glass towards him. The dark red liquid sloshed and left a red haze in its wake. “It would be better fresh.”

“I have no time for amusements,” Ryder said as he poured himself another glass.

The thought of taking a warm body into his arms at that moment, of putting his lips against skin, of feeling a heartbeat swell under his tongue, of hearing moans of pleasure travel up his fangs were not what he could bear at the moment.

Does your blood run pure, Grayson?

Ryder swallowed down another glass of tepid blood the consistency of molasses. He grimaced.

How will I know unless I taste it?

“Oh, but you had time to walk Grayson to his rooms?” Demos’ left eyebrow rose. “And to take your sweet time in getting him there? You even went inside with all those students that we’re supposed to be ignoring. But there you were. A part of the party. Like we’re all some happy family.”

“He’s a link to the Sect of Dawn,” Ryder said as he stared down into the glass. It was stained red. The coppery scent of blood filled his nostrils, but he felt no hunger, no desire, nothing at all.

How will I know unless I taste it?

He swallowed hard.

“And the fact that he’s all edges with soft, wounded eyes has nothing to do with you taking your time? And making people wonder if Weryn is in it?” Demos took a sip of his own blood and grimaced as well.

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