HUSH, Ivy: The Arcane Academy by Kirah Nyx

Author:Kirah Nyx [Nyx, Kirah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-05-20T05:00:00+00:00

Thoughts of the unattainable wish she harboured vanished from her mind as she shoved through heavy doors. In the den, the cocktail bar was crowded by jubilant students, the study desks were packed with hard-working eleventh year pupils, the couches were teeming with babbling Vampires, and the stairs were packed with gossiping youngsters. Her heated eyes swept the area in search for one of her two friends as she stood in the doorway. The door had become impatient, however, and made a throat-clearing sound to usher her inside. It worked; she gave the metal door an apologetic glance before stepping further inside and continued to search for Penny and Addie. Unfortunately, her gaze met with familiar white eyes, and she breathed a tired sigh.

Samael Valac pushed himself from the mantelpiece he had been leaning on, and strode through the busy room toward her. Adjusting the strap of her bag over her shoulder, Ivy’s posture visibly slumped as he reached her.

“Please, Samael,” she began before he could even speak. “I’m really not in the mood today.”

“I wonder why,” he drawled, snatching her arm. He hauled her over to the cocktail bar, where he rudely shoved a fifth-year student from a bar stool. A flick of his hand gestured for Ivy to sit. Eyeing him suspiciously, she jumped up on the barstool and waited for his malicious and mysterious ploy to unfold.

Samael didn’t have to summon the ghoul behind the cocktail bar; the rotten creature staggered over immediately. The ghoul had a noticeably deathly scent about it. Ivy resisted the urge to spray perfume in its direction.

“Strawberry blood,” Samael ordered as his calculative gaze stayed on Ivy.

The ghoul quickly returned and placed a lovely copper mug of alluring strawberry blood on the bar before lurching over to another student.

“Drink it,” Samael ordered, and pushed the copper mug toward her.

“I can’t,” she whispered, but her mouth salivated generously at the scent wafting up from the warm blood. “Coach Aldon said—”

He interrupted harshly, “Do what you must to summon your magic, but if you continue to starve yourself like this, you will be unable to control yourself.”

She cocked her eyebrow and steadily met his arctic eyes. “I’ve been doing fine so far, but even if I go into a frenzy, I’ll only attack the Videer. They’re more than capable of controlling me, Samael, so I think I’ll be ok.”

“They can do a lot more than control you in that state,” he warned, and leaned closer to her. “They will have legal grounds to execute you if you try to attack them. Is your life worth less than your powers?” He didn’t wait for a response to his rhetorical question, and instead, straightened himself and gave her a stern stare. “Drink it. End of discussion.”

“Yes, father,” she sassed, but he stalked away without another word.

Ivy scowled at the back of his head as he strode back to the fireplace to join his friends. She even took the liberty of sticking out her tongue at him before pushing the mug of tempting blood toward a fellow student at the bar.

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