Surviving Magic (School of Magic Survival Book 1) by Chloe Garner

Author:Chloe Garner [Garner, Chloe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A Horse Called Alpha
Published: 2019-12-05T22:00:00+00:00

Grant

The door opened.

Valerie wasn’t sure if she’d opened it or if he had, but he…

If she hadn’t been so animated from the fight, she might have fallen to her knees.

It was him.

Aged a good bit, with silvering hair that was much finer than it had been, back then, and with stubble on his chin where he’d been meticulously clean-shaven before, but she recognized him from the pictures.

There was no room for doubt at all.

“Dad,” she said.

He put out his hand.

“I need to close this to cast on it, and then we have to move really fast,” he said.

“Where have you been?” she asked, blinking. He drew her out of the room by her elbow - the demons on this side were just as frozen as the girls on the other side, and their absolutely-human facial expressions of violent range were terrifying. She looked closely at one of them as her father worked.

“Demons?” she asked. “How can you tell?”

“The fact that they didn’t come through a door helps,” Grant Blake told her. “After that, things get a bit tricky.”

He finished a mark on the door and put his hand over it, and it hissed and sizzled and seeped into the door until it was invisible.

“That will hold,” he said. “I don’t care who they are. Between what you’ve got on there and that… Elsa Beth Harrington will be the only person in the whole school who can open it. They may have to replace the door.”

Valerie shook her head, and he turned to her.

“I need you to be here and not here,” he said. “After this, we move fast, okay?”

Her eyebrows went up, and he put his fingers along her jaw, his index fingers under her ears and his pinkies resting under her chin. He had cool, clean hands, by feel. He spoke words that she didn’t recognize, then slid his thumbs along her eyebrows, lifting his chin.

“Yes. There. Let’s go.”

“No,” Valerie said.

“I’m very serious about this,” he said. “We have only a few seconds.”

“Where have you been?” Valerie asked.

“I give you my word, I will answer that. Just not here.”

Valerie looked him in the eye for a moment longer, then looked at the mayhem in the hallway.

Mrs. Gold appeared to have a three-tongued whip that she was using to chase down a demon who was fleeing her.

“She is scary,” Valerie observed, and Grant Blake laughed.

“You have no idea,” he said. “Come.”

Valerie turned and followed him out of the school.

There was a low, sleek, black car parked out front, still running, and he opened the passenger-side door, looking back at the school as she got in.

“Can’t believe she sent you to Survival School,” he muttered as he closed the door and walked briskly around to the other side, getting in.

“Where have you been?” Valerie demanded as he put the car in drive and accelerated away. The force of it pressed her back into her seat for several moments.

“Doing my job, actually,” Grant answered. “Which is more than I can say for your mother.

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