The Broken Academy 3: Power of Blood (A Paranormal Academy Reverse Harem Romance) by Jade Alters

Author:Jade Alters [Alters, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

Serge,

The Kyrie Stronghold, Fey Forest

I don’t need to listen in on Dorian to know who’s behind this mystical feat of growth. Trees don’t get this big in North America anymore. Not without a National Forest representative coming to size them up and sell them off to paper companies. No, this is a Fey Forest, the same kind I’ve learned about that blanket Thornegarde. I never imagined they’d grow one here in our Realm. That is, until I followed Dorian and Cece here.

It wasn’t exactly my mission to track Cece. Bart was my original target. The Dragonlord was beginning to suspect her old friend of something other than honor, with his lack of information to report. I mean, according to Thise, Bart spent most of the week at the Kyrie Stronghold. Yet he came back with nothing. I hardly needed a reason to follow him all the way out here anyway. Not with the way Bart’s been looking at Cece lately. The problem is, he’s by far the less interesting of the two who left the Academy earlier today. Therein lies the suspicion. He’s been part of this operation for months and he has nothing to show for it. Yet, watching him, I get the impression he doesn’t feel an ounce of the pressure that’s on.

I’d be scrambling up and down every inch of the Kyrie Stronghold, asking questions and peeping through keyholes. Not Bart. With the personal tweak of a simple trick, I watch him stroll up and down halls of other Vampires, Magicians and Fey. He floats through the flow of foot-traffic in the same general direction as Cece, but on a different route. They both come up from the earth at the edge of the Fey Forest, but Bart lingers on the edge while Cece ventures deeper inside on Dorian’s heels. The ASTF’s sole Vampire member kicks up dirt and chats with more than one of the mint-skinned Fey who line the outer groves of the Forest. Through the link created by my trick, I listen in on every uninteresting word.

Bart shoots the breeze over exotic vegetables from Thornegarde and whether various Fey think they could grow it here. He asks one of them how big they can grow their bodies, if they really try. He does something like flirting with one Fey girl, and even plops down to eat a sandwich for about twenty minutes. It takes me about that long to realize that he probably knows I’m watching him. Why else would he be wasting so much time while he’s supposed to be on a mission?

That’s when I veer off course to follow Cece, instead. I see the family resemblance between her and Dorian instantly. But I know better than most how little similar looks mean in terms of family bonds. It’s more from boredom than anything else that I tune into their conversation with a little illusory sound trap. From the second I do, though, I find myself instantly captivated. I lean forward over the crest of the shrubby hill I use for cover, to listen more closely.

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