Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition by Mead Richelle

Author:Mead, Richelle [Mead, Richelle]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2016-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

NINETEEN

It’s hard to say what finally made me do it. I’d held on to so many secrets for so long, doing what I believed best protected Lissa. But hiding her cutting did nothing to protect her. I hadn’t been able to make her stop—and really, I now wondered if it was my fault she’d ever started. None of this had happened until she healed me in the accident. What if she’d left me injured? Maybe I would have recovered. Maybe she would be all right today.

I stayed in the clinic while Dimitri went to get Alberta. He hadn’t hesitated for a second when I told him where she was. I’d said she was in danger, and he’d left immediately.

Everything after that moved like some sort of slow-motion nightmare. The minutes dragged on while I waited. When he finally returned with an unconscious Lissa, a flurry arose at the clinic, one everyone wanted me kept out of. She had lost a lot of blood, and while they had a feeder on hand right away, rousing her to enough consciousness to drink proved difficult. It wasn’t until the middle of the Academy’s night that someone decided she was stable enough for me to visit.

“Is it true?” she asked when I walked into the room. She lay on the bed, wrists heavily bandaged. I knew they’d put a lot of blood back into her, but she still looked pale to me. “They said it was you. You told them.”

“I had to,” I said, afraid to get too close. “Liss . . . you cut yourself worse than you ever have. And after healing me . . . and then everything with Christian . . . you couldn’t handle it. You needed help.”

She closed her eyes. “Christian. You know about that. Of course you do. You know about everything.”

“I’m sorry. I just wanted to help.”

“What happened to what Ms. Karp said? About keeping it all secret?”

“She was talking about the other stuff. I don’t think she’d want you to keep cutting yourself.”

“Did you tell them about the ‘other stuff’?”

I shook my head. “Not yet.”

She turned toward me, eyes cold. “‘Yet.’ But you’re going to.”

“I have to. You can heal other people . . . but it’s killing you.”

“I healed you.”

“I would have been okay eventually. The ankle would have healed. It’s not worth what it does to you. And I think I know how it started . . . when you first healed me. . . .”

I explained my revelation about the accident and how all of her powers and depression had started after that. I also pointed out how our bond had formed after the accident too, though I didn’t fully understand why yet.

“I don’t know what’s going on, but this is beyond us. We need someone’s help.”

“They’ll take me away,” she said flatly. “Like Ms. Karp.”

“I think they’ll try to help you. They were all really worried. Liss, I’m doing this for you. I just want you to be okay.”

She turned away from me.

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