First Kill (Cain University Book 1) by Lucy Auburn

Author:Lucy Auburn [Auburn, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-03T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

None of this makes any sense. Four Affinities, the headmaster says, but the only thing I managed to do while in the arena was use my force field. Sure, I saw ghosts, and so did everyone else, but surely that was some kind of fluke. Or Mason using his own Affinity. It wasn't me. I didn't do anything. The whole thing just happened.

As Headmaster Shu leads me out of the arena and tells me to follow her towards her office, I open my mouth to tell her this, but Eve is jogging up to me and grabbing my arm before I can do or say anything.

"Shut up." Her eyes are wild, her expression verging on panic. "Whatever she says she wants for you, however many powers she thinks you have—just listen, nod, and say yes ma'am."

"But you saw what happened." I lower my voice, and we fall back a bit, reaching the staircase I came in through. The headmaster takes the stairs without checking to make sure that I'm following her, seemingly confident I'll do whatever she says. "There was no way that was me. I have to think about my force field to use it... the ghosts just showed up. And what's this whole Brutus thing? She does know that my last name is Arizona, right?"

"Marcus Junius Brutus, Roman senator. A traitor and assassin who killed Julius Caesar. He had powers from all four physical Classes—few people know that. Mostly he was an advisor, using his Mental Affinity of intuition, but when the time came for the deed to be done, he revealed himself as a master of four classes, the first of his kind. The headmaster must think you're related to him."

"That's ridiculous. My mom's family is from Virginia. My dad's family... I mean, there's no way some vagrant who named himself is somehow related to a great Roman senator."

Eve casts me a look askance, as if studying my face for signs of nobility. "Brutus didn't actually kill himself, despite records claiming as much. It was a great trick he played using his powers so that he could have a second life. According to records we have in the Shadow Fold archive, he sired many children with his Conduits… it's entirely possible that one of them is somehow related to your father."

"Still." I swallow heavily as the light at the top of the staircase appears, and Headmaster Shu takes the last few steps, turning to watch us with a coyly arched brow. "That amount of power... surely I would've noticed it by now. Or felt it myself in the arena. But the only thing I felt was... anger."

That's not the only thing I felt, though. There was also an overwhelming kind of electrical current running between me and the three men I fought each time I touched them. When it was Mason, I saw that vision of us having sex, which for all I know is some kind of wish of his that I tapped into by reading his mind.

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