Kissed by Midnight: A Dark Academy Romance (The Cimmerian Cage Book 3) by Cate Corvin

Author:Cate Corvin [Corvin, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: reverse harem paranormal romance
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2019-07-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

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“Ivy. Grandfather will be extremely disappointed in your conduct.”

Even though I knew I’d reached the end of the line, my stomach still sank at those words.

I’d wanted to go with my men to face Albrecht, but instead I’d be going alongside my hated family. In a way, I felt peaceful with it: they wouldn’t suffer at Albrecht’s hands.

I closed my eyes, reaching out for my familiar’s mind as Gilt chastised Ivy with cold, hard words. The cat wasn’t in my room. A spark of panic flew through me before I found him clinging to Dominic’s shoulder with tooth and claw.

I slipped into my familiar’s head and watched what he saw from a Dom’s-eye perspective. The cat turned his head at my direction, taking in the jungle of choking plants that filled the North Entrance and half the cafeteria.

Dominic was looking for a way through to the twins: both were caught in a net of tangling, thorny vines, raging towards Carmen. My heart ached when I saw the blood pooling beneath them, the raw fury in Shane’s eyes.

Dom had found the twins. But now I needed him to know we were going below, and my familiar wasn’t experienced enough for me to use his body language to signal.

There was every chance I might not be coming back up this time. Did I want them working their way through the darkness to the Cage, where Albrecht could feed them into the Vita Machina?

No. I’d rather die alone in the consuming wildfire I’d unleash than let them die there, too. Do whatever you can to stop them, Demonseed.

The cat immediately climbed to the top of Dom’s head and dug in with his claws. The professor swore colorfully, tugging the kitten away. It was a meager hope, but it was the only one I had.

I left his mind and returned to myself to find Ivy kneeling in front of Gilt, tears streaming over her cheeks. “She’s not one of us!”

“That’s not for us to decide.” Gilt sounded almost gentle, but the steel was still under the maternal warmth in her voice. “Grandfather has lived for two hundred years, and he hasn’t wronged us yet. You have so little faith in our patriarch, Ivy. All you can do is throw yourself on his mercy now.”

She beckoned Ivy to her feet and turned on her heel. We followed her obediently through the ruined rose garden, and an enormous white plate of stone set in the ground caught my eye. Dirt was thrown over it in heaps, but the faintly sparkling runes carved in it made its provenance clear: it was the waystone Roman had found.

My hands were shaking with anticipation. I clenched my unbroken fist at my side. Soon, I’d turn Albrecht into so much charred debris, too.

We went into the school through the East Entrance, the glittering foyer of marble and crystal chandeliers, and Gilt opened the black door leading to Locke. Ivy went first, twitching with me on her heels and letting out

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