Kissed by Moonlight: A Dark Academy Romance (The Cimmerian Cage Book 2) by Corvin Cate

Author:Corvin, Cate [Corvin, Cate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Independent
Published: 2019-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

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Holly was already waiting for me, her face still drawn, but she, like everyone else in the cafeteria, was watching the new students.

Two young men with mischievous, cat-like faces sat on the tables side by side. They were clearly brothers, with the same dark skin, sparkling brown eyes, and close-cropped curls. A guy who was around Shane and Roman’s age sprawled next to them, looking like he’d just stepped off the pages of a magazine with his blond hair, square jaw, and carved features.

What everyone was really watching was the fourth new student smirking at Daphne. My nemesis looked as cool as ever, her hand resting on her cocked hip, but her eyes were tired.

The new girl was my age, with waist-length black hair, kohl-rimmed eyes, and she’d somehow managed to make Daphne’s over-the-top sexy schoolgirl aesthetic look Puritan next to her.

It was the same thing Daphne had done to me. Go for the throat, take them out early. Establish the new pecking order.

“You expect me to believe a Vega is the highest order of witch in this school?” the new girl sneered. “Please. It’s a cesspool of inbreeding.”

Daphne’s lips curled in her signature cruel smile. “You think? Lower covens clamor to join us. If I remember right, only three years ago your brother Diego married in. Bitter you couldn’t make it too, bitch?”

“Floraluna doesn’t need your status!” The new girl straightened up, throwing her shoulders back. A strange sound, like a hissed whisper, was just audible under her strident voice. “Diego was no loss.”

“Drop it, Carmen,” the blond guy called to her. Holly’s eyes flicked to him. “Just sit down and chill.”

I realized what was making the hissing sound and shivered. The creeping vines that grew over the windows were moving, fresh new leaves unfurling as the vines grew and snaked towards the floor.

Carmen from Floraluna was a greenwitch.

Daphne eyed the vines, but her languid stance didn’t change. “Wow. That’s so incredibly unintimidating.”

Carmen laughed. The vines shot forward, roots overspilling their containers and moving like twisted green snakes through the room.

Several of Daphne’s minions shrieked and moved away from their leader, leaving her to fend off Carmen alone.

Daphne flicked her hand, looking almost bored, and sent several witchblades of air zipping towards Carmen’s face. The new girl blocked them with a one of her winding snakes of greenery, but the scent of torn leaves filled the air.

The boys sitting on the table perked up, and one winked at Holly before raising a hand. All five fingertips ignited with small, dancing flames. Witchfire- the proper, controllable kind, not the raging inferno I was stuck with.

The blond guy seemed annoyed that his friend had pulled a smile from Holly before he did. “Theo. We’re not playing with witchfire indoors. She made it pretty clear.”

She could only be Headmistress Gilt.

“You’re going to let Carmen steamroll someone else?” Theo watched Carmen weave her monstrosity of vines into a vaguely humanoid creature.

Daphne was clearly nervous now. She sent her witchblades flying through it

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