Magic Within: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy Novel (Bloodline Academy Book 1) by Ahava Trivedi

Author:Ahava Trivedi [Trivedi, Ahava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-20T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

I slowly crept into the room, my heart beating in my ears as I hoped Natalie was okay. It was too still. The doors in our room could only be locked from the inside. Unless there was no presence sensed, then it could be locked from the outside when we both left it. Natalie had gone to bed thinking we’d safely locked up and gone to sleep. It was an unsaid but obvious rule between us that one of us would check the door. It was a sly way for the academy to check that everyone was in their rooms resting. If a student was absent from their room, they’d be forced to find somewhere else to sleep if their roommate had already locked up and gone to bed.

When I’d left the room, I’d closed the door tightly behind me but had had no choice in leaving it unlocked. Valenthia had said it was some kind of kooky vampire spell the security had put in place after there had been instances of roommates that didn’t get along, locking each other inside for days on end when classes were out. In some cases, vampire students had been starved to stasis in their rooms.

I felt more unsettled with every second that passed. I’d gone off to warn my best friend of the dangers that lay within Bloodline Academy, only to leave my roommate who was also a friend, completely unprotected in my absence. I should have told her the truth and left much earlier so she could lock herself in for the night. But the academy was supposed to be safe for its vampire students. Below ground, our dorms were supposed to be virtually impenetrable.

I ran straight into our bedroom. Her bed was empty. Where was she? I went to the living room and my stomach instantly lurched. Lilith and Nyx were sitting perched on each arm of the overstuffed chair. They were so motionless that they almost blended into their surroundings but for their eyes, which were pointedly focussed on me, brimming with victory. Natalie, stood at the other side of the room, looking as unsettled as I felt.

“We were wondering where the sugar plum faery had gotten to! Your roomie here, was no help at all,” mocked Lilith.

“Tut, tut, tut, leaving your door unlocked like that when your fellow vampire was totally dead to the world. Now, that wasn’t very nice, was it? There’s a lot worse than us that could’ve…taken advantage…while you were away,” said Nyx.

“Speaking of which, where were you?” Lilith questioned like she was one of the faculty. She rose from the arm of the chair and Nyx immediately followed suit.

“None of your business,” I replied, meeting her stare. Her eyes were calm but her tone was vicious.

“Well, if that’s how you want it. Although, you might change your tune once you see what we found.” Lilith opened her palm and held out my quartz crystal. Shit. I’d hidden it deep within my bag and had made sure I’d left it concealed in an inconspicuous spot deep in the bottom drawer of my dresser.

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