Of Beasts and Blood: A Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance (Arcane Arts Academy Book 3) by Elena Lawson

Author:Elena Lawson [Lawson, Elena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-29T05:00:00+00:00

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This time, Granger didn’t stop classes. She thought it was too important that the students begin the Magical Defense lessons. But she excused Kendra and Sasha from returning to the academy, as well as the dead girl’s boyfriend.

Thankfully, I was excused from attending the announcement assembly where she told the rest of the students who’d returned to the academy from their weekend at home. Telling her had been hard enough.

She was already in her office when me and the guys went up and had greeted us with a warm smile and a bright and cheery good morning, what can I do for you three? before she saw the looks on our faces. She hadn’t even heard a word and already she’d sunk down into her chair. As though she knew she should be sitting to listen to the information we were about to give her.

It was chaos after that. The Arcane Authorities were called back in. And Cal and Adrian were asked to wait in Granger’s office while they took care of the body beside their home. I waited with them, and to the chagrin of the overseer, refused to leave their sides during questioning.

I vouched for them and told the overseer to contact Martin at Rosewood Abbey. He could attest to the time we left. The girl had been there in the dirt long before we ever returned to the academy—judging by the crusted blood on her neck and hair.

Granger couldn’t corroborate my story, but she also insisted Cal and Adrian had nothing to do with it, which didn’t stave off all suspicion but seemed to help.

I was a bundle of nervous energy when we finally had to go our separate ways. After her body was analyzed, and our alibi checked out, we were free to go, but not before the overseer warned that he would be seeing to it that my familiars were removed from the grounds.

Granger assured me he couldn’t do that, not without council approval since she was the only one able to make decisions about who was and wasn’t allowed on the grounds.

But the whispers that followed me back to my room had me thinking that maybe Cal and Adrian should be removed from the premises. Since not all the students had returned in time for the mid-morning assembly announcement, the ones who came later were subjected to the broken telephone version from the other students.

Maybe I should send them back to the Abbey. It would be better than them being taken in by the Arcane Authorities, and certainly better than to trial like all the whispers suggested. But before I could even fully form the thought, I shut down the idea. They would never leave. Not after another student died.

“They should be put down,” the same asshole who’d fist-bumped his buddy after the first death said, and it was clear he was trying to project his voice enough so I could hear it clearly as I passed. I clenched my fists and my jaw, resisting the urge to set my magic loose on him.

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