Pillage & Plague (Mount Olympus Academy Book 2) by Kate Karyus Quinn & Demitria Lunetta & Marley Lynn

Author:Kate Karyus Quinn & Demitria Lunetta & Marley Lynn [Quinn, Kate Karyus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733666732
Publisher: Little Fish Publishing
Published: 2019-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

21

Val continues sitting with Tina after I get to the room. We stay clear of talking about anything personal—including the fight he just had with Nico. Instead he politely thanks me for telling him about Tina being sick, and I fill him in on Fern’s plan.

It’s all sorta stilted and awkward with both of us aware that even sick, Tina would kill me if she knew about that kiss.

Finally, not wanting to draw any suspicion upon Tina, Val leaves to go about his normal routine. I promise to let him know if Tina’s condition changes.

That night, in her delirium, Tina tells me more than she ever would if she were well.

“My father, the hypocrite, always told us that being pureblood vampire was important. That we could never, under any circumstances, let anyone know the truth.”

“What is the truth?” I ask gently.

She laughs weakly. “The truth is that our mother was a mutt. A bit of shifter, a bit of nymph, a bit of vampire. She had no pedigree. No connections. But she was very beautiful. My father took her into his household as a pet. He dressed her up like a doll and showed her off at parties and well, things became complicated.”

“When she got pregnant my father’s wife wanted her dead. But father had no children yet, so he convinced her to wait until she gave birth. Maybe he loved my mother. Maybe not. But when Val and I were born, he looked the other way when his wife murdered our mother and took us as her own.

“I think my father’s wife does love us in her own way. We call her Mother, but she doesn’t understand us. She wants us to be just like her. But we’re not. Even when we were children, nothing was ever good enough—especially when our other characteristics would show.”

“Like you turning your hair green,” I muse.

“And I talked to plants, like, all the time,” Tina says. She clucks her tongue at Vee, who turns its trap…what I’ve come to think of as its head, toward Tina. “If they were thirsty they would tell me, and I’d….”

Tina blinks, as if suddenly remembering who I am. She tells me to bring her water. But it’s too cold. Then too warm. I go back and forth at least six times and then she takes one sip and says she’s not thirsty anymore.

Ordering me around seems to put her back in a better mood, though, because as she leans back against her pillows (and actually mine too—she demanded it and when I objected said that it would be too bad if borrowing my pillow turned out to be her dying wish), she continues her story.

“So, my father made sure we learned how to be perfect vampires. They wanted to fool everyone. They wanted to fool themselves most of all, I think. When we were young they tried to keep our birth mom a secret, but I always knew we were different. ‘Mother’ told me the truth when I was five years old.

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