Power of Fire: An Academy Reverse Harem Paranormal Romance (The Broken Academy) by Jade Alters

Author:Jade Alters [Alters, Jade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

Something Else

Cece, The Broken Academy, D Wing

I stomp right past Serge out into the hallway. Part of me knows he’s trying to help, but I’m far from ready for help. All I’m ready for now is to wrap my fingers around that bastard’s throat. All I needed was three words, and I knew. Of course it wasn’t Lucidous - the voice of the man who killed my brother is etched too deep in the tissue of my brain to ever forget, to ever fade. Darius Jecks. Vampire, he said, and I knew. It was the same voice from that alleyway. You’re something else, aren’t you? He said then, maybe a week ago. In a previous life. I’ll show him something else. He was frightened at the time, so it was less distinctive than in class, but Darius’ voice has a very distinctive pitch. It’s one of few that I’ve heard that I can say has a shape. He speaks like a twisted, sickening smile. The sound of it, coupled with the flood of Jason’s blood, left a permanent brand on my eardrums. They thrummed for war the second I heard it again.

There was something else I knew though, instantly, when I heard Darius speak. At the same time I was sure he was the man - the thing - that killed my brother, I was sure there wasn’t a damn thing I could do about it. Not in a classroom full of other potentially powerful supernatural noobies. Not with Fey Hartgen and Serge hanging feet away from me. Not when Darius could, in any way, see it coming. I tried facing him head-on once. I still had parents and a brother before that. No, if I’m going to balance the universal scales of pain and loss - if I’m going to torch that motherfucker - he can’t know beforehand. I have to be stronger. I need control and surprise.

Suddenly, I’m in front of the door to my room again. While my brain treated me to revenge fantasies to quell the flame in my chest, I must have come here on autopilot. Without realizing it, my little room in D-Wing with a formless bitch and a ghost has become… I wouldn’t say home, but a default, at least. It’s more than I had before, anyway. I twist the knob and push my way inside.

It looks and sounds like no one’s here. I don’t hear the shower, and Stephanie usually bursts from an inanimate object within the first three seconds of my presence. I kick off my shoes for some much-needed alone time. Both of them hit the bottom drawer of my dresser and plop under my bed. The shockwave frightens something out from behind the unit, which also frightens me. The shadow zips out, rounds the wall, and scurries across my feet. My eyes fix on its coarse fur and long, scaly tail for half a second before it vanishes behind River’s desk. I stiffen up in my bones, muscles, hair and everything.

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