The Roses Academy- the Entire Collection by Tara Brown

Author:Tara Brown [Brown, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780463874875
Publisher: Tara Brown
Published: 2018-11-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Captive

Ophelia

Oliver’s fingers traced their way up and down my arm. I wanted to be somewhere alone with him, instead of on babysitting duty. We were becoming closer in all the ways guys and girls got closer. He kissed me in the shadows of all the creepy places we went. He confessed his love for me more than he said anything else.

And I believed him.

It was crazy.

But it was also right.

There was no denying the contentment I felt being with him.

But Giselle was feral and he had made her that way.

It was weird to see. She was the most beautiful girl in the world, and yet she was completely taken by her hunger. She could be seducing every guy in the world and living it large. Instead, her dark eyes darted around the small room like a nervous crackhead.

She moaned from the hunger and curled into a ball.

I glanced up and whispered, “Why is it so bad for her? Are all succubi this brutal?”

“No,” he whispered back. “She still has the blood lust from being a vampire. She remembers what it was like to eat blood. She’s been biting the people she’s sucking dry. So, she’s still getting blood from them while taking their essence. Being a succubus is intense enough on its own. The transformation can be brutal but she has withdrawal and the change going on.”

“Do you share feelings with her the way Dorian and Aimee do?” Their impossible connection was so obvious I could taste it in the air when I was around them.

“Yeah.” Oliver didn’t take his eyes off her.

He stared at her and I got lost in him.

He was so beautiful, even in the dark. I couldn’t help but think about him in a way that I shouldn’t, considering the age difference. But he had me mesmerized.

“Oliver, we have a situation,” someone interrupted our silence.

We both lifted our heads to find Marcus standing in the light of the open door. He watched us with his dark eyes glowing. Clearly, he’d just eaten.

My stomach twisted when I saw his eyes. Sometimes when I looked at him I could hear his thoughts. Thoughts of draining every drop of blood from my body. He made me blush and cringe at the same time. Fortunately, Henry would die defending me. I didn’t know him, but I knew that fact. Mostly because Marcus thought it.

Marcus was creepy.

“A situation. Great.” Oliver stood and followed after him. I hurried behind them down the hall of the huge creepy old castle. It was weird there was a castle in Portland that no one had listed as one of the tourist stops or put on TripAdvisor.

The hall was wide and filled with old pictures. Old paintings. I'm pretty sure I'd seen a few that resembled Marcus, Dorian, and Aleks, but in costumes.

I wondered if in two hundred years I'd be walking through my own castle with Oliver and the walls would be lined with paintings of me in Forever21 tee shirts and skinny jeans.

“Where are we going?” Oliver demanded after a minute of walking and no explanation.

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