Vampire Academy 4 - Blood Promise by Mead Richelle

Author:Mead, Richelle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Razorbill

Vampire Academy 4 - Blood Promise

Chapter Seventeen

Con­vinc­ing them to re­lease a Strigoi-​par­tic­ular­ly when we had him trapped-​wasn’t easy. My ques­tion­ing hadn’t made sense to them ei­ther, but they’d gone along with it. Let­ting a Strigoi go? That was re­al­ly crazy-​even for the un­promised. They ex­changed un­easy glances with one an­oth­er, and I won­dered if they’d dis­obey. In the end, my harsh­ness and au­thor­ity won out. They want­ed me as their lead­er and put their faith in my ac­tions-​no mat­ter how in­sane they seemed.

Of course, once we did let the Strigoi go, we had the new prob­lem of mak­ing sure he ac­tu­al­ly went. At first, he start­ed to at­tack again, and then, re­al­iz­ing he’d prob­ably get over­whelmed, he fi­nal­ly skulked off. He gave us one last men­ac­ing look as he dis­ap­peared in­to the dark­ness. I didn’t think be­ing tak­en down by a group of teenagers had done a lot for his self-​es­teem. He gave me in par­tic­ular a look of ha­tred, and I shud­dered at the idea of him know­ing my name. There was noth­ing to be done about it now; I could on­ly hope my plan had a chance of work­ing.

De­nis and the oth­ers got over me let­ting the Strigoi go once we made a few oth­er kills that week. We fell in­to a rou­tine, in­ves­ti­gat­ing clubs and dan­ger­ous parts of town, re­ly­ing on my sens­es to tell us when dan­ger was near. It was fun­ny to me how much the group soon be­gan to re­ly on my lead­er­ship. They claimed they want­ed no part of the guardians’ rules and au­thor­ity, but they re­spond­ed sur­pris­ing­ly well to me telling them what to do.

Well, more or less. Ev­ery once in a while, I’d see a bit of that un­hinged reck­less­ness. One of them would try to play hero, un­der­es­ti­mate a Strigoi, or go in with­out the rest of us. Ar­tur near­ly end­ed up with a con­cus­sion that way. As the largest of all of us, he’d got­ten a bit cocky and was there­fore caught off guard when a Strigoi threw him in­to a wall. It had been a sober­ing mo­ment for all of us. For a few ag­oniz­ing mo­ments, I’d feared Ar­tur was dead-​and that it was my fault as their lead­er. One of Syd­ney’s Al­chemists had come-​though I’d made sure not to be around, lest Abe find me-​and had treat­ed Ar­tur. The guy said Ar­tur would be fine with some bed rest, mean­ing he had to stop hunt­ing for a while. It was hard for him to do-​and I had to yell at him when he tried to fol­low us one night, re­mind­ing him of all their friends who had died be­fore be­cause of such stu­pid­ity.

Out in the hu­man world, dham­pirs tend­ed to run on hu­man sched­ules. Now I put my­self on a noc­tur­nal sched­ule, just like I’d been on at the Acade­my. The oth­ers fol­lowed suit, ex­cept for Tama­ra, since she had a day job. I didn’t want to be asleep dur­ing the time Strigoi prowled the streets. I

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