The Rock's of Beauty by Meghan Escott (books for new readers TXT) 📕

go onto land again.”
“You want me to feed from you? It will hurt you very badly.”
“I would go through any pain to save my precious Damita.” Murray said and kissed my forehead.
“I'll only need a bit. I have some blood on land.” I told Murray before temptation took over me and I bit into his wrist and sucked. Murray's blood tasted different. Completely different to every other blood I had ever drunk.
It tasted like normal blood and then there was a kick at the end that tasted like the sea. It was a lovely after taste and it was slightly addictive and I had a feeling that I would be drink more of Murray's blood.
Murray let out a growl that I could only describe like an animal so I let go of him and heal the bite I had made on his wrist.
“Thank you my king for giving me the blood I needed but now I must return to land now.” I said to Murray and kissed him on his cheek. I gave him a small smile and then swam away from him with my guards behind me and swam back up to the cross between land and the rocks. I swam up to the rocks and hoisted myself onto them again. “Same instructions again boys.” I called down to Morgan and Alexander and then got out of the water and back onto the land.

Chapter Seventeen

I sat on the highest window in the hall, directly opposite the Murial on the wall that I had drawn. I saw my drawing of my mark shining with the blood I used to draw it. I smiled to myself and continued to write about my experiences in the water and with Murray.
I drew blue butterflies all over the front of my new notebook and drew the sea shining from the light. I smiled to myself and continued writing what happened on the two experiences I had had when I had gone in the water.
I looked at my arm and drew a finger up the cut that Murray had made the first time that the water had engulfed me. I kissed the cut and licked the blood off of my lips.
“Lucy?” Sam called up to me from the floor.
“I'm up here.” I called down from the top window. I slid off the ledge that I was balanced on and fell the distance down to the floor. I landed on a table with a loud and echoing crash. I lifted my head and moved my fringe out of my face to look at Sam.
“You have blood on you're lips.” Sam looked at me and then looked to the cut on my arm which had started to drip. I hid my arm behind my back and wiped the blood on the back of my shirt. Sam frowned. “Are you sure that's okay?”
“Yes. I'm sure. What time is it?”
“Nearly time for class but you need to come with me to see The Head.”
I read his mind and he was playing with his shirt button and I instantly knew he was nervous.
“I have to turn more people.” I said bluntly into the silence and my sentence reverberated around the halls tall ceiling.
“Just one more. They'll all be spread out. But that means you'll have more drawings to do.”
“I don't mind as long as I still have time to go to the water and spend time with...”
“With who? I knew it. There's someone else, under the water that you want to be with.” Sam was shouting at me now and it echoed around the hall. “What's his name?”
“His name is Murray and he is the king of the water and he's teaching the ways of the water. I need to learn and quick so I can integrate into the life down there.”
“Fine. Go back to him and the water. I'll turn you're person and she'll be with me and I'll be looking after her. She'll be better off.”
I exploded with anger. The bell rang and people started entering the hall. I screamed in rage and clicked my fingers. My anger was so strong that it impacted on my transportation. The fire that surrounded me covered all the tables in the hall and shot up the walls. Sam got caught in it and I could see him start to catch fire as well as some of the students who had started to walk in.
I landed next to the sea and I stripped off all of my clothes and dived in, creating a bikini for myself as I entered the water. Morgan and Alexander were waiting for me as I had instructed and I turned to them and released my anger.
“You will not follow me today. I will swim alone. Do you understand?” I shouted at them. They nodded quickly and then swam away from me. I swam to the nearest rock and I collapsed gracefully onto it.
I was crying and cutting myself with my long and sharp nails when Murray and his guards found me.
“Leave.” He said to his guards and they swam away from him after giving him a quick nod. “Damita? What is wrong?” Murray asked me and took me hand. I yanked it away from him and continued to cut myself. He grabbed my shoulders and shook me resulting in a very jagged cut rather than a smooth straight line. “Damita, you must stop. The enemies will smell your blood and will come for you. You will not be strong enough to....”
Murray's voice droned out as my eyes rolled back and I started having what I could only describe as a vision.
I was in a room with a stone table in the middle and there was a man strapped to it. It was Sam. The Head and other people that I didn't recognise were holding him down – even with the straps, he was coming off of the table. He was screaming and blood was pouring from his eyes from where he was crying uncontrollably.
Save her. She must be saved.
The Head said and then a man came into my view and blocked it.
My eyes rolled forward and I saw Murray looked at me with serious concern.
“I know I have just arrived but I must return to the land Murray. Something is happening up there and I'm seriously involved with it.”
“You must stay for a few minutes longer. Drink some of my blood and then I will let you go again.”
I shook my head and started to swim off in the direction of the land. Murray grabbed my arm and pulled my back to the rock. I screamed in anger again and shot a spell at him. He didn't have his guards so it hit him straight in the chest. He was flung backward and smacked to the floor. His two guards came swimming out from a hidden spot and started to help him up. I started swimming and managed to get on the land before Murray caught up with me.
I clicked my fingers as I was running and the fire engulfed me and my dripping hair and took me to the room where Sam was.
It was just like I had seen. Sam was being held down by now eight people and The Head was shouting but I shouted over him.
“Who has to be saved?” I shouted and everyone looked in my direction apart from Sam and Angela who was looking after him like I should have been doing.
“You. You have to be saved.” The Head replied.
“From what? I am perfectly fine.” Everyone raised their eyebrows and looked down at my arm. I followed their eyes and looked to my arm which ha multiple cuts which were now dripping blood off of my fingers. “What are you doing to him?”
“Retaining him. He is having a vision.”
“I know. I can take over from here though he may not be too happy with me.” I walked over to Sam and slit my neck and put it to his mouth. He bit hard and The Head winced while I stood and screamed. When Sam began to drink, he didn't resist the straps he went still and drank.
When I pulled away, he relaxed as much as he could on the stone and then opened his eyes. He looked at me and I saw pure anger and hatred. The guards had already untied the straps and Sam was already sitting up and swinging round his arms. I turned towards the wall where the door was and I tried to use vamp speed to get there and out but Sam was already there when I turned.
I started to back away from him and pressed myself against the wall. Sam smiled at me and walked up to me.
“You slut.” Sam shouted at me and got hold of my neck and punched me across the face. I fell to the floor and The Head and Eric who seemed to always appear when I was in trouble, came over to us and pulled Sam off of me.
“No, leave him. I'll get what I deserve.” I said to them and then got up as they walked away. “And he will get what he deserves.” Sam looked confused but looked terrified when I started muttering words to myself. I blasted the spell at him and I saw people who were in the firing line move out the way of my blast.
I hit Sam in the middle of his chest – the best place – and interweaving cuts started to cut through his clothes and through his skin. Sam winced and then came at me again.
“Leave it.” I said to Eric who was starting to go to Sam. He looked at me and nodded and then Sam was on me, hitting me, slapping me, anything he could do to hurt me. I was in so much pain during the episode that I didn't realise that my tattoo was changing and a new one appearing,
“You went to the water. You went to see Murray and do all sorts of shit with him. I know what you're doing with him and soon everyone will know what a slut you are.” Sam was shouting at me while he was hurting me.
“She's been faithful.” The Head shouted and Sam stopped. “Eric, get him off of her.” The Head pointed at me. Sam was yanked off of me and I sat up and leaned against the wall. Eric to Sam to The Head and then came over to me and helped me up.
“How do you know that I've been faithful?” I asked The Head still holding onto Eric's hand.
“Do you really think I would let our most gifted student into the Water or any element for that matter without keeping an eye on her? I've been in your head for weeks now, monitoring you and recording. Lucy has not been unfaithful Sam.” The Head explained and collapsed again as