Millwood Academy - First Term by Dawson, Tanya (i like reading txt) 📕

at the thought of them together. There’s no way he’d hooked up with a vampire. Even Clark has standards. “What about Hazen?”

She cocks her head to the side, and I wonder if she knows about Hazen and me.

“He’s a dumb fae.” She licks her lips, seductively at me.

She definitely knew about him and I. “What’s it like to fuck my sloppy seconds?” Whoa! Who said that?

“Luckily, he’s trainable.” She smirks. Her phone vibrates on a table by her bed, and Hazen’s name pops up on the screen.

I wait to see if she will answer or not, but she just stares at me with a stupid grin on her face. Not long after her phone stops, mine vibrates. The smirk on her face fades away as she grabs my backpack and dumps the contents on her bed, searching for my phone. She throws it across the room, and the screen breaks as it hits the ground.

“Nothing like the comfort of what you already know.” My mouth just won’t shut up. I was in deep now. The truth was I didn’t really care about what was going on between them, my fear was finding the boys dead somewhere.

Alexandra is still facing the bed, and the contents of my backpack spewed across it. Most noticeable is her notebook.

“Is this mine?” She picks up the notebook and flips through it.

I didn’t need to answer her. Running into a room of full-bloods seems very inviting right now. “I found it.” Technically it was true. “I was bringing it back to you.”

Her back is to me, and she’s standing still, her head looking straight at the wall. The silence is deafening. Was she envisioning ripping me apart? Surely not in this princess room.

I try for the door, but she’s much quicker than me. She slams her body against it, and her fangs extend to full length. Her eyes pitch black.

I’d hunted full-blood vampires before. But I had herbs and potions to help me. Vampire mutts I could handle. This was out of my league. “Whoa! I thought I’d leave you alone to your thoughts.” I back up with my hands above my shoulders, hoping some humor would change the atmosphere.

“My brothers are missing because they trusted you.” She came at me, her feet barely touching the floor.

She backs me up against the wall. I had nowhere to run, even If I could get past her. “They didn’t tell me anything. They just wanted me to search the professor’s desk.”

“Ivor is weak around you.” She scoffs, and tilts her head, examining my face.

“Wondering what Hazen sees in me?” I smile, she’s trying to scare me, but she hadn’t done anything to me - yet. Ivor told her to back down. Maybe I was safe as long as... I couldn’t even think about it. The vampire grew on me.

“Shut up.” Her movement is quick, and her hand is on my neck, squeezing it.

I try my best to pretend I can still breathe, but I’m guessing she knows otherwise as her grip tightens. I hear a phone off in the distance, vibrating. I can’t tell if it’s my broken phone or hers, but I knew it was Hazen. Had she told him I was coming here?

My vision starts to go first, then my hearing. It’s like I’m underwater. I hear people talking, but it’s a blur, and I can’t make out what they are saying. I feel my body slump to the floor, her hand still on my neck. It’s pitch black except for the stars. Then I hear something. My name is called, and it’s not Alexandra’s voice...

Chapter 15

My head pounds with violent strikes of pain. I try to sit up, but I’m dizzy. My eyes are blurry, and I can’t place where I am and what happened. My last memory was arriving at the vampire den.

“You have disobeyed your orders.” I hear in the background. It’s an unfamiliar voice, whoever it is, is very angry.

“She knows more than she’s letting on.” Alexandra’s angry voice grates on my nerves. “She was going to leave. I had to stop her.”

A hand gently touches my shoulder and shakes me. “Are you alright, Penelope?”

I take a deep breath and try to sit up. The man gently guides my back to help me sit up against the wall. I rub my eyes and let out a sigh at the pain that is taking over my body.

“Just take a minute.” His voice is kind and calm. He rubs my arm.

I smell the iron in blood nearby, it’s vampire blood.

“Here.” The man brings a cup to my lips, “This will speed your healing.”

Unable to move much, I don’t resist it as he tips the glass to my lips. The blood instantly warms my sore throat, and the swelling subsides. My vision clears even before I finish the glass.

“Part vampire,” The man looks back to the others in the room.

Something I knew but not how much vampire blood coursed through my veins. The blood confirms more than I thought. I’m still woozy, but with each moment that passes, I start to feel more like myself. The man stands back from me, and I’m able to see everyone in the room. The only people I recognize are Alexandra and Principal Stanton.

“She’s one of us then?” an elderly man in a wheelchair asks.

“She’s not one of us.” Alexandra, stands with her arms tightly crossed over her chest, and her eyes narrowed on me.

“She’s blood from one of the dens. We can find out which one.” The man that gave me the blood said.

“They won’t let us test her.” Principal Stanton said, “She’s just a distraction right now.”

“We can hold her or let her go.” The man in the wheelchair said, as he moves over to me. His eyes are curious at the spectacle of a mutt in their den.

“She needs to be observed for at least twenty-four hours.” Another said. “We can’t have the council coming after us for this.”

I take in a deep breath