Dark Angel Academy (The Complete Series) - G. Bailey Page 0,51
could trust. Betrayal claws deep into my heart as I turn around and look at the balcony outside this room. Walking outside, I push the glass door open and stand on the edge of the balcony, looking down at the skies below. Deep clouds, beautiful rain and endless night are all I can see. I’m in a tower, and nothing and no one is going to stop me now. I look over my shoulder at my beautiful wings.
I may be an angel.
But now…now I fall, and I won’t save myself. Climbing on the bannister of the balcony, not one bit of fear trickles into my soul as I jump and let the cold air of night swallow my scream.
Welcome to Angel Academy. The only way to leave is to fall.
I’m Kaitlyn Lightson, and I haven’t got a clue what I am anymore. With Angel Academy fallen into the hands of the vampire coven, hiding on earth seemed like a good plan.
Until he finds me.
What I am is the least of my problems. Instead, what is happening to my friends at The Angel Academy is more dire. Thallon, Vesnia, Henry, and even Riley need my help.
The angels need a spy.
So I’m going to make a deal with my devil, the man with more than a little bite to his harsh nature.
Death and seduction are the angels’ tools in the game, but it turns out vampires play with worse things.
Like love…
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Lift your wings.
And show them how much hell an angel can cause.
-Wisteria Andrews
Chapter 29
Wind whips past my ears as I endlessly fall, the academy long lost in the distance above me, like a star I’ve misplaced in the sky. The cold air is a welcome rest from the aching of my body and the pain I feel so deeply in my heart and soul. I’ve changed. Everything about me is different, and I can sense it without having to look in a mirror. I’m not just an angel anymore. I’m not human, and I’m not vampire…I don’t think. I have no frigging clue what I am, but one thing is sure, I won’t get help at the academy. Falling is my only escape, my only way to get away from him and what he did to me. My thoughts are jumbled as I carry on falling, knowing I should use my wings to help catch me, but I don’t have the strength anymore. My whole life, I’ve fought and hidden my secret…hidden that I can see ghosts and I was never like the normal kids.
The difference is…I had Riley at my side. My best friend. My saviour who fought off the bullies who called me names and told me I was weird. He was always at my side, always fighting in my corner, and now I’m alone, betrayed by everyone who I trusted more than my life. Trust is a fragile thing, and once broken, who knows how to fix it again. I would be better off falling to the earth, being lost and dead like I should have been before I was turned into an angel.
I can’t trust anyone. Not even my family, because if I can see ghosts and only the bloodline of the most powerful vampires can see ghosts…it means more secrets have been kept from me. Has my whole life been a giant fat lie?
The very fact is I’m not sure if staying alive is a fate worse than death at this point.
“You must not die, Kaitlyn Lightson. I chose you in the darkness and gave you a second life. You belong to me, your soul is in my debt, and you do not have the choice to freely give it away.”
I gasp, looking around me but seeing nothing, only clouds, the night sky, and feathers flickering off my wings into the air around me before the wind whisks them away. I’m alone. I know I am. The voice felt like it was in my head, like a voice I’ve heard before, and I wonder if I’m losing my mind and conjuring new voices to speak to me in my final moments. I would laugh, but sadness has a choke hold on my heart, pounding into my chest and squeezing tight. I soon see that I’ve fallen through the portal to earth, spiralling endlessly and forever on my way down. The wind is a little colder here, but the night sky seems the same, as the stars never change, and they are my company for now.