Dark Angel Academy (The Complete Series) - G. Bailey Page 0,64
“Killing you when you give me permission to won’t fix what you did to me. I want my friends.”
“Henry, you are now in charge of Kaitlyn’s protection. You know where her friends are, correct?” he asks Henry, who bows his head before answering. I almost laugh, shaking my head slightly. Oh how the “king” of the academy has fallen to a ghost.
“Yes, sir,” he answers. “I will take Kaitlyn to her friends if you wish it.”
“I do,” Ren answers, and without another word, he turns around, walking to the door to the academy and leaving me alone with another one of the guys I think I fell for who betrayed me.
Chapter 34
Henry and I stare at each other in silence for a long time, and I almost wish he would talk first. It’s definitely not because I want to hear his voice. And it’s not because I need to hear him tell me the truth or because I long for everything we used to have together.
And lying to myself is key to my resolve today, it seems.
Henry Ravaric has never scared me. He was my undoing from the first moment we met. The so-called king of The Angel Academy.
And he has fallen.
“There are answers if you will let me explain, darlin’,” Henry’s voice rolls over me in such familiarity and longing it makes my knees weak. If I weren’t so stubborn, I would let him explain. Maybe. The months I was changing or whatever happened to me before I woke up haven’t changed Henry all that much, but yet, everything has changed. His black hair looks that much softer as the locks curl around his forehead just above his burning eyes that look like embers flicker within them. Henry’s confident demeanour hasn’t changed, but he feels less reckless, like he has nothing hanging over his head making him want to give up.
Crossing my arms, I walk right up to Henry, who seems a little off guard to have me so close, but he doesn’t back away. I think it would break my heart if he did, but I’d never let him see it. I’m stronger than he thinks. “Because you fought Riley to try and stop him throwing me in the white fire, I will speak to you, but we aren’t going back to what we were before. You knew about Ren, so you knew I could see ghosts, and yet you lied to me.”
“I never lied,” Henry firmly replies, searching my eyes. “You never told me about Ren either. My secret was just as big as yours, because my fucking life depended on it. I just met you, and I still wanted to tell you everything, throw everything away because—”
He halts, swearing under his breath and turning around. Because of what? “Come on, darlin’. If we are lucky, we can catch Vesnia before class.”
I have to jog to keep up with Henry’s large strides towards the academy, and when we get to the doors, he holds one of them open for me. Maybe Henry has a point, we both did lie to each other about big things, and it seems Henry has a reason just like I did. Honestly, it all feels pointless at the moment. I slip inside after him, and my feet nearly come to a halt when I see how the academy looks so much the same, yet the students are anything but. Men and women around our age in modern clothes, who I assume are vampires, hold gold chains leading to angels following behind them. The gold chains are wrapped tightly around the angels’ necks, where there are plenty of bite marks on most the angels I see, and all of them look rough in clothes that have seen better days. Bonnie is the first angel I really recognise, but she is anything but the bitchy girl I used to know. She doesn’t even look up as she is dragged behind a tall woman with red hair.
“What the hell?” I whisper, and Henry reaches back as most the vampires turn to look at me, and the look he gives me tells me that he doesn’t agree either. Henry’s hand wraps around my arm, and he drags me through them and into the greenhouse which is emptier than that room was.
“The new rules at the academy are harsh. Angels are slaves to vampires now, and each vampire has an angel slave. Ren got the idea from The Demon Academy who did similar to wolf shifters,” Henry