Dark Angel Academy (The Complete Series) - G. Bailey Page 0,70

angels in class?” Ren asks Miss Flete. She drops the angel like food onto the floor, and her cries make my heart hurt as I feel Ren looking at me, but my eyes stay on the angel woman who slowly passes out. Most likely to die soon. “Miss Lightson, come with me. Miss Flete, get the angel to a vampire healer and don’t do this shit again.”

Henry nods once at me, and I lift my head, trying not to flinch as I step over the angel wing in the middle of the desks and to Ren, who holds the door open for me. I’m somewhat thankful for the escape but not enough to tell Ren that.

“I would like to take you to the library to show you some books I found on vampire soul mates and the truth of the past,” he explains, standing way too close. My body aches with every second I’m around him, fighting the desire to be closer and the desire to hit him with something for hurting me.

“And why would I want to read that?” I question, crossing my arms. I kinda want to read it.

Ren sighs. “Tell me how to fix this, Kaitlyn. I’ve fucked up, but this is my second chance at life, and I want to live it with you. Give me a chance.”

“You bit me without permission, Ren! You made me a vampire!” I snap. “And then to make things worse, you lock up one of my closest friends when he was injured. Thallon could have died down there!”

“You never told me of your relationship with this Thallon,” Ren counters. “I am not a mind reader, Kitty Kat.”

I glare at him. “This isn’t my fault, Ren.”

After a tense silence between us, Ren holds his hands up. “Let me just take you to the library. You can take the books back to your room, skip the class for the day, and in return, you will eat dinner with me tonight. I will also give your Thallon back his day job as a gardener and offer him my full protection if you come to dinner without argument.”

“Dinner?” I almost laugh. “Are you insane? Do vamps even eat?”

“Yes, many things,” he teases. “Come on, one dinner. You came back here for a reason, right?”

I nod, knowing that telling him the real reason I came back here was to be a spy for the angels and try to kill him wouldn’t go down well. I don’t want Thallon to be stuck in my room forever and unprotected, and Ren damn well knows it.

“Brilliant. I will be outside your room at eight. One second,” he informs me before disappearing into shadows.

“Wait! I didn’t say yes!” I shout at nothing but the greenhouse. Turns out vamps are just as good at disappearing acts as angels are.

Go figure.

Ren reappears, the shadows whipping around him before disappearing into the floor, and in his hands are two small books. “Here you go.” I take the old leather books and fold them into my chest as I cross my arms. “I hope we can fix this. The book will explain what happened, and I swear I’m not a monster. Not anymore. Not since I met you, Kaitlyn.”

“A monster isn’t a monster to himself. Everyone who wrongs him is,” I say, stepping back. “And Ren? Nothing you are doing here is good. Ask any angel...you are a monster to them.” I turn around and walk away before I say anything else.

I can’t believe I once trusted this vamp.

Chapter 37

“How are you?” Thallon asks me as I sit on the bed at his side, taking his hand in mine. I’m so happy he is awake and talking, and Henry said his leg is healing really well. It hurts my heart to see him like this and know there isn’t much I can do about it. Like Thallon can read my thoughts, he shakes his head. “I made my choice not to be a dark or light angel, and if I was, I would be healed. Maybe I made the wrong choice. I can’t protect you like this.”

I tightly smile. “Thallon, you can’t make a decision like that for me. It has to be for you, and you don’t want to be either. Do you?”

“I used to say no...but then I never wanted an eternal life with anyone.” He pauses, searching my eyes. “Things have changed now.”

My heart could do a dance with how fast it beats. I lean closer to Thallon, gently stroking