Bloodline Secrecy

Bloodline Academy Book 2

Lan Chan

Copyright © 2020 by Lan Chan

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All names, characters, groups and events portrayed in this book are fictitious, and all opinions expressed by the characters, whose preferences and attitudes are entirely their own. Any similarities to real persons or groups, living or dead are coincidental and not intended by the author.

Cover by Christian Bentulan

Editing by Contagious Edits

Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

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1

They say you should never meet your heroes. That same rule should apply to meeting your friends’ families. You know, in case you open your big mouth and comment that there are no low-magic users on the Council. I was too stupid to heed any of the rules. Sophie tipped her nose up in the air as we stepped through the portal and landed right back onto Bloodline Academy’s portal field.

“I can’t believe this is happening,” she hissed. The portal flared again. A teenage girl’s worst nightmare stepped out: Her parents.

We trudged back to the dorms. Her mum glanced around at the sorry state of our room. I tried to kick the pile of dirty laundry under the bed, but she had a practiced eye. Lucky for me I wasn’t her biological spawn. Though you would never have known it based on the skin-peeling glare she threw my way.

“Thank heavens we decided to move,” Nora said to her husband. “These girls are practically living in squalor.” Sophie imitated being hanged behind their backs.

“Don’t be like that, dear,” Mani said. “They’re teenagers.” His interest was piqued by the stack of books I had on my bedside table. The one on top was The Beginners Guide to Binding Spells.

“Is this for Basil?” Mani asked as he picked it up and rifled through the contents. Basil wiggled out of the pocket in my backpack. I set it down on the bed so he wouldn’t have to jump to get to the floor.

“Fat lot of good it has been,” Basil said. “Beginners indeed.”

“It’s got a lot of stuff about history and the restrictions behind soul binding but not a lot about how to practice it,” I said.

“I should think not,” Mani commented. He replaced the book and glanced at Sophie’s bedside table. She promptly cut his focus by stepping in front of the plethora of makeup.

“Can we talk about this?” she asked.

“There’s nothing to talk about, Soph,” Nora said. She was standing in front of the mirror. At the moment, it was just being a mirror. She fluffed the roots of her mass of midnight black curls. Tapping on the glass, she tried to get into the MirrorNet, but it wouldn’t materialise. That garnered an approving nod. “At least we know they’ve got adequate security measures on this thing.”

“Do they?” I asked. Since there were parents in the vicinity, I unzipped my backpack and suitcase and absentmindedly tried to unpack my stuff. “I mean, two unauthorised guests just appeared through the portal and there’s been no alarm so far.”

Mani gave me a cheeky grin. That’s where Sophie got her smile from. It was all dimples and flashing white teeth. “Ah, you forget that we were students here too.”

“A thousand years ago,” Sophie muttered under her breath.

“Besides,” Mani continued, pointedly ignoring his daughter, “who says we’re unauthorised? Nora put through a request for teleport last night.”

Sophie made a tortured sound and flopped back on her bed. “This is not happening.”

“We have discussed this at length,” Nora said. She put her hands on her hips. I’d only been staying with them for three weeks, but I knew what that tone and stance meant. Sophie turned to me. If looks could kill, my teeth and fingers would be boiling in a cauldron right now.

“Please don’t do this, Mama,” Sophie pleaded. She got up on her knees and clasped her hands in front of her in supplication. “Pleeease.”

The pleading only seemed to cement Nora’s resolve. “The decision has been made. Besides, it’s for your own good. We’ve spent too long at the bottom of the supernatural pile. It’s about time someone did something about it.”

“Somebody should! Just not you guys!”

“We’re not having this discussion again, young lady. Now, get this place cleared up. We’re going to see your headmistress and then we’ll be back to take you to the Reserve.”

Mani threw us a pitying look as he followed his wife out the door. I let out a breath after they were gone.

“I’m going to kill you!” Sophie said. A teddy bear launched through the air and narrowly missed my head.

“How was I supposed to know they’d take it this far? You should have told me how suggestible they are!”

She put her pillow over her face. For a second I was worried she was trying to suffocate herself until she screamed into it. “This is so embarrassing.”

“It’s not that bad.”

“Easy for you to say, your parents aren’t moving a stone’s throw away to try and campaign for a low-magic representative to be added to the Council!”

I picked at my nails. It had been almost six months since I’d seen Nanna. I would give anything to be embarrassed by her again. “Lex...”

“It’s okay,” I said. Basil came to sit beside me. He rested his mitten hands on my wrist. I got up and dumped my suitcase on the floor beside my bed. The demon