Immortal Academy- The Complete Series

by S. L. Morgan

  “See, they’ll think Dominic failed,” Demon-Dom pursed his lips. “In a sense, it will be true, but either way, it won’t matter. The owl will not kill his precious cousin. I will resurrect all of the darkness we hid at Immortal Academy. I’ll kill all the immortals brought here and give them to your mother.” Demon-Dom smiled, “I’ve been waiting for this day.” It paced in front of where I was fighting my restraints, only to grow weaker by the second. “When I bring my powerful wolf shifters and your magic to her?” It acted like it was jolted with electricity, “Oh, I only wish you’d be alive to see it all happen.”

  “I will be alive after I kick your ass!” I said, dislocating my damn arm, trying to jerk free.

  “All in your mind, remember, Jen?” Demon-Dom laughed, “So, come at me. Oh, wait, you gave me all your power when you let your beloved alpha mate have full control.”

  Shit! Was Dom really this POS who was in my mind?

  “Physically, I was outside, but being so powerful, I was enjoying having a part of me locked up in your mind too.”

  “That shit can’t happen.”

  “Um, yeah, when you’re as evil as I am, anything’s possible. Create the perfect mate you’re drawn to and also take up residence inside your mind? It’s splendid how it all worked out. Oh, and don’t count on that bear shifter coming to rescue you from me either. I have more power than that shifter dreams to have, but you already knew that, right?” Demon-Dom smiled as he ran a fingertip along my jawline, “It was all so much fun, pulling you away from sexy Dominic, bringing you to fall for some weaker shifter…only to have you give it all up so quickly to selfishly save yourself and be with your one true shifter mate.”

  I had to get control, now. Where the hell was my inner wolf?

  Dom’s smile was eerie when those thoughts hit me. “Remember the whole, healthy wolf state? Get your wolf under control and not thinking on her own…you know, all of that information you were fed by your boyfriend?” Demon-Dom laughed. “Yeah, you probably shouldn’t have listened to that. Now, the wolf only hides behind you and your fear, which is me, and it’s sad to say, but it’s time to handle matters. Your friends will be devastated to learn Dominic tried but failed and you were lost in the merge. His wolf was just too powerful.”

  I wanted to freaking roll over and die. All of this was a dark demon sent to take whatever in the hell powers I had, unite with my cursed mom, and dominate the world? Dom was the darkness behind all of this since day one? There was no way I was going down without a fight.

  If my immortal butt just became mortal and could die because I fell for someone who I thought was my true mate, I was going to leave some kind of a mark on Demon-Dom so that Ethan would take his possessed cousin out. Ethan was the only creature I knew who would be able to take on a demon who’d absorbed my power and put that to work with the power I’d been feeling in my fake mate this entire time.

  I needed to figure out how I was going to stamp a message on this mental battle I was having in my mind with Demon-Dom and hope it transferred to the physical body of Dom so that Vannah, Ethan, and fairy godmother could pick up on how we’d all been tricked this entire time.

  I wasn’t going to crumble. I could do that beyond the veil in whatever afterlife I’d be heading to if I didn’t kill Dom after letting him into my mind like this.

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  I pushed past the emotions of losing my mate and focused on the powerful genetics in me that this creep wanted.

  Think fairies…think witches…damn it! I’m locked inside my mind, which is being invaded by a demon who’s been toying with me for years, and I can’t recall jack shit from any of my schooling in witch or fairy lore.

  When I tried to imagine that my restraints were gone, they tightened. This asshole was in full control of me, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. Maybe the godmother would walk into this room of eternal mate bonding, catch the demon named Dominic Rossi, and use Ethan to take us both out.

  I’d love to say this was a rookie move on my part, but how the hell would I have seen this coming? I sniffed out the crap going down at the academy, and I should have sensed something with Dom too—but I never did. This demon played me, and until it was killed, we were all going to pay for Jenna’s first boyfriend mistake.

  Demon-Dom—I wasn’t about to refer to this thing as my Dominic. Maybe I was in denial, but I wouldn’t accept it. I had to fight.

  A restraint was unexpectedly strapped over my neck and forehead, clamping my head against the hard table I was practically glued to. The creep walked over and took the needle, jabbed it into my arm, and flipped a switch on the machine. I watched the fluid that took Jess’s fox-shifter life start to move and forced myself to understand this was all in my head. My physical body wasn’t really going through this. This was a memory where I’d locked up that menacing energy. I could mentally get past this.

  “You could have, but you keep forgetting,” he dragged out the last word like a song. “You gave me the power—your power.”

  That’s when a low growl came from behind Demon-Dom, and it only seemed to humor the demon. “Looks like a little wolf came out from behind your fear.”

  The restraint lifted from my head, and I looked behind the demon to see my wolf, crouched and baring her teeth at him. Oddly, her eyes were my brown color, but she looked badass and ready to at least die trying to kill the creep.

  I watched Demon-Dom wave its hand and throw my wolf across the room like she was a stuffed animal.

  “That was almost frightening,” it said, turning back to me.

  I exhaled, going farther into my mind. I had to hold onto the fact that if Vannah and Ethan were at the cabin that I was about to spend the last of my shifter days in, they were picking up that their friend was losing the battle between good and evil.

  Reach out to them! I mentally ordered myself. I felt a jolt of power wash through my inner being. My wolf was still knocked out, but the power I was picking up on was stronger than this demon who was ready to take the last of who I was away from me.

  To my greatest relief, Demon Dom’s eyes were wide, and I scented the fear it held in that instant. A low snarl that gave me a bone-chilling shiver came from behind the demon.

  WTH, please tell me I didn’t manage to lock a hell hound up in my mind too.

  “You don’t have her, I do.” Demon Dom’s voice lowered into a dark, evil tone. “You’re too late.”

  I glanced over. I had to have imagined this salvation because it was Dom’s black wolf, and it had the vivid blue eyes of my wolf. I’d have thought this was part of this Demon-Dom’s next step of mental invasion, but the wolf never once looked at me.

  It was in kill mode, and it slowly walked over to where my wolf was lying unconscious after being slammed up against the wall of this creepy room in my memories.

  The black wolf never took its eyes off Demon-Dom as it ran its snout over the side of my wolf. Its appearance looked like the wolf of anyone’s nightmares. Red, blue, and silver energy swirls radiated above every part of the massive black wolf’s body.

  “You’re not real,” Demon Dom said. “There’s no way it happened or will happen.”

  The wolf’s head sank low to the ground as it prowled toward Demon-Dom. It was salivating, and growls were ripping from its chest. The thing literally looked like it could’ve been a freaking hell hound given its furious and lethal nature toward Demon-Dom.

  The restraints lifted and disappeared as soon as the wolf lunged and went for Demon-Dom’s throat. They rolled into an aggressive fight, and the wolf was relentless even through yelps of pain that came from both the demon and the wolf.

  I jumped from the table and glanced down, mentally willing those fireballs to appear in both my palms. Pink, purple, blue, and silver balls of lightning energy formed up and sparked like popping flames. I ran toward the demon only to have the wolf bare its teeth at me to back off. My inner thoughts led me to bring the energy to my wolf and revive her. Once the ene
rgy was absorbed into my wolf, she rose up, powerful and larger than I ever remembered her being. Holy hell, what was going down in my mind?

  “Draw it out!” Ethan’s dangerous, lethal voice mentally ordered me.

  Draw it out? I couldn’t expel things. Hell, I’d never heard Vannah even talk about witches or fairies doing this.

  “Go into your power, and do what Ethan said!” Vannah’s voice radiated through my overcrowded mind.

  I instantly felt a draw to siphon the thing’s energy. The black wolf was holding its own, but it needed back-up. Back-up from the fairy-witch who suddenly had the urge to pull a vamp move and start sucking up energy. Vampire moves now? This had better be a dream.

  My wolf joined the attack on Demon-Dom, and even though it was heartbreaking to watch the guy I loved getting mutilated by wolves, I had to do my part to finish this. The black wolf with vivid blue eyes was ripping this thing’s throat out, but it wasn’t dying. The evil sucker was replenishing itself after every lethal attack.

  That’s when I felt more electric energy hit me, and I inhaled as I watched a trail of electric dust leaving that thing and entering through my palms, juicing me up.

  Okay, crap, we’re doing a vampy thing…time to manipulate its mind to die an excruciating death.

  I clenched my teeth together and imagined its internal organs melting to nothing, its sinister energy turning in on itself and forcing itself out of my mind and into the world outside of my physical body.

  Before completely working to expel the thing that the two wolves had pinned to the ground, I narrowed my eyes, seeing Demon-Dom for the last time and draining him of all the energy he could have ever had. I would cry about this later, right now, this thing was about to leave my body, and hopefully, the owl was ready to finish it off.

  “Jen, I love you.” I heard Dominic’s voice echo in my mind. “I always have.”

  “Go to hell!” I growled, and then I was in control of my mind again. The evil thing I had locked up all this time was expelled from me.

  My eyes popped open to see that black dust particles had filled in the room from where Ethan had killed the demon, and his large wings blurred as the owl blew out of the top of the building. I shot up, forcing the limp body of Dominic off and away from me like it was the plague.

  I turned to see Vannah, who was staring at me with eyes wide as saucers. I tried to speak, but my body started shaking violently after what I’d just witnessed.

  “You need to shift, Jenna!” Vannah said.

  She was right. The only way I’d be able to manage my thoughts and emotions was to be in my wolf form. There was no way I could deal with the loss I felt in my current form. I needed to get as far away from here as possible.

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  I took off from the cabin, wanting to run my wolf out of the school’s boundaries and never look back. Oddly enough, my wolf—the one I worked hard to submit to follow me while I was in the troubled kids’ program—gained a mind of her own, and for the first time, she took control of me as my shifter self.

  I was stopped dead in my tracks, my wolf not budging no matter how hard I fought.

  God, don’t turn on me again. I need to get out of here!

  That’s when it all changed. My wolf was in the driver’s seat now, and I was going to be heading to an insane asylum once the school caught onto the fact that Jenna no longer had mental control over her wolf. The wolf trotted to an isolated area and laid down.

  WTH is going on?

  As soon as my wolf dropped her head, my vision changed. Holy crap, how am I seeing myself strapped to that table? My wolf was giving me her wolf eyes for a glimpse into my mind at what went down when Demon-Dom was trying to end me.

  I watched it all through her eyes like I was witnessing it for the first time. I felt the sinister energy, and through my wolf’s eyes, I saw the truth of what went down.

  It was never Dominic!

  I watched the appearance of what I thoroughly believed was Dominic fade into the most horrific creature. It was fashioned in all black, and its face was terrifying, displaying the epitome of evil. I was shocked I didn’t see through this façade the first time. It was bald with black veins over its entire face, rows and rows of razor-sharp teeth, and hollow, black eyes.

  It was never Dominic, and the sick, dark SOB played me so well that I fell for it, but my wolf didn’t. Why wouldn’t the wolf lend me her eyes when all of this was going down?

  My vision shifted again, and I saw something else. In another part of my mind, my wolf heard the chants of Ethan and Vannah, calling her to another area of my mind, far from where I was trapped with the demon.

  “She can’t be in her mind alone like this, do it now!” I heard Dominic’s voice through my wolf’s ears.

  How the hell did all of this happen without me knowing it?

  My questions were slowly being answered as my wolf continued to force me to see what she had done while I was locked up with that monster.

  She was drawn under a heavy spell—Ethan and Vannah’s chants—to Dominic’s wolf, which had miraculously entered my mind. The wolf was humble toward her, but fierce and drawing her to merge with him. I felt my wolf being called by his wolf to force a merge between the two.

  It was like my wolf knew precisely what to do, and I watched her bow her head to the strong alpha as the black wolf approached. The two wolves placed their foreheads together, and that’s when I watched in disbelief as the wolves formed their own bond, and Dom’s wolf took the power my wolf offered his. They united, and my wolf continued to pull from whatever power I had with my fairy-witch genetics, transferring it to her other half. I felt their sense of unity and satisfaction from both wolves, having desired this merge for longer than I realized.

  They had been starved of each other, and even though they were surviving without the other half of each other, they had not been able to be the shifters they were born to be. That’s when I instantly understood why Dom and I had no trouble accepting each other as true mates, and that’s when I felt the emptiness and void both wolves had suffered while being kept apart.

  Now merged as one, the wolves were fed and ready to go after the demon. That is why Dom’s wolf had my wolf’s blue eyes. She and his wolf were one and carrying mutual power. Dom’s wolf was more powerful than ever before.

  WTH…how was there enough room in my freaking mind for this all to go down?

  I felt Dom’s presence through his wolf, and the large alpha mentally took control of the situation. It’s like my wolf had been following along with plans that were made, but I never knew jack shit about them.

  None of it made sense, but it was real. I saw it through my wolf’s memories, from her own eyes. While I was sitting out here, getting a lesson in our wolves merging with the help of Vannah and E, the real Dominic lay in that bed unconscious, somehow blacked out after everything that’d happened.

  Why wasn’t Dominic in on the fight?

  As soon as I thought it, my wolf allowed me to feel him in his wolf—he’d entered my mind through his wolf, and neither I nor that demon ever saw him coming.

  I had to get back to him. My wolf gave me one last slap in the face before she released control and turned it back over to me again. I was losing Dominic—she was losing her mate—I could sense it from the distance I was at. The wolf and Dominic had both absorbed too much of my fairy-witch magic, and it was killing both of them. Good God, there was no reasonable explanation for any of this.

  All I knew was I needed to get back to Dominic, and in sensing them both taking power like this from me, I knew I had enough juice to save him. I just hoped I knew what the heck I was doing.

  I lunged out and pushed my wolf as fast as her feet could carry her, and I jumped on the closed cabin door, scratching and pawing until Vannah opened it.

  “Jenna!” she said with wide eyes. “Are you okay?” she asked as my wolf snarled past her and into the room where Dom lay in his shorts on the bed, his color now pale and d
eathly looking.

  I shifted back in that second. “I’ve got him,” I said to Lusa as she held her brother’s head in her lap, crying. “I saw it all—mostly anyway—through my wolf’s eyes. I need to help bring him back.”

  “Can you?” Lusa sniffed. “You should’ve helped him before you left.”

  “She couldn’t, Lusa,” Vannah said. “She went into shock. If she didn’t shift, she could’ve gone catatonic.”

  “Lusa,” I said, calmer than I’d imagined I could be. “I’ll get him back like he got me back from that thing on our vacation. I need to be alone with him. I’m not losing him.”

  “Lusa,” Vannah’s voice was set with her witch authority. “They need to be alone. Jenna can help heal his mind. You know how shifters work. They need to have a close connection. No distractions.”

  Lusa sighed, and then in a vamp blur, she was out of the room.

  I looked back at Vannah’s sad eyes. “I hope I can get him back.”

  “I can sense a change in his aura by having you close. Use your instincts. You know what to do.”

  Vannah let the door shut quietly behind her as I slid onto the bed, still unclothed from shifting back from my wolf. It was fine. Our skin-to-skin contact would help Dominic heal from whatever it was that took him out. I wouldn’t know until I got my man back and explanations started to take place.

  All that mattered now was me pulling him to face me and holding his limp body in my tight embrace.

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Dom’s breathing was shallow as I ran my hand through his hair, trying to use our shifter connection to bring him back to me. I brought my thoughts to nothing but the consuming love I knew I felt for him.

  I felt my energy change at that moment, feeling his closeness light a fire of determination inside me. I needed him back. My wolf needed her mate. Something was off, though, and I felt that next. The merge between the two wolves had not been done correctly, and that was part of what was taking Dom down.