Immortal Academy- The Complete Series

by S. L. Morgan

  Dom’s lips were tight when he approached me and took my shoulders in his hands. “No, no. Not at all. Your eyes are back to normal, but your pupils are hugely dilated.”

  I pulled out of his embrace and darted toward the mirror. Thankfully, my brown eyes were staring back at me, and I watched as my pupils began to slowly constrict more and more, bringing them back to normal.

  “Well, they’re brown again, but they’re maybe a bit more sparkly than they were before,” I said, examining my eyes in the mirror.

  Dom ran his fingers over my shoulder while staring at my reflection. “I think it’s safe to say you might be coming into a bit more control of your power than I thought. I wasn’t thrilled at the fact that you had to do that, but you did it without turning yourself into a beaver, so that’s good,” he teased.

  “I think I’ve pressed my luck with this magic enough for the time being. I really don’t want to have to use it again until I get some help,” I said, turning to face Dom.

  He reached down and pulled me to a tight embrace.

  “I agree. Let’s hope no more fairy juice is needed for the time being,” he said, pulling back to face me. “Now, why don’t we see what clothes there are for you to wear, and then we can go face my parents.”

  I followed Dom to the closet, ready to see what this day was going to bring. All I could do was hope things went better with Dom’s parents today.

  Chapter Nine

  Dom and I walked into the dining area as everyone—including Edgewater—was sitting down for lunch.

  “Nice of you both to finally join us. I figured I would have to send my specialists out to search for two runaways from IA,” Edgewater said.

  “Well, if you were accurately doing your job, you would have located us in Aspen, having breakfast,” Dom said, leading me to the chair I’d sat in at dinner. Dom’s mom sat across from me, and Edgewater was in her place from the night before.

  Edgewater’s dark expression followed Dom as he sat to my left. “Funny, I had the specialists scour that town this morning.”

  “Then they suck at what they do and should be dismissed from IA like you were.”

  “That’s enough, Dominic,” Mark Rossi stepped in, swallowing a bite of food and studying his son. “I hoped your attitude from yesterday would have been changed since you were able to spend your entire evening alone with Jenna.”

  “Jenna,” Kate held a plate of roast and potatoes toward me, “eat up, hun. You look starved.”

  I took the plate and smiled at her curious expression. “Thanks, I am.”

  “From all of the time that you’ve been unaccounted for, I would think you’d both spent an intimate evening alone, and your wolves—”

  Edgewater was silenced when Mark slammed the wooden handle of his steak knife down onto the table. Dom started to speak, but the glare his dad gave him made even my wolf cower.

  Mark looked over at Edgewater. “I told you that topic would not be brought up again in my house,” he growled.

  “I don’t see why you have a problem with it.” Edgewater smiled like the alpha didn’t look like he was going to rip his heart out. “They’re committed, in love, and we all see how Dominic feels for this shifter. Jenna is quite special herself.”

  “Why don’t you keep your opinions about Jenna and me to yourself,” Dom snarled. “Jen and I aren’t going down that road. Sorry if that ruins your or IA’s unstable reputation.”

  As a low, growling argument began between the alphas attacking the dean, I looked over at Kate’s angered expression, then my surroundings abruptly changed. Their voices faded, a sharp pain stabbed right in the center of my head, and I heard voices from behind me.

  I blinked a few times when everyone was suddenly gone from the dinner table.

  I shifted in my chair and turned back to where I heard the sound of my dead father’s voice.

  Holy shit. What the hell kind of vision is this?

  Beyond the dining area, where I was seated, was a room where I saw Dom’s dad, a little black-haired boy, and the man I remember being my father. It was like I was watching the past.

  “You have no right to suggest that what Julia and I did was wrong or that our child will cause problems with supernaturals,” my dad shouted at Mark. “You are my closest friend. I’m disgusted that you would say such a thing.”

  “Daddy?” the little black-haired boy called out. “What’s wrong?”

  “Nothing, son.” Mark reached down and picked the toddler up. “Kate, come get Dominic.”

  I watched Kate rush in and reach for young Dominic. “Here, sweetie,” she said as she ran her hand over his hair and then eyed Mark and my father darkly. “Both of you will leave this alpha nonsense outside of my home, and keep it away from my children. This whole conversation is over. Julia and I have talked, and all will be okay with her daughter.”

  “Leave before I say something to you that I regret, Kate,” Dom’s dad snarled.

  “You and I will discuss things later when we aren’t in the presence of our friends or children,” she responded in a lethal tone as she marched out of the room with her son on her hip.

  “You know this will affect my son,” Mark returned with a lower voice to my dad. “You and Julia were warned. Did you think you both were above what you were told?”

  “Insult my daughter or my wife one more time, and this friendship ends here and now.”

  “This friendship ended the day Jenna was born. Do you need to be reminded what happened to House Silvers after they brought in multiple-hybrid children like you have?”

  “I don’t need a reminder about how my entire pack was sought out, slaughtered, and burned in their immortal bodies, because you all feared that their power was above your own.”

  “You do remember that all of them—all of them—were possessed, and the darkness took over their powers. You can’t procreate powerful beings like this and get away with it.”

  “Are you suggesting House Silvers had a motive?”

  “Why else would vampires, fairies, and witches desire to find love with the alphas of House Silvers?”

  “I will not have this conversation with you,” my dad snapped.

  “Now my son will be affected, because your offspring has already shown traits of being my son’s true mate when they reach the age for it to happen. I won’t allow it, and that’s why the oracles have been called in.”

  “You bastard. They will kill Jenna.”

  “I won’t allow that. In fact, I will personally ensure that sweet child will not be punished because of her parents’ irresponsible actions. She will be safe, but I will not allow her to become my son’s mate. This whole situation is ludicrous. They’re too young for either one of us to sense that fate wants them together. Hell, fate shouldn’t have even made its mind up about that yet, but it has, and it ends now.”

  “You are a selfish man, Mark. Your interest is not your son’s well being, it’s your son assuming his place in House Braeclaw and the fear of your house falling as well.”

  “I don’t care what you think my motives are. You, Julia, and your child are no longer welcome in my home. The oracles will do whatever they must to end this. I only hope the darkness doesn’t come for your wife.”

  “She’ll be safe. I’ll protect her and my daughter with my own life.”

  “You say that now, and only because you both went underground and hid from the supernatural elite forces. Now, you have an innocent child born with genetics that will only serve the darkness, and she will be the end of all of us.”

  “You will see. My wife is stronger than you think.”

  “Your wife may be a strong blend of fairy, witch, and vampire,” Dom’s dad seethed, “but you know damn well that your daughter will be the death of Julia and of you. This is bigger than either of you. Now, leave my house. I want nothing to do with you or your family, Silvers. I won’t stand by idly and watch this take place.”

  “I am sorry for you, Kate, and the children,” my d
ad responded. “You’ve called in the oracles and God knows what else by doing this.”

  “Leave.”

  “I plan to. One day you might appreciate our friendship and accept that Julia and I are soulmates and our beautiful Jenna is a product of our love. Nothing bad could come from what Julia and I have.”

  “Your Jenna is why I will work hard to make sure my son stays far away from you and her. He’ll forget, and if he doesn’t, I know the oracles will help him forget. You may have ruined your family with the child, but you will not ruin mine.”

  “Your family, huh?” my dad turned back from where he had started to leave. “So, tell me then, who slaughtered the orphaned owl’s parents?”

  “You haven’t figured that one out yet?” Mark’s eyes were now silver-brimmed with fury. “Your precious House Silvers was the cause of the owl shifters’ deaths. How in the hell did you not know that?”

  “They were never around them.”

  “That’s what your pack told you?”

  “They would never lie to their alpha.”

  “Then that’s where you have failed as their alpha, Julia’s husband, and Jenna’s father. You’re naïve, you’re ignorant, and even when given the truth, you won’t believe it?”

  “My house would never have taken out two owl shifters! Why don’t you look into your own issues and what you brought into House Braeclaw by marrying a vampire?”

  “Darius Edgewater has nothing to do with this.”

  “Oh, but he does,” my dad said through his teeth. “That leprechaun is behind a lot of things you don’t know about. How is it you have no idea that man went to the dark witches for power to destroy supernaturals?”

  “Darius is an idiot, but he’s not that dumb. Witches despise leprechauns, you and I both know that. My wife’s cousin has nothing to do with the death of Ethan’s parents.”

  “Believe what you want. Who is the naïve one now?”

  “Darius was with us the night of their deaths. He also knows that witches would never help him gain dark powers. Even if that is something Darius was senseless enough to do, I’d have already sniffed out his motives. The only darkness I sense is whatever is following your wife.”

  “What the hell are you talking about?” my dad asked.

  “You can’t feel it, can you? Just from being with such a powerful creature like Julia, she’s already weakened one of the strongest alphas known to our kind.”

  My dad silenced and stepped back. “If that is true, then the oracle is the only chance at saving my family.”

  “How in the hell have you not felt or seen this?” Mark asked. I could hear sadness and sympathy in the man’s voice for the first time. “You must leave. Take your wife and Jenna. I will do my part to ensure that our children never find each other. It has to be this way, or they’ll both end up in your and Julia’s shoes.”

  “All these years…” my dad started then stopped himself. “Farewell, Mark. For our friendship’s sake, I will work with the oracle that is sent to make sure both of our children are safe.”

  “I do hope you will. Ethan’s parents’ death will never be forgotten. I suggest you keep my nephew in your thoughts if you have a change of mind about Dominic and Jenna ever crossing paths.”

  “If they do?” my dad questioned.

  “I’ll let the oracle make the decision how best to keep them apart. Until then, you need to leave.”

  My vision dissipated, and it felt like my heart had stopped beating. My hands were shaking, when I blinked a few times I could finally see that everyone at the table was watching me.

  “Jen?” Dom said, his hands covering mine. “Something in that room over there that we’re not aware of?”

  I pulled my hands from Dominic’s and eyed his father as he studied me intently and swallowed hard.

  How the hell did I tap into that residual energy? Mark Rossi has hated me since the moment I was born! My family couldn’t have killed Ethan’s parents. God, no! This doesn’t make sense.

  I gripped my head and knew I had to get out of this house. I felt the energy grow dark to match the color of Darius Edgewater’s freaking leprechaun eyes. Sneaky bastard was stronger than I thought. I could swear I had him nailed down. He can’t be a damn leprechaun, that asshole can read minds…only witches had that talent. I had to admit the obvious, this dean was dark like my dad said in that vision. He’s juiced up on some potent and sinister magic if he’s mind reading fairy.

  “Jenna,” Dom’s voice was low when he rose up to meet me. “Did it feel real?” Dom asked, and I knew he was in my thoughts. “What did Edgewater do?”

  “What’s going on with both of you?” Mark asked. “Quit speaking about Darius as if he’s not family,” Mark snapped and rose up with Dom and me.

  “He isn’t my family, and now I know exactly why I have always hated him.” Dom looked at his dad, “I just can’t figure out why you let that dark witch of a leprechaun in our home all these years.”

  “Dominic,” I heard Kate, but my mind was overloaded. “Stay. I will explain while the men leave.”

  “There’s nothing to say. Jenna is upset for a reason, and she needs to shift. We’ll return for dinner. IA can send someone else to babysit us while you do everything in your power to replace that man, and keep him as far away from Jenna and me as you can,” he said as he looked at his dad.

  “You will both sit down immediately, and explain to me what’s going on,” Mark boomed.

  My throat was so dry I couldn’t speak if I wanted to. I wanted to scream, cry, punch a hole through the wooden table for everything I’d just heard and seen. I never had visions like this. My magic was waking inside me so fast that it was overwhelming. If Mark knew who I was this whole time and had demanded the oracle separate Dom and me for life, then God only knew what he felt right now.

  I looked over at Edgewater’s weird, curious expression. Shit! I looked at Dom, who was ignoring every word coming out of the mouths of those questioning us at the table. His silver-rimmed eyes told me the wolf and he were intently listening in on my inward feelings and thoughts. I had to leave…run away from the school, Dom’s parents, Edgewater, and anything else out there that knew the history of House Silvers.

  Oh, my God. I wasn’t just some mysteriously powerful shifter. I was marked for death.

  Chapter Ten

  A surge of energy came out of nowhere, overpowering my wolf’s reaction to what seemed to be my enemies at this table. Dom reached for me, and I heard him inhale as if he’d absorbed the strength that was surging throughout my system.

  I looked over at Mark. “You knew my dad,” I said in a steady, yet lethal tone.

  “He and I were good friends, yes,” Mark answered, his eyes probing through mine.

  “Jenna,” Kate tried to interrupt again. It was apparent the atmosphere of the room was rising quickly to a dangerous level.

  “You’re an asshole,” I managed to tone down everything I wanted to say to the man. Something deep inside me told me that Edgewater, and the stupid expression he wore on his face, had no idea the fallout that happened between my dad and Mark. “You’re not…” I stopped myself. I had to get out of here. I immediately sensed Edgewater trying to pull the knowledge out of my head.

  “Are you scared, little wolf?” he taunted.

  “Darius,” Kate glared at him. “You’re best to remain silent until we can get Jenna calmed some.” She looked at me. “Sweetie,” she stood, “Dominic is right, you need to shift. Your eyes are as fierce as the wolf’s right now.”

  “She’ll calm down once we get her back to school. Dominic can stay here with you,” Edgewater said.

  “Excellent idea,” Mark said. I could sense the asshole knew I was as good as dead when I got back to school.

  “Jenna stays with me,” Dom demanded in his alpha voice.

  “She’ll do as instructed, son,” Mark ordered. “Edgewater, I think returning the girl to the school will help with whatever has her so upset. Obviously, she
has issues with my family.” He looked at Dominic, “If you hadn’t noticed, your girlfriend looks like she’s ready to kill all of us, and for no reason.”

  Dom stiffened. “I can sense that, and I don’t blame her for feeling that way.”

  Dom caught my hand and turned to leave. “Out of my way, or you’ll be the first victim,” he snarled at some IA specialist.

  The guard went to reach for me, and Dom went into attack mode. Before Dom could get the jump on the guard, he was stopped by his dad, distracting me from defending myself next. Now, I was in some death grip, and a device was locked around my neck, paralyzing me.

  My inner wolf snarled, but it felt like my magic silenced the wolf even though I could feel the power to dissolve the device then and there. It’s like my magic was taking control to conceal myself from the dean I wasn’t prepared to go up against.

  “If you don’t put me in that damn car with Jenna, I promise you this will be the last time you see me,” Dom growled at his dad.

  “Kate, compel him and take him to his room. Dominic and I can talk later when he’s in a better frame of mind.”

  “And just what do you want me to compel our son this time, Mark?” she snapped. “Those days are over. All of this is done.”

  I was being carried out of the front door when I heard feet shuffling behind me, and the argument between Dominic and his parents faded away.

  I wanted to use the powers I felt brewing in me, but intuition told me to save it. It was almost like Vannah was whispering in my ear to keep it in check, or I was dead. So far, Edgewater didn’t know my history. I could clearly sense that in him. It was also plain to see I was heading back to IA so he could to find a way to drag it out of me.

  I had no idea what the hell to do, but self-preservation told me to leave the magic hidden—my hidden weapon—and I would be safe.

  I was shocked when I was seated between two large immortal witches, and the next thing I knew, we were blasting out of the Rossi’s Aspen home. Strangely enough, Edgewater wasn’t in the SUV with us.