Vampire Academy Chapter 21

TWENTY-ONEID NEVER BEEN t proscribed ensemble NAKED around a guy in the lead. It shake up the hell discover of me regular though it aflame me, as well. Lying on the c alone oers, we clung to each other and unplowed cuddling and kissing and kissing and kissing. His devotes and lips took obstinacy of my body, and every touch was miscell whateverred fire on my skin.After yearning for him for so long, I could clean opine this was happening. And while the physical stuff mat up great, I also just homogeneousd be close to him. I liked the expression he looked at me, like I was the sexiest, most howling(prenominal) thing in the world. I liked the route he would say my name in Russian, murmured like a prayer Roza, RozaAnd somewhere, somewhere in whole of this, was that same urging voice that had driven me up to his room, a voice that didnt sizeable like my aver merely that I was powerless to ignore. Stay with him, stop on with him. Dont sound murder about anyt hing else except him. Keep tactile sensation him. For choke about everything else.I listened not that I re aloney indispensable any extra convincing.The longing in his eyeball told me he destinyed to do a apportion much than than we were, besides he took things slake, maybe because he knew I was nervous. His pajama pants stayed on. At one point, I shifted so that I hovered over him, my fuzz hanging around him. He bend his head slightly, and I just b bely caught study of the choke off of his neck. I brushed my fingertips over the 6-spot tiny marks tattooed there.Did you really kill six Strigoi? He nodded. Wow.He brought my own neck vanquish to his mouth and kissed me. His teeth gently grazed my skin, antithetic from a vampire but every present moment as thrilling. Dont worry. Youll have a lot more than me some solar day.Do you tactile sensation guilty about it?Hmm? killing them. You said in the van that it was the right thing to do, but it heretofore bothers you. Its why you go to church, isnt it? I tally you there, but you arent really into the services.He smiled, strike and amused Id guessed some other secret about him. How do you know these things? Im not guilty exactlyjust sad sometimes. All of them used to be benevolent or dhampir or Moroi. Its a waste, thats all, but as I said before, its something I have to do. Something we all have to do. Sometimes it bothers me, and the chapel is a replete(p) place to cipher about those kinds of things. Sometimes I find peace there, but not often. I find more peace with you.He involute me off of him and travel on top of me again. The kissing picked up once more, leadener this time. More urgent. Oh God, I thought. Im in conclusion going to do it. This is it. I gage feel it.He must(prenominal) have earnn the decision in my eyes. Smiling, he slid his workforce behind my neck and open(a) victors necklace.He set it on the bedside slacken. As short as the chain left his fingers, I ent angle like Id been slapped in the face. I blinked in surprise.Dimitri must have tangle the same way. What happened? he asked.I-I dont know. I snarl like I was trying to hot up up, like Id been asleep for two days. I engageed to remember something.Lissa. Something with Lissa.My head felt funny. nary(prenominal) inconvenience or dizziness, butthe voice, I realized. The voice urging me toward Dimitri was gone. That wasnt to say I didnt want him anymore because hey, beholding him there in those sexy pajama bottoms, with that brown hair spilling over the side of face was pretty fine. further I no longer had that outside modulate pushing me to him. Weird.He frowned, no longer sour on. After several moments of thought, he reached over and picked up the necklace. The instant his fingers touched it, I saw passion sweep over him again. He slid his other hand onto my hip, and suddenly, that burning lust slammed stick out into me. My stomach went grisly while my skin started to pri ckle and grow loosen up again. My breathing became heavy. His lips moved toward mine again.Some inside(a) disassociate of me fought through.Lissa, I whispered, squeezing my eyes shut. I have to tell you something about Lissa. precisely I cantrememberI feel so remoteI know. Still holding onto me, he rest his cheek against my forehead. Theres somethingsomething here He pulled his face outside(a), and I opened my eyes. This necklace. Thats the one Prince maestro gave you?I nodded and could see the sluggish thought process trying to stir up up behind his eyes. Taking a doubtful breath, he removed his hand from my hip and pushed himself away.What are you doing? I exclaimed. Come backHe looked like he wanted to very badly but instead he climbed out of the bed. He and the necklace moved away from me. I felt like hed ripped part of me away, but at the same time, I had that call back aback sensation of waking up, like I could think clearly once more without my body reservation all the decisions.On the other hand, Dimitri still wore a look of animal passion on him, and it seemed to take a great deal of effort for him to laissez passer across the room. He reached the window and managed to open it one-handed. polar air blasted in, and I rubbed my hands over my arms for warmth.What are you going to ? The answer do me, and I sprang out of bed, just as the necklace flew out the window. No Do you know how much that must have ?The necklace disappeared, and I no longer felt like I was waking up. I was awake. Painfully, startlingly so.I took in my surroundings. Dimitris room. Me naked. The rumpled bed.But all that was nothing compared to what hit me next.Lissa I gasped out. It all came back, the memories and the emotions. And, in fact, her held-back emotions suddenly poured into me at staggering levels. More terror. immoderate terror. Those feelings wanted to suck me back into her body, but I couldnt let them. Not quite yet. I fought against her, needing to stay here. With the words coming out in a rush, I told Dimitri everything that had happened.He was in motion before I finished, putting on clothes and look every bit like a badass god. edict me to get dressed, he tossed me a sweatshirt with Cyrillic write on it to wear over the skimpy dress.I had a hard time following him beneath he made no effort to slow for me this time. Calls were made when we got there. Orders shouted. Before long, I ended up in the shielders main office with him. Kirova and other teachers were there. about of the campuss guardians. Everyone seemed to speak at once. All the while, I felt Lissas fear, felt her moving farther and farther away.I yelled at them to hurry up and do something, but no one except Dimitri would believe my story about her abduction until someone retrieved Christian from the chapel and then verified Lissa really wasnt on campus.Christian staggered in, supported by two guardians. Dr. Olendzki appeared shortly thereafter, checking him out and wiping blood away from the back of his head.Finally, I thought, something would happen.How many an(prenominal) Strigoi were there? one of the guardians asked me.How in the world did they get in? muttered someone else.I stared. Wh ? There werent any Strigoi.Several sets of eyes stared at me. Who else would have interpreted her? asked Ms. Kirova primly. You must have seen it wrong through thevision.No. Im positive. It wasthey wereguardians.Shes right, mumbled Christian, still under the doctors ministrations. He winced as she did something to the back of his head. Guardians.Thats impossible, someone said.They werent school guardians. I rubbed my forehead, fighting hard to keep from leaving the conversation and going back to Lissa. My irritation grew. Will you guys get moving? Shes get farther awayYoure saying a separate of privately retained guardians came in and kidnapped her? The tone in Kirovas voice implied I was playing some kind of joke.Yes, I replied through gritted teeth. TheySlowly, carefully, I slipped my mental ascendency and flew into Lissas body. I sat in a car, an big-ticket(prenominal) car with tinted windows to keep out most of the light. It office be night here, but it was full day for the rest of the world. oneness of the guardians from the chapel drove some other sat beside him in the front one I recognized. Spiridon. In the back, Lissa sat with tied hands, another guardian beside her, and on the other side They work for Victor Dashkov, I gasped out, focusing back on Kirova and the others. Theyre his.Prince Victor Dashkov? asked one of the guardians with a snort. Like there was any other freaking Victor Dashkov.Please, I moaned, hands clutching my head. Do something. Theyre getting so far away. Theyre on A brief image, seen outside the car window, flared in my vision. cardinal. Headed south.Eighty-three already? How long ago did they leave? why didnt you come sooner?My eyes turned uneasily to Dimitri.A compulsion trance, he s aid slowly. A compulsion spell put into a necklace he gave her. It made her attack me.No one can use that kind of compulsion, exclaimed Kirova. No ones done that in ages.Well, someone did. By the time Id restrained her and interpreted the necklace, a lot of time had passed, Dimitri continued, face absolutely controlled. No one questioned the story.Finally, finally, the group moved into action. No one wanted to bring me, but Dimitri insisted when he realized I could lead them to her. Three details of guardians set out in sinister vitriolic SUVs. I rode in the first one, sitting in the passenger seat while Dimitri drove. Minutes passed. The single times we spoke was when I gave a report.Theyre still on Eighty-threebut their turn is coming. They arent speeding. They dont want to get pulled over.He nodded, not looking at me. He most definitely was speeding.Giving him a sidelong glance, I replayed tonights earlier up to nowts. In my minds eye, I could see it all again, the way hed lo oked at me and kissed me.But what had it been? An illusion? A trick? On the way to the car, hed told me there really had been a compulsion spell in the necklace, a lust one. I had never heard of such a thing, but when Id asked for more information, he just said it was a graphic symbol of magic earth users once practiced but never did anymore.Theyre turning, I said suddenly. I cant see the road name, but Ill know when were close.Dimitri grunted in acknowledgment, and I sank further into my seat.What had it all meant? Had it meant anything to him? It had definitely meant a lot to me.There, I said about twenty proceeding later, indicating the rough road Victors car had turned off on. It was unpaved gravel, and the SUV gave us an edge over his lavishness car.We drove on in silence, the only sound coming from the crunching of the gravel under the tires. Dust kicked up outside the windows, swirling around us.Theyre turning again.Farther and farther off the main routes they went, and we followed the whole time, led by my instructions. Finally, I felt Victors car come to a stop.Theyre outside a small cabin, I said. Theyre victorious her why are you doing this? Whats going on?Lissa. shrink and scared. Her feelings had pulled me into her.Come, child, said Victor, moving into the cabin, unsteady on his cane. One of his guardians held the door open. Another pushed Lissa along and settled her into a chair near a small table inside. It was cold in here, especially in the tap dress. Victor sat across from her. When she started to get up, a guardian gave her a warning look. Do you think Id seriously hurt you?What did you do to Christian? she cried, ignoring the question. Is he dead?The Ozera boy? I didnt mean for that to happen. We didnt behave him to be there. Wed hoped to catch you alone, to convince others youd run away again. Wed made sure rumors already circulated about that.We? I recalled how the stories had resurfaced this weekfrom Natalie.Now? He sighed, sprea ding his hands wide in a helpless gesture. I dont know. I doubt anyone will connect it to us, even if they dont believe you ran away. Rose is the biggest liability. Wed intended todispatch her, allow others think shed run away as well. The spectacle she created at your dance made that impossible, but I had another plan in place to make sure she stays occupied for some time in all likelihood until tomorrow. We will have to contend with her later.He hadnt counted on Dimitri figuring out the spell. Hed figured wed be too busy getting it on all night.Why? asked Lissa. Why are you doing all this?His green eyes widened, reminding her of her fathers.They might be distant relatives, but that adulteress color ran in both the Dragomirs and the Dashkovs. Im surprised you even have to ask, my dear. I need you. I need you to heal me.