Page 16 of A Blackened Bond

“Can't we just stay here for a bit longer?” I turn back toward Red. “Shit was getting interesting.”

Creed rolls his eyes. “Seems you’ll be fine. Let’s move.”

Mallyn bumps me on the shoulder as he passes me, a slight grin tilting his lips as he glances back. “Don’t be so reckless.”

Aw.He missed me.

Red comes beside me, handing me my blade before wrapping my hand in hers. I put it away as Ezra takes to her other side.

“Let’s head down,” she calls, tugging me and Ez with her.

“Fine,” I sigh, squeezing her soft fingers. “But you’re mine for the night.”

A soft chuckle leaves her lips.

And forever.

CHAPTER FIVE

CREED’S POV

Students crowd around the academy’s main entrance, injured and huddled together like rodents or gathered around the faculty members crying.

This is why I couldn’t stand being in this academy for long. None of them had ever experienced an ounce of hardship, let alone our daily misery. They wouldn’t last two seconds without the security of the academy or their families.

We make our way through the groups huddled together; even in the chaos, the crowd parts with ease for us.As they should.

A faculty member calls for the first years, and begins to move them into the academy, calling for the second years shortly after.

Guess they were trying to organise things.

I look around at the mess and corpses laid out around different parts of the academy’s grounds.

This had been a shit show. Not even the faculty were fully prepared for this, and they should have been.

If it were inmydomain, they wouldn’t have gotten one toe into the parking lot before I crushed them.

A few faculty members group together and approach the beast corpses. They form their spells, and large green flamesappear and wrap around the bodies before they incinerate them and then move on to the next corpse.

A couple of the faculty separate from the rest and move toward two of the smaller corpses. They chant, casting preservation magic on the bodies before levitating them toward the training grounds.

I guess they’ll be doing their own investigation soon.

How the hell had they let all this happen in the first place? I knew they were useless, but…this was just ridiculous.

This stupid shithole was supposed to be fortified, having ‘impenetrable barriers’, and not once buttwicedid they put my people in danger.

I still hadn’t found any leads on the attack on Morgan, but this attack should give me some answers. There’s no way, with all this carnage, that someone didn’t slip up.

These attacks were obviously planned, but for what, I’m still unsure of.

But they’ve fucked with the wrong people. Dragging Morgan and the boys into this shit? I shake my head. There won’t be a third time.

I look around at the groups still left in the yard. Where the hell was Morgan? Everyone had left the dorms already, so where was sh—

“Creed!” Morgan calls, heading over with Grey and an injured Ash in tow.

I grab her as she reaches me, wrapping my arms around her. Thank god she was safe.

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