Page 155 of Wicked Heirs

She was more similar to Orpheus.

It worried me immensely.

Hell.

I eyed the clock in my chambers.

It was time.

In the next moment, I teleported to Professor Wilhelm’s office.

I rapped on the door.

“Enter,” his smooth voice came from within.

I opened it and stepped inside.

He was sitting behind his large mahogany desk, his broad build filling out the leather chair as he sat there in a pair of designer black jeans and a gray sports jacket, his usual attire. His shoulder-length wavy, brown hair whipped around as he swung his head toward the door at my approach.

A smile tugged at his lips and he gestured at one of the two chairs opposite his desk. “Have a seat, baby vamp.”

I ignored that last part.

He’d earned the right to call a vampire only turned three years ago that.

The guy was approaching nine-hundred after all.

There was probably a little bit of a dig there too because it was well-known around the Academy that I’d refused to embrace my vampire side properly.

As I took a seat, he leaned forward and clasped his hands on his desk. “Finally, it’s happened. You’ve had the good sense to actually come to avampireto assist you, rather than a magic-wielder. After all, the former is where the issue lies, is it not?”

I rolled my eyes. “Yes, I know. I was used to—and trained to—approach things from a magic-wielder perspective.”

“It’s more than that.”

I cocked an eyebrow.

“You’reafraidof your vampiric nature.”

“I’m afraid of what it will do to others.”

“No. You’re afraid of what it will do to you.” His eyes bored into mine. “You’re afraid you will enjoy it and revel in it and you believe that will mean you’ll lose yourself in the processandyour ability to come back from it.”

Damnation,he was good.

It was like he was stripping me bare.

In the worst ways.

Although, in ways that I obviously needed.

“Yes,” I admitted. “It’s all true.”

“Good. You’re past the denial stage. It means we can get to work right away.”

“Just what I wanted to hear.”

“I’m sure it is. Based on what you told me when you asked me to assist, I can imagine now that you’ve found a way to access the level of magic that you believed was lost to you, it must be exhilarating. We’ll see to it,butyou must be willing to understand the part of yourself that you’ve spent years repressing to the point of pretending it doesn’t exist, outside of feeds, of course.”

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