Graduating (Covenant College Book 5) by Amanda M. Lee Read Free Book Online Page A

power over me. You have no power over the people I love. If you come near them, if you touch one hair on any of their heads, I’ll go after you. And, when I say I’ll go after you, I mean I’ll wipe every trace of you off of this campus.”
    I didn’t look back when I left, but I knew that Blake’s gaze on my back was murderous while I exited. Hey, he’d wanted to “clear” the air. This was all his fault.

Six
    “I can’t believe he did that!”
    I was sitting in the living room with Kelsey and Paris, everyone catching up on a new episode of General Hospital , and waiting for their righteous outrage to mirror mine. It didn’t take long.
    “How can you be surprised?” I asked, sipping from a can of diet soda as my eyes flicked over the television screen. “This is just par for the course where he is concerned. I’m now convinced every time I’ve been in one of his classes, it’s because he orchestrated it that way.”
    “Even the first one?” Kelsey asked.
    “Especially the first one,” I replied. “He knew who I was before I came to this campus.”
    “How?” Paris didn’t look convinced.
    “I … well … I’m not sure,” I admitted. I’d told Kelsey and Paris about my conversation with my parents, so they were up to speed on my life, but Paris had a point. How could Blake know when I didn’t know? It’s not like my parents had told him, let alone anyone else. It seemed impossible that he could know.
    “I think Blake was interested in you at first because of that whole Dog Man legend up there,” Paris said. “That’s when he first noticed you.”
    “He still figured out I was a mage before anyone else,” I said.
    Paris tilted her head to the side, considering. “Did he? Because, from where I’m standing, I think Will was the first one to figure it out.”
    Huh. “What makes you say that?”
    “Well, we’ve found out that supernatural beings are drawn to you,” Paris said. “We didn’t know why at first, but now we do. I think Will might have been the first one to suspect something was going on, and he told his fraternity brothers because he thought that would give him some power in their hierarchy.”
    “I don’t know,” I hedged. “It seems to me, if he knew what I was, he would have fought harder to hold on to me. That night I walked out, he seemed relieved to let me go.”
    “That’s true,” Paris said. “We know Rafael knew there was something different about you from the beginning. Aric was drawn to you right away, too. Maybe they didn’t know why they were drawn to you, and it really did just kind of spill out.”
    “That still doesn’t explain how Blake found out,” Kelsey said. “Try and think back. When was the first time you knew he suspected something about you?”
    I leaned back on the couch, closing my eyes and searching my memory. “I can’t be sure,” I admitted. “I think it was the first time he took me to the Academy because he wanted me to join. He still acted weird before that, though.”
    “Maybe he just thought you were a good recruit,” Paris offered. “You did grow up around werewolves. And, yeah, you didn’t know it, but he might not have believed anyone could spend eighteen years up there and not know it.”
    “So, you think he was convinced I was a liar and not an idiot,” I mused.
    “Maybe,” Paris said. “Or, maybe he did figure out you were a mage early on for some reason we don’t understand yet. He just might not have figured out that you were the mage. You know, the one who could turn people to ash by touching them.”
    “That actually makes a lot more sense,” I said. “There’s no way he could know the specifics of my situation.”
    “I don’t think he knows even now,” Kelsey said. “Rafael modified his memory. You said there was a lot about that night he didn’t seem to remember. I’m guessing Rafael erased that whole glowing-eyes thing, and maybe a few more little tidbits.”
    “Well, Blake knows he did