Spearwood Academy Volume Three (The Spearwood Academy Book 3) by A.S. Oren Read Free Book Online

credit, and he was kind enough to do it for you.”
    “Wait, you’re the actual Romulus from Roman Mythology?” I ask.
    “Of course, what parent today would name their child Romulus?” asks Vex.
    Romulus frowns. “This is about last night isn’t it?”
    “I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ll be back in a little while with your food. You’ll be receiving the best off the menu.”
    Vex slams the door open and walks out. I wonder what he did to piss her off.
    “I’m sorry. She’s acting like that because of me. I will return later with your food. Please, pull the rope over there if you need anything before then.” I look to the rope hanging down near Triton and Horace. I didn’t even notice it until now.  He leaves also.
    “Is it really possible for him to be thousands of years old?” I ask.
    All of them nod. “None of our kind our quite that old, but there are ones even older than Romulus. Vex is older than him by a thousand years at the least,” Bullock says.
    “How do they stay looking our age? Even the Ancients look old.”
    “I can’t speak for Romulus, but I assume he is in the same boat. Vex is cursed. Agnita is a collector of sorts. She likes to have valuable and rare things. Vex is a mermaid. She used to be able to go between both the sea and land freely, but when Agnita joined the Colonists, Vex’s father sent her on land to retrieve her and bring her back to the sea. Vex battled with Agnita and lost. Ever since then she has been cursed. She can’t leave New York, or get in the sea until her contract with Agnita is up in another thousand years. Unless she can break the curse.”
    “So that’s why she was excited to see you. She thought you had figured out how to break the curse and get her out of here.”
    Bullock nods. “I have figured out how to break her curse, but I haven’t told her yet. She’s not going to like it.”
    I sit foreword. “What will break it?”
    “A kiss from someone born on land, her true love.”
    I scoff. “True love’s kiss? Seriously?”
    He nods again. “Agnita is known for writing that into all of her curses. Spearwood had a lot of books on her. Several of them have been broken with that. Perhaps she’s a hopeless romantic.”
    “Could it break my curse?” Could true love really be the cure? It just doesn’t seem possible.
    “I don’t know. I don’t know anything about the gypsy queen that cursed the females of our kind. You are the first one to be born in centuries. I’m sure if there had been others before you, it would have been broken by now if that was the case.”
    “Why aren’t there more females like me? If our kind is populated by 99.9% of men, how are new dragon shifters being born?”
    Dante grins at me. “Well, Fire, when a man and a woman…”
    I shake my head. “Don’t even try to go there.” I smile though. It’s the first joke he’s cracked in what feels like forever. “I’m serious though. What are your mothers like?”
    “They’re human, if that’s what you’re asking,” Horace says.
    “I figured that.”
    “It’s different for everyone. Some have mom’s that are full human, not an ounce of supernatural ability. Others are from other species: shape shifters, mermaids, demi-gods, fallen-angels… you get the point. There are also the ones that have their gender changed,” Triton says.
    A twinge of ire raises in me at the sound of his voice, but I force it back down. It must be left over from the other Avalon; even though we are now all one whole personality. “Are they different from normal transsexuals? How are they able to physically have children?”
    “The magic of our world can do a lot of things. Including changing the gender of a person who truly wants it. They become the body they would have had, had they been born that gender, working insides and all. The magic can only be performed once and the person must want the change with every fiber of their being,” Paden says.
    I give him a soft