All Chapters of Ashes and Bloodlines : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

Velvet didn’t come around that night.Julianne wondered if she was out again, talking with the headmistress under the moonlight with wolves swarming around. The thought of the wolves again made her question if she was really not hallucinating, but no, she had seen them, encountered them and couldn’t forget every detail about them. That night was still so vivid in her mind, and she has been doing a very good job in pretending that she doesn’t know anything, even though she is not so sure about what the headmistress thinks about her.She couldn’t trust Cassian either. Earlier, when Jordan approached her, she had seen him watching at a distance. It was like he was waiting for something to happen, or for her to do something.To think of it, Julianne hasn’t felt more human than she did these past few days. Since she came here, she hasn’t thought herself to be less of a human. The feelings she always had and the mark on her skin hasn’t appeared since she left home. It made her wonder if it

Julianne sat up in bed and had her eyes towards the window, waiting. The lights in her room were off and she sat like that for a while, waiting for Cassian to come in through her window. If it were not for Marianne, why would she be expecting a vampire to come in through her window, and that too in the night?Julianne was angry at Cassian. Keeping her little secret does not give him the permission to hunt the people around her for his own desire. Speaking about the people around her, she realized she has not seen Velvet since yesterday. Where could she be?Julianne felt uneasy thinking about Velvet. A part of her told her she was in trouble. The only person she could think of behind it was Jordan. What if he had kidnapped her and locked her somewhere?All of a sudden, she stood up and walked to the door. She left her room and headed straight to Velvet's room. As she went, it felt like her legs were the one taking her and she was just responding to it.She placed two knocks on her doo

The match ended with the blue team winning against the red team by four to one. Julianne walked down the bleachers to the field with Marianne right behind her, and Cassian, on sighting her, walked to meet up with her with his hair all damp and his shirt wet with sweat.“You lost,” she said to him.Cassian pulled his brows and raised his shoulders before dropping them. “You are strange,” he said and slid his hair backwards with his fingers. “You could have said ‘Hey that was quite a match’ but no.”Marianne tugged slightly at Julianne’s cloth, telling her that they should go. At the same time, some new faces walked up to where they were and Julianne could tell right away that they were friends with Cassian—or kinds like him.“That wasn’t a fair match,” one out of the two boys said with a frown.“When has it ever been fair?” Cassian replied him and then moved his eyes to look at Maximus who stared at Julianne like he wanted something from her.“Who is she?” Maximus asked and Julianne lo

“I like the length of your hair,” Marianne commented after glancing over Julianne’s hair since they started to head towards the boy’s dormitory.Julianne pushed the strands to the back of her ear and said to her, “Thanks.”“So, what is it you want from Cassian? Is it something he took from you? I was thinking you could report it rather than meeting his demands. He may see you as a pushover and Aurora isn’t going to back away either.”“I can’t report it,” Julianne said and pressed her lips together.Marianne stood in front of her, stopping her from walking further and she asked with concern, “Are you being threatened?”Julianne looked surprised as she didn’t expect that reaction from Marianne. She shook her head immediately and said, “I wish I could tell you right now, but I can’t. I’m sorry.”Marianne pulled her brows. “Is it something I can’t know? Something a friend cannot know? If that’s what I am to you.”Julianne blinked and felt like she was in the wrong. Does she really conside

Cassian froze on the spot and then staggered to the back a little. He raised his eyes as he looked at Julianne who now stood from the table, oblivious of what she had just done to him.“You are all the same,” she said as she blinked back the tears in her eyes. “And you all disgust me.”She left him in the room and went to get Marianne. Without knocking, she opened the door and saw her on the floor with Remus, writing something from the textbook she had been looking for. Her eyes moved to Maximus who stood up and looked behind her before asking;“What about Cassian?”“He’s in his room,” she answered and walked to where Marianne was.“I need just a minute,” Marianne said as she kept writing on a sheet that was almost full. “All done,” she said and folded the paper neatly before getting up. “You better return the book to me before Monday so I can return it back to the library,” she said to Remus who waved a hand in the air.“Let’s get going,” Julianne said and pulled her along with her.