Blood Debt Academy
This was the First Vampire at full strength, no longer weakened by two thousand years of imprisonment.
And right now, he was the only reason I wasn't dead.
"How many?" I shouted over the chaos. My hand found the dagger Raven had given me—it felt pathetically small against what we were facing.
"Too many." Cael moved like liquid violence, faster than I could track. He tore through three creatures in the time it took me to blink. "The Old Court brought their entire guard. They're not taking chances."
A creature with a face that kept shifting between human and something else lunged at me. I slashed with the dagger, my dhampir strength making the blow count. Black blood sprayed across the floor,