Read Online Blood Will Tell (Warriors of Ankh #1) by Samantha Young - Free Book Online

me that way, young lady. Your mother might put up with that language but I certainly won’t. Now what the hell are you doing home from school?”
    Without knowing what possessed her to, Eden found herself telling him about Lucy, although she cut out the stuff about Amber and just said the girl was trying to bully her. To her utter surprise, Ryan was smiling when she finished.
    “ It’s only natural.”
    Eden grimaced. “To nearly kill a girl at school?!”
    Her father grinned even more wickedly, the dimple in his cheek flashing just like Eden’s did when she was in a good mood. “No. To lose control, to feel irrational anger. You’re ready for the Awakening Ceremony, Eden. Your body knows that, it’s trying to tell you that, and you have to do something before you lose control over it.”
    Maybe that’s why she’d told him. Because she needed someone to confirm what she really didn’t want to know. “OK,” she whispered.
    His face brightened. “Really. You’re agreeing to it?”
    “ I don’t want to kill anyone.”
    “ Well you’re going to have to kill someone, Eden,” his voice hardened.
    She shivered, knowing he spoke the truth. “I know. I mean I don’t want to lose control.”
    He nodded. “For once you sound like my daughter.”
    Eden threw him a disgusted look and he laughed. “You can hate me all you want. I never asked for your love. I do ask for you loyalty, however, and doing this Awakening Ceremony will prove that to me.” He heaved a sigh and pinned her to the bed with a demanding look. “I also ask discretion from you. What happened today cannot happen again.”
    “ I compelled her to forget.”
    “ Yes. But someone could have happened upon you attacking that girl. And there are people… who would realise what you are.”
    Eden frowned, pulling herself up into a sitting position. “What do you mean?”
    Ryan nodded, as if he were coming to a decision. “I never told you before because there was no need, but there are a group of people, humans, who hunt our kind.”
    Suddenly her heart was begging to jump out of her chest. “What? Wh… how…?”
    “ These humans call themselves the Warriors of Neith. Their sole duty in life is to kill off the Blessed. They call us soul eaters,” he spat out the phrase. “Filthy. They have no understanding of us, no respect. They think themselves superior to us and they stop at nothing in their mission to wipe us out.”
    Eden couldn’t believe what she was hearing. How was it even possible she had gone seventeen years not knowing there were warriors out there who would kill her in a second? “Does Stellan know? Should I take this seriously? Can they hurt us?”
    “ Yes. Yes. And yes.” Ryan nodded, his expression severe. “I’m telling you about these men and women now because if we are not circumspect, they will find us, and they will hunt us, and they are strong enough to do damage.”
    Realisation suddenly dawned. “The goons? The bodyguards… you sent them after me because of these Neith guys, right?”
    Ryan nodded and stood up. “You now need to be aware of them, Eden. I hope now that you are, you will be more careful.”
    She jerked her head in a vague affirmative, still too numb from the shock of discovering there were people out there who thought the Blessed so evil they actually killed them for a living. “Wait…” She glanced up at Ryan, a flare of panic in her chest. “Warriors of Neith? As in the goddess?”
    His jaw clenched tightly. “Yes.”
    “ As in… created by her?”
    “ Yes.”
    Clutching her stomach to hold down the nausea, Eden looked away from Ryan. God, they were so evil a goddess had created a race of humans to take them out. Awesome.
    “ Eden?”
    “ What?”
    “ I’m glad you’ve agreed to the Ceremony. Trust me… when it’s over… this… whatever this bizarre human thing you’re going through is… it will disappear forever. All this… unnecessary pain you’re feeling… you won’t