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Knight Awakened (Black Veil University Book 4), page 1
KNIGHT AWAKENED
BLACK VEIL UNIVERSITY SERIES
BOOK FOUR
B.M. CLEMTON
CONTENTS
Content Warning and Trigger Warning
Knight Awakened Playlist
Main Character Index
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
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Danielle Giordano
Maria Floresguerra
Krystal Gorrell
Rachel Chipi
Gitte Dresselaers
Corina Paulson
Miranda May
Jennifer Webb
Breen Rodriguez
CONTENT WARNING AND TRIGGER WARNING
This story is a Reverse Harem novel that has darker elements that readers should be
aware of such as strong language, sexual content, and contains
references to past physical and sexual assault.
Knight Awakened DOES end on a cliffhanger
KNIGHT AWAKENED PLAYLIST
Falling Apart- Michael Schulte
Irreplaceable- Citizen Soldier
Lullaby- Nickelback
Phoenix- League of Legends
Ruin My Life- Zara Larsson
Crazy in Love- Sofia Karlberg
Little Do You Know- Alex and Sierra
Devil Doesn’t Bargain- Alec Benjamin
If I Surrender- Citizen Soldier
I Don’t Wanna Live Forever- ZAYN
Flowers- Donzell Taggart
Rockstar- Nickelback
Play That Song- Train
Bad Things- I Prevail
Birthday Cake- Dylan Conrique
Unsaid Emily- Julie and the Phantoms
I Think I’m In Love- Kat Dahlia
Warrior- Avril Lavigne
If Today Was Your Last Day- Nickelback
Brother-Kodaline (The Covington Brothers)
MAIN CHARACTER INDEX
Danica Knight- FMC, Ractori Elementalist
Remington Moore- MMC, Wolf Shifter
Daxton Pearce- MMC, Telekinesis- Teleportation
Zander Evans- MMC, Dragon Shifter- Fire Element
Roran Kaiser- MMC, Gargoyle- Earth Element
Gabriel Covington- MMC, Reaper- Shadow Walker
Dominic Carter- MMC
Atlas Hawkins- Warlock-Shield
Dante Covington- Reaper
Joshua Walters- Blood Mage
Kayla West- Vampire
Porter Anderson- Vampire
Maverick Clements- Wolf Shifter
Solomon Abara- Angel
Alice Shaw- unknown
(FMC- Female Main Character/ MMC- Male Main Character)
CHAPTER 1
DANICA
“What's your name?” a dark-haired boy asks in a soft voice, and I shake my head, trying to form the words, but nothing comes out. “Please don't cry; it's going to be okay,” he whispers, his hand moving slowly like he's scared I might run if he moves too quickly. I hold stock still, tears trailing down my cheeks as cold magic wraps slowly around my trembling body. It matches the dark spark of magic that appeared in my chest a few days ago and soothes my magic as it curls itself around me. The boy's fingers slowly brush some of the tears from my face, and he leans down a little, his silver eyes tense, and worry is apparent on his face when he spots the bruise on my right cheek.
“My name’s Gabriel, but you can call me Riel if you want to. That's what my mom used to call me, so only special people get to call me that,” he says with a shrug.
Darkness pulls me deep as memories flicker through my mind. My skin feels like it's stretching, burning, with the amount of power rising under every inch of my body. My chest aches and I can feel my heart thump. Each slow beat brings pain with it.
Thump… thump… thump…
My memories start to swirl again, bringing me deeper into the darkness.
“Did he hurt you? I felt… Violet, look at me! Are you okay?” Riel asks in a panicked voice. Men dressed in black come in and yank me from him as I try to scream and yell. Bright silver eyes look at me with fear and panic as one of the guards punch Riel in the stomach right before the door swings shut.
No, no, no! Riel! I thrash against the strong grip of the men holding me as Riel’s dark spark of magic flares to life and yelling erupts from behind the closed door.
“Go check it out,” one of the men mutters, eyeing Riel’s door warily.
“Fuck that! He killed Byron last week for pushing this little bitch to the ground. I’m not risking that. You do it,” the other man says, his voice shaking a little.
“Shit! Fine, radio the Councilman. He can deal with the murderous bastard,” the man says as they start to tug me farther down the hall.
Thump… thump… thump…
Each slow beat brings more awareness to the pain that radiates inside me. The beat of my heart slowly speeds back up to a normal pace, and I gasp a breath, my lungs screaming with the pain of a thousand needles as oxygen filters back in.
An older version of Riel stands above me. An evil smile curls across his face as he stares down at me. “Don't worry, you won't remember a thing,” he says in a cold voice.
“That's it, Beautiful. Take another breath,” a stern voice commands, relief flooding his tone as I gasp and try to take more air into my lungs. My body aches and my limbs lay uselessly at my sides when I try to move them. I try to open my eyes, awareness slowly creeping over me, but they stay sealed, almost like they’re glued shut. Just as I feel like I'm starting to get control of my body, everything seizes. My muscles lock up, pulling the breath from my lungs as I try to scream for help.
My heart starts thumping faster and faster, then…Snap!
I can feel something break inside of me, almost like a dam that was holding a crushing amount of magic breaking free and pouring into every inch of my body. Reality crushes me in its firm grip as memories wash through my mind. My mom and her loving blue eyes smiling down at me. Dante and his god-awful testing rooms… Riel and his protectiveness. I can feel tears leak from my closed eyes, and it's not just from the unimaginable pain that encompasses every inch of my being.
I remember him! Gabriel… my Riel!
I remember the jokes he would always tell me when I was sad, his attempts to distract me from the pain that his father had caused. His small smiles as he talked endlessly and his fierce anger whenever I came to his room with injuries. The look in his eyes when the guards tried to take me away on that last day.
The day that Dante changed our lives forever.
But the memories of Riel and my mother are all overshadowed by the immense amount of magic that suddenly courses through me. Four separate strands of magic battle their way through every molecule of my body, lighting me up and making my body bow off the ground. I try to control my movements, to relax, but I'm no longer in control of my own body.
A scream tears from my lips, and I can feel my body arch as my fingers try to dig into the hard floor beneath me.
“What's happening?” someone yells and several grunts of pain are gasped around the room, my guys' bonds flaring to life inside of me. It's all so overwhelming, like I can almost feel their pain and panic alongside my own.
“Fuck!” another person yells, then starts to say something else, but it's lost in the haze of pain as more magic flows within me. The three mate bonds in my chest blaze bright, winding together as a pitch-black spark of cold magic flickers to life next to them. I gasp and feel my body shake uncontrollably as the dark magic flares and wraps around them all, calming them back to a more manageable size, before coursing through my body and soothing the agonizing pain as it goes.
“Is it an ear
“No! It's Dani!”
“Roran! Can you…”
“I’m fucking trying; she’s too strong! The whole fucking campus is being affected, not just us! Daxton, watch for anyone that might be heading this way. Anyone with earth magic will be able to tell this is not a naturally occurring earthquake.”
“Shit!”
Something loud crashes next to my head, and I hear a loud growl above me as more chaos ensues.
“Oh my God! Daxton, look!” a girl shouts.
“Where is that fucking Doctor?” a voice asks, anger tinging his tone. “Danica, you have to keep breathing, alright?”
“Do you guys feel that? What's happening?”
Four elemental strands of magic twist and turn under my skin, fighting each other and making me feel like they may burst from my very being as the dark magic twists around them, binding and anchoring them to its own essence. I gasp as the surge of magic starts to dissipate, the bonds inside me leveling out and calming simultaneously while my body stops trembling.
“She’s crying,” someone grits out. No, not someone… Zane. That voice belongs to my Dragon mate. “Comoaŕa,” he rasps, and I can feel warm fingers touch my cheek and wipe my tears away.
I want to talk to him; he sounds so worried, but my body refuses to listen to me.
“They need a hospital! Why the hell did Gabe shadow walk here and not there?” A gravelly voice snaps. I know that voice, and I don’t like him sounding this upset. I try to say something, but it comes out as a whimper, and I can hear a low growl to the right of me.
“Remington, calm down; she doesn't like you upset. Zane, no growling,” a soft but stern voice says, calming some of the commotion around us. “The Doctor is almost here; I can hear his thoughts.”
“Are you sure?” Zane’s deep, raspy voice asks with a tremble while a warm hand grips my own. Zane’s bond is wild with worry, and I reach for it, soothing it the best I can and making him sigh a shuddering breath. Everything is stronger when I wrap my magic around his mate bond; his emotions feel like my own and I feel overwhelmed with concern and immensely loved all at once.
The sudden urge to comfort him is unrelenting, and I try to push some calm into his bond, to soothe just a fraction of the inner turmoil threatening to boil over. Zane's hand relaxes on my cheek, but it takes almost everything I have to keep him relaxed. I can feel my body shutting down again, my mind drifting into the darkness as someone strokes some sweaty hair away from my face.
“Is she alright? She's not moving anymore,” a familiar feminine voice whispers at my side as cold hands dust over my forehead.
“I don't know,” Zane growls again as the darkness pulls me deeper. But I'm not scared of this darkness. It feels warm and comforting… familiar.
“Angel?”
Daxton’s smooth voice filters into my mind, making me relax even more.
“Dax?” I whisper back and a feeling of happiness and love fills me as his bond lights up even more. I can feel him in my mind, searching and looking around, like one might do when looking for an injury. It's weird but oddly comforting. After a brief moment of silence, I feel a massive amount of relief, and it takes me a moment to realize it's not my feelings that are coursing through me, but Daxton’s.
“Sleep, Angel. I'll take care of everything,” he whispers into my mind as everything goes dark.
CHAPTER 2
DOMINIC
Danica finally relaxes, her body wilting in on itself, and it takes all my self-control to stay next to Gabriel and not rush to her. She's alive, just exhausted. Bringing a Reaper back from the dead will do that to a person.
I shake my head in awe and shock as I turn my attention back to the dark-haired man now breathing on the couch in front of me. Gabriel should not be alive. I had used up the majority of my magic reserves to try and save him, yet there was nothing I could do. But then I felt a strong whisper of magic filtering into him, and it took me a moment to figure out it wasn't magic from Gabriel or me, but from Danica. Magic and life sharing are things that I have heard of but have never seen with my own eyes.
I tried to get her to stop, but in typical Danica-like fashion, she only pushed harder. Looking at Gabriel now, watching his chest rise and fall, in albeit short ragged breaths, I can't help but be happy that she did. I thought I was going to have to watch my friend and my Tether die in front of me tonight. It was the only reason I begged her to stop. Gabriel had no pulse; he was gone. I thought Danica could have pushed her entire life energy into him for nothing, and I would have lost them both.
But I was wrong, and by some miracle, they are both breathing.
I have never been so happy to be wrong in my entire life. Without Gabriel, Danica would have crumbled. Of course, she had her other bonds, so she wouldn't have died, but she never would have been the same again.
I keep my hand on Gabriel's chest, continuing to push more and more of my magic into him, watching as his breathing levels out and his heartbeat slowly grows stronger. He's not out of the woods yet, but he's alive, and that's all I need to save him.
“Dom?” Daxton's voice cuts through the shocked silence of the room like a blade, making Alice startle a little. I look over to the young Telekinetic and watch as he leans around the bulk of Zander’s body to smooth back some of Danica's dark hair from her sweaty brow. “Is he–” Daxton’s words cut off, his voice cracking like he's too scared to actually ask the question on his mind.
“He's alive,” I tell him, not moving my hand from Gabriel while eyeing the rest of the people in the room. The earthquake had stopped moments before Danica passed out, but the house looks like a bomb has gone off. Several pictures have fallen off the walls, the glass shattered on the floor around us, while other decor and books have tumbled to the ground. Several of them lay only inches away from Danica's head, where Zander is still leaning over her, sheltering her with his own body.
“Zander, it's over. Nothing is going to hurt her now,” I try to tell him, noticing that his shoulders are taut and his hands are shaking. His fingernails have changed into deadly looking claws as the beast inside him tries to protect his wounded mate. Danica had managed to soothe him a little before she had passed out. I had felt the magic pass from her to him and watched as he relaxed for those small, brief moments. Unfortunately, it didn't seem to have a lasting effect because he looks like his Dragon is about to burst from his skin.
Daxton, seeing the worry in my eyes, turns his attention to Zander and cringes a little when he sees the state that the big man is in.
“Hey,” Dax says softly, reaching out to touch Zander's shoulder but stopping a hair's breadth away when a dangerous growl rips from Zander’s throat.
Dammit, that's not good.
I flick my eyes around the room, looking for the Wolf. He was right next to Danica only moments ago, but moved out of the way when Zander threw himself over top of her. Remington and Zander seem to have a unique friendship, so he might be able to calm down the Dragon before he shifts in the house and crushes us all.
I'm taken aback when I find him crouched in front of Roran a few feet away, patting the blond man's arm and saying something to him, while Roran simply stares at Danica’s still form on the floor. Roran’s long legs are bent at the knees, his arms propped up on them, while his hands are twined so tight into his blond locks that I'm worried he's about to pull it all out. It's not Remington helping him that I find odd, but the lack of happiness or life in the Gargoyle’s flat blue eyes. Roran, despite everything he has been through, has always been the life of the party. He's always happy, always wanting to help everyone around him. This shell of a man sitting on the floor is not the Roran Kaiser that I know.
