Lalla

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
EIGHT
NINE
TEN
ELEVEN
TWELVE
THIRTEEN
FOURTEEN
FIFTEEN
SIXTEEN
SEVENTEEN
EIGHTEEN
NINETEEN
TWENTY
TWENTY-ONE
TWENTY-TWO
TWENTY-THREE
TWENTY-FOUR
TWENTY-FIVE
TWENTY-SIX
TWENTY-SEVEN
TWENTY-EIGHT
TWENTY-NINE
THIRTY
THIRTY-ONE
THIRTY-TWO
THIRTY-THREE
THIRTY-FOURTHIRTY-FIVE
THIRTY-SIX
Acknowledgements

Last Sacrifice
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VAMPIRE ACADEMY novels by Richelle Mead:
Vampire Academy
Frostbite
Shadow Kiss
Blood Promise
Spirit Bound
Last Sacrifice

This is dedicated to Rich Bailey and Alan Doty, the teachers who had the greatest
influence on my writing, and toall my teacher friends out there helping young writers
now. Keep fighting the good fight, all of you.

ONE
I DONʹT LIKE CAGES.
I donʹt even like going to zoos. The first time I went to one, I almost had a
claustrophobic attack looking at those poor animals. I couldnʹt imagine any creature
living that way. Sometimes I even felt a little bad for criminals, condemned to life in a
cell. Iʹdcertainly never expected to spend my life in one.
But lately, life seemed to be throwing me a lot of things Iʹd never expected,
because here I was, locked away.
ʺHey!ʺ I yelled, gripping the steel bars that isolated me from the world. ʺHow
long am I going to be here? Whenʹs my trial? You canʹt keep me in this dungeon
forever!ʺ
Okay, it wasnʹt exactly a dungeon, not in the dark, rusty-chainsense. I was inside
a small cell with plain walls, a plain floor, and well . . . plain everything. Spotless. Sterile.
Cold. It was actually more depressing than any musty dungeon could have managed. The
bars in the doorway felt cool against my skin, hard and unyielding. Fluorescent lighting
made the metal gleam in a way that felt harsh and irritating to my eyes. I could see the
shoulder of a manstanding rigidly to the side of the cellʹs entrance and knew there were
probably four more guardians in the hallway out of my sight. I also knew none of them
were going to answer me back, but that hadnʹt stopped me from constantly demanding
answers from them for the last two days.
When the usual silence came, I sighed and slumped back on the cot in the cellʹs
corner. Like everything else in...