Sarasa was the only female at the table who didnotwear a horrified expression. She watched Nix with a curious expression.
Nix stepped back from the lunch table. Bael swiftly joined her, standing behind her, beside Ryker’s looming, hot presence. “Think about it,” Nix said.
“Would the academy really let us take combat class?” Sarasa wondered aloud.
Elle scowled at her friend, and Sarasa blushed, looking down at the table. The Oadess family had a lot of power in the academy, but they hadultimatepower in the cygnus community.
Nix answered Sarasa, but addressed the entire table as she replied, “Even if the academy didn’t, my mate—you can refer to him by hisnameand not his shifter species—is the Teaching Assistant for the combat class. He would be happy to help someone learn to protect themselves fromactualviolent threats.”
Nix reached her arm out and dropped an invisible microphone, signaling she was done with her speech.
As Nix strutted out of the cafeteria, she felt different.
It was a new dawn. A new day.
She felt…strong.
If alphas felt this strong their entire lives, how did theynotlet it go to their heads?
Nix would be the first alpha to offer prey shifters protection without any cost or trade.
She would—
Bael scooped Nix into his arms and flung her over his shoulder, so he could carry her and palm her ass while doing so. “I need to fuck you again,” he growled. “Now.”
“Now,” Ryker grunted.
“We just had sex in theairmere hours ago—”
Bael walked her right into the infirmary, meant for sick and injured students. The sterile room was possibly the least sexy of the entire academy; yet, Bael and Ryker’s lust for her turned it into a damn red-velveted, candle-lit honeymoon suite.
The academy nurse gasped as the three of them entered. “Is she okay?” The nurses’ gaze caught on how Nix was being carried.
Bael carried her toward the private, adjoining room with four cots and stated over his shoulder to the nurse, “Our mate isn’t feeling well. We’ll be taking care of her in here.”
CHAPTER 8
“You are…stronger today,” Ryker told her, a gleam of pride shining in his pretty golden eyes. His firm, bulging erection was also obvious under those tight gym shorts.
The dragon really was insatiable. But then again, so was she.
Something about the new fire and power coursing through her veins left her feeling invigorated and energetic and…horny.
“Oh yeah?” Nix asked, stretching her legs on the field at combat class after running a few miles. His gaze licked over her legs. “Strong enough that you’ll finally teach me some fight moves?”
Still enraptured with the sight of her legs, Ryker shook his head.
“Because you are worried you will hurt me?” she asked. What made him not want to teach her?
Ryker stared at her, expressionless. Revealing nothing.
“Oh, come on,” Nix whined. “I need to learn how to defend myself. I just promised all the prey shifters at lunch that I could protect them if they wanted me to.”
Meanwhile, Nix didn’t truly know how to protect herself yet. The fire that came off her skin was involuntary. She didn’t know how she could summon it other than through rage. And what happened if someone used the shifter poison on her, completely rendering her powerless?
I need to know how to fight.
Nix said, “At least show me something. How do I best throw a punch? How can I get away from someone larger and stronger than me?”
