Bael smirked. “No, you’re getting horny.”
“We have other, bigger things to focus on right now,” Nix said.
“So, you prefer to let the lust build-up then?” Bael smiled. “Fine. It will be delicious watching you beg to be fucked later.”
Nix cleared her throat, her cheeks blazing hot as she changed the subject. She stepped to the side, letting Bael’s hand drop from her back and regretting the loss of the warmth there.
She led the men to exit the office and asked, “What do you think the ‘announcement’ is that the dean mentioned?”
“I have not heard anything as a faculty member,” Thierry said.
“Say, have you ever wanted to be dean, Stoney?” Bael asked as he opened the door for Nix to walk through. Once Nix walked through, Bael let go, and the door slammed into the other guys. “I hear there is an opening.”
“So, if Lemmuns is in the auditorium, what’s the plan?” Persius asked Nix, wantingherinput.
Plan. Right. “Grab him.”
Thankfully, no one commented on her lack of details.
Still, one of the guys questioned, “And if there are too many eyes on us?”
“I’ll create a distraction,” Nix said simply.
Bael’s red eyes grew wide. “You’re going tostrip—”
Thierry whacked the back of Bael’s head.
“I am going to make an announcement of my own,” Nix told them in the empty hallway. “I am going to let everyone in this school, and the council, know that I am a phoenix.”
The men stopped walking. All of them froze in their places, and Nix turned to see their shocked and dread-filled faces.
“Is that…maybe what your idea was last time that made us put you in a cage?” Thierry asked.
“No,” Nix grumbled. “Kellan has the power right now because only he knows he has been harboring a phoenix for his own purposes. If everyone knows, he has to answer for breaking a council rule.”
“That is putting a lot of trust in the council to hold him accountable.”
“Kellan got phoenix shifters to become extinct by making us seem like dangerous creatures.” Nix pushed her shoulders back as she said, “I will show everyone that is not true.”
“And what if he baits you into violence?” Bael asked. “My impulsive, fiery mate can keep calm?”
Nix shrugged.
The guys exchanged worried looks.
CHAPTER 35
“Damn it, Ryker, think pure thoughts,” Bael snapped at the dragon shifter after he brushed against him as they circled the entrance to the auditorium.
“What?” Nix asked, looking at Ryker and…his bulging pants. His engorged erection lifted the seam of his uniform pants as Ryker blushed and stared at the ground. Nix’s mouth went dry.
“Oh, that’s nothing.” Persius waved it off, gesturing to his own erection, poking forward the crotch of his pants.
The pegasus shifter really was hung like a, well, horse. Persius nonchalantly scratched at his chest, and the bulge twitched.
“Gods, you are all that horny?” Nix gasped, trying to ignore the tingling occurring between her legs at the sight of them.
She was supposed to still be mad at them! Why did her body crave them so much? In the middle of all of the chaos.
