His fixations on me had only increased since the time in the stairwell. A subtle kind of possessiveness mixed with old school chivalry that only had me grinning every time he took my bag or opened a door. Then there were his dark looks at anyone other than Tate who got too close to me.
Tate wasn’t much better and, between the two of them, all my time was taken up by them and classes. I barely had a moment to think of anything else… until it was Wednesday, and an alarm went off on my phone.
While Kyren pressed hot, open-mouth kisses along my neck and chest, his shadows wrapped around me, grabbing and caressing anything they could get their hands on, Tate watched from the side, his hand stroking up and down his length.
When my phone went off, Tate grabbed it, his brows furrowing as he looked at the alarm. “What meeting are you supposed to be at in an hour?”
My body ached as my eyes widened, and I struggled against Kyren’s shadows. “I forgot. I have… uh… a meeting with my advisor to change a class.”
Kyren’s eyes narrowed on me. “Which class?”
“Econ,” I spat out. I hoped they took my racing heart as left over from their touches and not the panic I was feeling. “I really just don’t see the point in taking it and was going to swap it out with something else.”
“Like what?” Tate asked, shifting closer, his hand sliding between my legs.
I choked on a breath, hips lifting to meet his touch. “Umm…. I’m not… I’m not sure yet. That’s what the meeting is for.”
“Hmmm.” Kyren’s tongue flicked over my nipple.
“That’s what I was thinking,” Tate commented, his fingers pulsating in and out of me.
“Wha—what?” I stuttered, my mind becoming mush under their touch.
With the help of Kyren’s shadows, Tate lifted me and placed me over Kyren’s face, his body pressed close behind me, his voice in my ear. “That we have an hour to see how many times we can make you scream.”
Before I could find a reason to protest, they proceeded to do just that. By the time I finally told them no more, I could barely breathe, let alone move.
Except I had to. With a groan, I rolled out from between the two of them, who seemed perfectly capable of going another ten rounds with the way their hungry eyes watched my every move.
I searched the room for my clothes, dragging each item on like I had weights pushing down my arms and legs.
“Where are you going?” Tate asked, his hands behind his head a smirk on his lips.
Hopping on one foot, I shoved on one shoe and then searched for the other. “I have that meeting, I told you.”
“Oh… uh.” Tate and Kyren exchanged a look.
My other shoe in hand, my eyes narrowed. “What?”
“It’s already five.”
“No.” I gaped at him, horror filling me. “No. No. No. No. This can’t be happening.” I shoved my other shoe on and tied them faster than I’d ever done before.
Tate crawled over to me with a sheepish grin. “We’re sorry, princess. We thought you had decided not to go since the alarm went off again, and then you didn’t say anything…. So…” Tate brushed my hair away from my face.
I jerked away from him, standing.
“Jack?” A hurt look passed over his face.
I blew out a breath and shook my head. “It’s fine. I just — I have to go. I’ll…” I grabbed my phone from the nightstand and stalked toward the door, my anxiety skyrocketing with each step. “I’ll talk to you later.”
Then I left the two of them there, naked and confused, while I raced through the dorm toward the main campus building. Students shot me curious looks as I ran through the halls and up the stairs, hoping against hope that I hadn’t fucked this up. That I hadn’t let my one lead get lost because I was distracted.
I could just hear the lecture Julian would give me once he found out. He would never let me hear the end of it. In fact, he might even report this to the Hunter’s guild president, and I’d be pulled from the assignment. Then they’d never trust me to go solo ever again.
No, I wouldn’t let that happen. It’s only been an hour. Surely their meeting went longer than that. Even if I only caught theback half, I could get faces, maybe even names to pass on to the guild.
I could still fix this. I had to.
