Based on his reaction, Adrian seemed to love it, too, as Liam sang about how much men annoyed him, but he really wanted to have sex with them. The whole tavern was into it, but Iman didn’t look too amused at all. I didn’t think she had a problem sharing Adrian with Ivar, Ari, and Alexios, but I didn’t think she wanted to be reminded of Adrian’s other lovers.
I hadn’t had a chance to really talk to my roommate since she decided to stop being a cat. I wasn’t really sure if I’d get the chance since we didn’t have any classes together and I didn’t think her mates were going to let her out of their sight when they could with Radames looking for her.
The party was raging. The food and drink at the tavern were amazing and so was the entertainment. Liam sang two more times and one of them was with some of the students who frequently got up there with him when he performed. If they wanted to, they could form a band and sell out shows.
It was nice to pretend I was just a normal college student drinking with my friends instead of someone trying to figure out how to stop a prophecy about the end of the world coming true.
Ihad some big, massive, audacity balls, but if I thought someone could point the finger at me after I murdered someone, I left town because I wasn’t fucking stupid and I was too pretty for jail. Was Radames fucking stupid and not the evil genius who had everyone’s built in fuckwit detector broken?
Because he showed up to our first class like he hadn’t murdered the most beloved bloke on campus and that bloke ended up being a phoenix so he came back from the dead and I accidentally gave him Doris between the eyes.
Like, he was sitting in his usual seat in history likenothinghad happened. Adrian hadn’t pointed the finger because we didn’t need anyone trying to get revenge until we knew how tokill them for good, but still, I wouldn’t have trusted that if it were me. First of all, if I killed someone, I made sure they stayed dead, Secondly, even if Ididmanage to fuck up and not kill someone all the way, I wasn’t sticking around even if they didn’t snitch right away. Because if they weren’t snitching, they were probably blackmailing.
Adrian was acting like he didn’t exist, but Ivar carried that hammer around with him everywhere now and he was glaring at Radames like he’d like to smash his face with it. I preferred Doris because hammers weremuchtoo messy for my taste, but honestly, good for him.
My big question was why hadn’t he left and why had either of them stayed if they were awake? They had no trust because this was the first time they’d reincarnated. They had their memories, they just needed to practice, so they had the muscle memory to do the magic.
Why did Mazen say Radames was constantly in the library or reading books like he was looking for the answer to something? It wasn’t who he was like we all thought. The fucker was looking for the answer to something and he was willing to get his arse kicked by the reincarnation of Thor and his big hammer.
He might not die for good, but I also didn’talwayskill people. Sometimes, you just needed to beat the piss out of them so they learned not to do what it looked like they were thinking of doing. Ivar and I could get him alone and commit a li’l felony battery. It would make me feel better for stabbing Adrian between the eyes because I’dneverkilled the wrong person before.
Sage pinched me because yeah, I was staring at Radames like I was imagining how satisfying it would be to kick someone in the kidneys who didn’t have vampire healing.
Internal bleeding was the gift that kept giving.
“We can’t do anything until we figure out how to stop him for good,” Sage whispered.
“I was just thinking Ivar and me could pan him out. Don’t kill him, just make it hurt.”
“We can’t. We have to figure out what they are up to. Why did they stay after Adrian?”
We didn’t get to finish our conversation because Professor Kane was starting her lecture. We had a lot to talk about, but it was rude to talk while she was teaching and frankly, I loved this class.
This class was completely different. Lola didn’t have anyone to make snide comments to, so I could pay full attention to the lecture without getting twitchy towards Doris because I wanted to stab them. The rest of the class had done their reading this time and actually realized how bloody brilliant Professor Kane was.
They were participating in class this time instead of joining in with Lola making fun of the teacher. She was awarding points for the lottery left and right, especially if anyone challenged her or threw out a new theory.
There was this one girl who was always in her pajamas and half asleep. I expected her to turn into a sloth any day now even though Morgana assured me sloth shifters weren’t a thing because why would anyone do that? But seriously, what if someone made a sloth shifter and realized they made a horrific mistake and this was just the first time one had been reincarnated? Her name was Lena. I only bothered learning it when she stopped being a complete Muppet.
Professor Kane had moved on from the pools and various creation myths. She’d spent a lot of time on demons and witches at the beginning of the semester since they were the original magic users on this realm and we were just now starting our unit on Fairy.
Khalid really liked working with Professor Kane and bounced theories off of her all the time, but he hadn’t told her the truth about Fairy because it wasn’t his secret. Only Scorpia could decide if that history should be shared with our history professor.
Now, the creatures responsible for the destruction of Fairy were sitting behind me like two silent farts and I really wanted to glare at them. I’d stolen enough money from the mafia and stashed it somewhere that if I lived smart enough, I’d never run out. The trust would be nice, but I didn’tneedit.
I’d spend every dime I had and get the absolute worst job I could think of, which was a dentist because messing with teeth grossed me out, just to spoil her. My girl needed the trust because she wanted financial independence after how she was raised and her Da kicked her out with nothing.
I had to sit on my hands and bite my lip because I wanted to air all of Lola and Radames’s dirty business in their first life and betray the fairies. Professor Kane would give us a ton of points and I’d win Sage’s trust fund for her.
Because sometimes I got the feeling Professor Mykene was a little put out with me and she wasn’t going to give me ten thousand points for any crimes I got up to like she’d done with Lucian.
Which honestly wasn’t fair.
But I said nothing because I was thinking about the greater good. I didn’t want the fairies mad at me and I had to play the long game.
But when Ididfigure out how to kill them for good, I was going to take my time about it.
Iwas trying not to be obvious about staring because Liam and Ivar were both looking at Radames and Lola like they wanted to yank their spines out their butts, but I was watching them. Why did they stay?
