His eyes flamed with his pink power, but there was amusement there.
He gave the nod I’d asked for.
I dropped my hand.
And then I turned my attention back to the little sphere we had levitating over our desk that had his fuchsia magical flames swirling inside my ice-blue magic. As we’d been talking, I’d felt his flames flaring unstably, but I’d held them steady with my power, stopping them from raging out of control and breaching the sphere—and likely raising all kinds of hell.
“You wanna go out with me,icicle?”
I sucked in a breath.
“Is that the way a guy like you asks for a fuck?”
He slapped his hand to his heart. “A guy like me? Are you calling me a whore, baby?”
“Areyou such a thing?”
He grinned. “Maybe. Why, you want some pointers? You know, given your limited experience in that area?”
That comment, combined with the manner in which he’d brought up Winter… he knew. He knew we’d been together.
But even though he was brash and so very open and far from putting on airs, he hadn’t actually spoken to it directly. Thatactually said a lot. He wasn’t the asshole he liked his rivals—like Vaxan and Keuric—to believe.
“No pointers wanted.”
His gaze softened, then he nudged me gently. “I wasn’t asking you for a fuck. I actually meant a… a… you know…”
“A date?”
“Sure.”
I grinned. “Say it.”
He growled low in his throat. “You’re maddening.”
“I guess you bring it out in me.”
His eyes sparkled.
And then he straightened, rolled his shoulders, and asked, “Evira, dragon princess, tough little cookie, about-to-become-the-bane-of-my-existence gorgeous wonder… will you go out on a date with me?”
I beamed out at him. “That sounds really nice.”
He flinched.
And then something happened.
He tensed and gestured at Vaxan. “You can still fuck around with him if you want. It’s just a date, okay? And I wouldn’t expect it to be allniceeither, all right?”
Ah,so this was what had happened with him and Winter. He didn’t like the vulnerability of things. Like, he seemed to want it, but when he got close to it, he panicked and turned tail.
“Sure thing,” I responded. “I’ll get right on that.”
His eyes narrowed. “Good. You do that. Maybe you, him, and Win can have a dirty fucking threesome, make a whole sex fest out of it.”
I made a show of fanning myself. “I can’t wait.”
He glared.
