It wasn’t just that. As if I’d allow somebody to be killed on my watch. I also knew that Evira didn’t have it in her to take this thing that far. But I wanted Zayn to be alertandto be in the frame of mind now to hang back and not inject chaos into the situation, a situation that belonged to Evira and that she needed to handle solo for her own peace of mind.
He grimaced. “He’s still pissed at me about thatfleshlightthing?”
I didn’t dignify that with an answer, gesturing at my shadows instead. “They’ll hold for another ten minutes. Before they dissipate, teleport the bastard to his dorm so he can heal and nobody sees him in a state.”
“Win,” he urged, reaching out to me.
I jerked back further. “I need to get to class.”
With that, I disappeared in a swirl of my shadows.
I smileddown at my phone as I sat at a single-person desk at the back of myGrimoire Creationclass waiting for it to commence.
Fortunately, I’d been afforded twenty minutes before the scheduled time of this class wherein I’d been able to come down from the intensity of what had happened by the lake.
Thatcoming downhad been assisted by Evira sending me a text to assure me that all was well, that Keuric was healing in his dorm room and still breathing, and that Zayn hadn’t worsened the situation with any sort of rage outburst either.
Andshewas okay.
Not justokay,but she felt better having done that. Plus, the threat that Keuric had posed to her—and to Zayn with Keuric discovering his erotic connection to her—had been dealt with. An ice dragon being utterly dominated and brought to his knees by another was no small thing to their species. It would’ve definitely… recalibrated things between them.
I grimaced and swallowed all of that down again, focusing instead on the other messages that had come in since the moment I’d walked into this class.
Vax:Beautiful or little death. Which do you prefer?
Winter:I’ll take either.
Vax:Little death, then?
Winter:Why ask if you already knew?
Vax:I wanted to see if you would convey your preference.
Winter:Testing me again, hmm?
Vax:Do you agree that you need it?
Winter:Perhaps. I prefer little death.
Vax:Very good boy.
Winter:Although, who doesn’t enjoy being called beautiful? Little death is just more personal.
Vax:You mean, special?
Winter:Yes. And you?
Vax:Your shortening of my name satisfies me. Sweetheart is rather endearing also. Like so much else about you.
Winter:You’re making me blush.
Vax:Then prepare yourself as I would like to invite you to my suite again and I wish to devour your lovely cock.
Jeez.
Vax:Lost for words?
Winter:Visualizing it.
