The way she’d stood up for her friend had surprised him, as had her willingness—however apprehensive—to take Molly’s place and be his companion for the evening.
Beneath Susie’s bravery, he detected a deep anxiety that she’d pushed down. It made him want to console her. She’d been scared of him when she’d first seen him, but that hadn’t stopped her from standing up for the first-year, and it made him admire her all the more. Few people would have made such a sacrifice to protect someone they cared about.
Which made Susie unique and selfless.
Those qualities perplexed him, and he’d followed her like a moth to a flame into her bedroom. Maybe, by being close to her, some of her goodness might rub off on him.
It was only after the point of no return—once his cock had thrust into her hot, wet cunt, and it felt like his entire core was melting—that he allowed himself to remember that bedding a student was never a good idea.
But was it wrong?
That word hardly existed under King Henrikk’s reign, and what had been unacceptable fourteen years ago was irrelevant. By today’s societal standards, bedding one of his students—who were all of legal age—was neither right nor wrong. And, from a moral perspective, the law was even more flexible.
But Arken knew it was wrong.
He could feel it, just as he felt Susie’s soft body beneath him and recognised the confused mix of emotions on her face. On the face of it, she seemed willing, but he sensed the turmoil she was keeping from him.
So much grief. And she’s lonely.
As was he.
Arken wished he could help her to feel better, but fucking never made anyone less lonely. But this right here felt different.
And wrong. It was terribly wrong, and he knew that in his heart.
Even if it felt right in so many ways.
There was no stopping now. He desperately needed to feed.
Not…yet.
Arken ignored the sharp hunger pangs, which was almost easy given how enthralled he was with Susie.
He’d nearly died when he spotted her gorgeous, furry plume of a tail, the base of which emerged from just above the perfect pucker of her asshole; and the perfect swells of her large, round ass. The sight of it was hotter than it should have been.
She’d even let him touch the soft silky fur, and it had felt like a luxurious landscape of wilderness against his fingertips.
The honour of touching her tail had shaken him. It made him question whether he should simply drink a small amount of her blood to settle his famished body and leave her room.
Except that he didn’t want to leave. He wanted her, pure and simple.
Indecision warred within him until, finally, he’d made up his mind.
I’m not giving you a choice, he’d said, wondering if the words would haunt him later. But something about the aching pain locked away in Susie’s heart called to him. He was aware of her every breath and heartbeat, and beneath her placid demeanour…pain and sorrow.
It was what prevented him from leaving the room. He needed to see this through, to offer some gesture or distraction from the sadness she carried. As much as he wanted her, this had become all about her. He wanted to take her apprehension and help it manifest into something potent and heated: desire.
Following Susie to her bed had been surreal, and every moment after that was making him feel more alive than he’d felt in years.
She’d looked up at him from the bed, her bright green eyes clouded with disappointment, but they’d somehow still carried hope. As if she hoped that no matter what happened, things would get better.
Arken was intent on showing her that this, right here, could be better.
Her pearly, fair skin was smooth to the touch, and she was plump and curvaceous in a way that excited him. She’d felt so good when he’d finally settled on top of her. He was dying to fuck her, to discover how she would feel when he bore down on her, and how she would moan as he ploughed into her.
His aching cock had waited at her entrance for the longest time as he kissed and stroked her, making one last effort to talk himself out of something that he would have once considered unthinkable: penetrating one of his students.
Fuck it.