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My eyebrows furrowed and if I thought my heart was racing before, I was dead wrong.
“Would you? What would you miss, scolding me?”
He blew out a breath and kicked at the ground, but his posture looked like he might try to rescue me again if I made a run for the veil. I looked over my shoulder at it, and its pulse didn’t affect me quite as much.
“Endy, I don’t—”
I raised my hand, not wanting to hear it. “Why are you here?” The question came out harsh and curt.
“I came to get you for tutoring. Titania wanted us both in there.”
Now I was really confused. “I thought you were like a teacher’s assistant or something. Or Titania’s…something. Why would you need tutoring?”
He gave me a half smile and I hated how it weaved into my stomach and rustled up otherwise dormant butterflies. “I am Titania’s assistant, which basically means I’m her lackey. But I struggle with…things like any other person. I only work for her to pay for my extra expenses.”
“Oh…do I need my bag?” I asked, pointing to the dorms.
He shook his head but his fingers were still touching mine, causing a shiver to spindle down my spine. “Not for this one, Endy.”
He called me Endy, and the sound of my name on his lips did things to me, things that overrode anything the veil had to offer.
I finally got hold of myself and cleared my throat. “Lead the way.”
He turned with a smile and did a mohawk check. His fingers didn’t touch mine as we walked, and I missed the connection. There was a dark alcove in front of me and, with every step, my stomach pulled tighter and my heart thrummed so hard that soon I couldn’t hear anything but the breaths between us and that beating drum that never ceased.
When we had walked fully into the tunnel, Bain stopped walking. Certainly the tutoring wasn’t here in the middle of a dark tunnel.
“Bain?” I asked the question, but the tunnel made a joke of it, echoing my tiny voice over and over again.
“Am I mean to you?” He a stepped toward me. I walked backward while he continued forward until my back hit the cold brick and I had nowhere else to go. I was trapped by him in the best way possible.
“You’re not nice,” I quipped, kind of proud of myself for being able to speak when my whole body was clenching and pulsing in ways I hadn’t experienced since Jimmy Boone asked me to the prom. I turned him down because he was an asshole, but still, he was hot.
But on a scale of one to ten, where Jimmy was a five, Bain was a thirty-four and a half.
“I didn’t want to be mean to you. I was just trying to keep you out of trouble. I was attempting to help you.”
I scoffed. “You should try another strategy.”
Oh gods, he was so close to me. His chest was nearly touching mine and if I took a deep breath, my pebbled nipples would graze him. His eyes dipped down to my lips, and I swallowed against the anticipation nearly taking over my body.
“Another strategy. Like what?”
“You could try being nice.”
“Would nice work on you, sweet Endy?”
If he just kept talking like that to me in this dark tunnel, a lot would work. I nodded, since my tongue wasn’t currently working.
“Nice it is,” he said. His lips descended on mine and, despite the spike in his hair and the angles of his voice in class, they were soft. He turned his head as I melted into the motions, letting it take me over. My skin tingled and my core throbbed as he pressed me against the wall, all of him flush against all of me. He reached up to cup my face while I fisted that button-down shirt tucked into his pants.
I was lost in him and, from what I could decipher, he was lost in me. Veil forgotten. Tutoring forgotten. All thoughts of school and fairies and wings floated out the window of my mind.
He ended the kiss in little pecks. “How was that for nice?”
I faintly heard the clicking of heels in the distance. “You two are late for tutoring. Bain, this isn’t like you. Endymion, you of all people need to be there.”
Bain’s eyes didn’t leave mine as he smiled. “Yes, ma’am. We were just on our way.”
