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7
Luka
I hatedthat Raven was going to meet my mom this way. It was so public and would result in a lot more attention than I wanted.
Last year on parent’s day, I’d managed to get my mom to agree to a tour and breakfast without all the fanfare of the parent’s dinner.
I felt bad for Raven. She didn’t have any parents coming to this and I knew it would be harder on her. Plus, there was my mother to endure.
“Should we get going?” my mother asked from the chair in the corner of my room.
She looked so out of place there. My room wasn’t anything like the opulence she was usually surrounded by. I kept things simple here. Basic furniture, simple fixtures. I didn’t like all the grandeur that accompanied life in the mansion I’d grown up in. Though, I suppose that just made me another whiny rich kid. Like everyone else here.
Expect Raven.
I didn’t like talking about my past with her. One, because my mother was intimidating and two, because I knew she’d had a rough childhood. I hated that she’d been through so much while the rest of us never had to lift a finger. It wasn’t right. Especially given that her parents held enough clout to get her tuition covered.
“Yeah,” I pulled my blazer on and turned to my mom, “Raven will meet us at the cafeteria.”
“Oh yes, dinner at the cafeteria. Adorable.”
“You’re the one who wanted to experience parent’s day,” I reminded her.
“Mostly because I want to meet this girl who has you wrapped around her little finger.” She wrinkled her nose. “It’s unusual for an incubus to be so focused on one partner. I’m not sure I like it.”
I still hadn’t told my mom that Raven was my mate. I was hoping she’d love Raven and find her as endearing as I did and not sense the bond between us. It was a gamble but it was better than having my mom go in already prepared to hate her.
“Just wait till you get to know her,” I said. “Besides, it’s not like she’d care if I was with others. She’s seeing other males.”
My mother lifted an eyebrow. “Oh? Yet you feel obligated to her alone?”
“I told you, it’s still new and she’s super hot,” I said. “Besides, I did get it on with her and a wolf shifter a few weeks back.”
My mom’s shoulders seemed to relax at that statement. I had to be the only student here reassuring his mother about his life choices by talking about how much sex I was having. While I knew the other supernaturals here were pretty open about sex, for us, it was part of life.
My mom was a succubus so she also fed off of sexual energy to fuel her magic. It was part of why I wasn’t sure who my real father was. I’d met the three men who were the most likely candidates, and they were all involved in our lives, but it was a different kind of family.
I didn’t call any of themdad, but I knew I could count on any of them to have my back. And we all shared the same table at holidays. Then my mom and one or all of them would retreat to her room and I would get the fuck out of the house before I had to hear anything.
It wasn’t until I started leaving the underworld, and visiting other realms, that I realized just how different I was.
“She’s meeting us at the cafeteria?” my mom asked as I closed the door behind us.
“Yes,” I said. “Her room is in the shifter dorm and it’s not my favorite place to go.”
“Why is she with the shifters? I thought you said she was a mage?”
“Honestly, I still don’t know why she’s down there.” It was something I’d wondered from time to time but it never made much of a difference overall. I didn’t like going in the mage dorms, either.
“Her parents must have done something to piss off the other mages,” my mother said.
“You think? I always heard how great they were.”
“It’s not like it matters to us, but some of those mages are still stuck in the fourteenth century,” my mother said.
I rolled my eyes, not looking forward to another lecture about the good old days. You could only hear about how glorious it was living during the Black Death so many times.
“You know, back then mages were feared but not like us demons,” my mother said. “Oh, no. All we had to do was bare our teeth and the humans went running. Now they just want to fuck us. I remember the good old days. BeforeTwilightmade having sex with monsters so cool.”
