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22
Raven
I feltbad walking away from them when I knew all four of them mostly had my best interest in mind.
Except for Zach. I wasn’t sure about him. He was harder to figure out than the others. He was such a flirt and was so upfront about sex. Plus, there was the whole thing about hooking up with his identical brother when he wasn’t around.
I guess I never knew how to approach him or my feelings for him. While the attraction was there, and had been from the start, I’d held off. It was complicated enough and I’d been able to avoid him and avoid the feelings I had for him.
But that wasn’t going to work once we started having weekly meetings. Just the five of us and Professor Halifax.
What was she thinking?
I turned over in my bed and tossed the covers aside. Sleep wasn’t happening tonight. I knew exactly why Professor Halifax was doing this and it was all about me. Matt was right, she all but told me to have sex with Zach to help strengthen my magic. And now she was putting the five of us together to go over things before the trials.
How was that going to work? I knew I had a mating bond with all of them. Including Zach. Being around all of them and their sexual energy was going to drive me crazy. Especially if I was still holding out for Zach.
That couldn’t happen. I couldn’t do that to myself or to Zach. The two of us would probably end up tearing each other’s clothes off in the middle of the classroom.
I sat up, trying to tell myself that the only rational thing to do was to fuck him now. I had to. If I didn’t, there was no telling what our libidos would make us do.
Plus, I’d been laying here thinking about him doing things with his tongue. And no matter what else I tried to picture in my head, he kept coming back to mind.
Determined to seduce Zach, I hopped out of bed. I wondered if I should put on something sexy. He probably didn’t care what I was wearing, but I did. The tee shirt and shorts I was wearing were cute but they weren’t exactly screamingtake me, I’m yours.
Quickly, I threw on a black lace bra and matching undies. Then I pulled on a long black jacket. It was the closest thing I had to a robe. It would have to work.
Slipping my key card into the pocket, I quietly left my room.
It was after midnight and as I crept down the hall I could hear the sounds of quiet music and muffled conversation from the night owls in my dorm. Thankfully, the common room was empty.
Taking the stairs two at a time, I bolted out of the dorm before Ben or anyone else could catch me. I absolutely looked like I was on a mission to get a booty call.
Probably because I was.
Keeping my head down, I walked through the halls, ignoring the occasional student I passed. Finally, I made it to the Mage dorm and started up the stairs toward the Obscura suite.
When I stopped at their floor, I discovered I wasn’t alone. Standing in front of the door in a little black dress was Delores.
“Well, well, well,” she said. “Someone’s here for a nightcap.”
“Yeah, I just had a question about something,” I said, recalling the feeling of her fist in my face. I didn’t want to experience that again.
She turned toward me, her hands on her hips. “I thought I told you to leave him alone.”
“I’m visiting Matt if you must know,” I lied.
“Matt is out for the night.” She stood there silently, her head cocked to the side.
I knew she was waiting for me to leave but I’d come here for Zach, which I was pretty sure she’d figured out. Plus, when she’d punched me, I wasn’t prepared so I didn’t know to defend myself or fight back. I wasn’t about to make that mistake again.
I’d never thrown a punch, unless you counted my desperate clawing and scratching to get away from the men who attacked me before I came here.
“I wonder how far I have to push you to get you to use your time magic,” she said, taking a step closer to me. “I was hoping you’d do something after I pulled you down the stairs but that wasn’t enough. Hitting you didn’t work, that just knocked you out.”
“You wanted to get me to use my time magic?” I knew she wanted to hurt me but I didn’t consider that she could be trying to set me up. And while I’d been officially released of my sentence, I knew they’d throw me back into meetings with Officer M at the least if I used my magic.
She shrugged. “I want you gone. Lots of us want you gone. You’re causing a disruption in the way things work around here.”
