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“Duh,” I replied. “The tension between us could suffocate people,” I argued. “Now what’s the tea?”
“The tea?”
“Where were you?” I countered.
He didn’t say anything which led me to do what I normally did in situations like this.
Halt our plans until he spoke.
The elevator came to a stop, and he looked over to see if I’d pressed the emergency stop button, but I hadn’t moved a muscle. One look into my eyes and he sighed.
“Do we really need to have this conversation now?” he questioned and moved so we were now facing one another. I simply took a step back to lean against the mirrored walls while I continued to cross my arms.
“We can’t leave until Dimitris gets to the car, and we both know he ain’t taking seventy-plus stairs to get there,” I countered with a wicked grin. “So spill, Vikky. While the tea is still steaming hot.”
He totally looked pissed while he scanned the walls of glimmering pink - my magic deciding to test out our capabilities by mimicking the same technique Viktor had used last time we were in this type of situation.
“Stop calling me Vikky,” he whined but approached me like a predator ready to pounce on his prey. I held my ground. The intensity between us was like fire and ice. Viktor not being there when I was ill wasn’t even a big deal, but I knew his absence had some meaning to it.
“I had to go meet with the members of the High Court,” he announced which completely caught my interest. “A certain organization is pressuring them to reveal the new Master and Disciple and seeking for us to get to work in our duties associated with the High Court immediately.”
The way I deeply frowned was probably expected because he continued, “On normal occasions, after a few days of recovery, the newly appointed members would waltz into the position and begin doing their share for the High Court.”
“However…” I prompted. I may be showing off by holding the elevator still, but I wouldn’t be able to do it forever in as flawless a manner as Viktor does.
“My parents may have predicted something like this would happen,” he admitted. He looked as if he weren’t staring directly at me but seemed further away as he remembered his parents. “They left a document with a list of their requests and rules that should be obeyed in the time of their ascension. One of them was that we, the new candidates to take their place, shouldn’t start their court roles until a year from their ascension.”
A year…just like me becoming the official Alpha of the pack.
"So…will the High Court approve it?”
His far-away gaze returned to the present as he lowered his gaze to me. Without delay, he reached out and very lightly traced where I hid our necklace - the symbol of the bond between Master and Disciple.
The action made me shiver, and that could have been why my eyes went from his to his lips and then back those calculative orbs that were trying to hide the obvious.
Trying to hide how much he wished to lay his lips on mine.
“When I’m involved, there’s nothing to question when it’s written in magic,” he began as he gravitated closer and closer to me until I could feel his exhales that came from his nostrils. “I didn’t go there to get their approval. I went there to remind them that my father and mother’s blood runs through my very veins and they won’t be able to change what was clearly created, knowing the Coven would go above and beyond to take away what we rightful earned.”
His thumb lay lightly on the corner of my bottom lip, and the touch alone made my whole body tingle like tiny shockwaves had raced through me.
He further leaned in then, his free hand pressing against the mirrored walls behind me before his thumb dropped and was replaced by his chilled lips. Could I feel more relieved to be kissed by him?
The hint of worry I carried due to Viktor’s absence began to fade with every movement of his lips against mine. I whimpered quietly into his mouth, desperate for things to move far quicker than what he’d possibly allow.
My concentration was slipping, and though I may have awakened a load of magical power by ascending to this position, I was still a novice in using it to my favor.
“Ease your energy out of the spell, Willow,” he encouraged between an intense kiss. I would have normally disobeyed or tried to be combative like I was with Dimitris, but with Viktor I felt a need to obey because in these new, foreign areas of magic, he was indeed the Master warlock and I was the new Disciple under his protective wing.
Retracting my magic at a slow pace while maintaining our next long kiss was intriguing to balance, but once it was done, I felt so much better and could really focus on all the sensations Viktor’s kisses triggered.
It was a reminder of what I currently had in my life and why I had to work hard: so it was never taken away from me. This sense of security, support, and love from these men who were doing everything they could to ensure no one fucked with us during this shift into a new chapter of our lives was what was holding me together.
The changes each of us would experience and the new chapter that would open as a whole pack was on the horizon.
Breaking the kiss, the elevator beginning to move again.
He then used his free hand to pull me into him, his arm hooking around me before the other that was pressed to the mirrored surface behind me wrapped around me to embrace me in a comforting hug.
