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I took the first opportunity to leave Florence and the others partying, hurrying back to the girls’ dorm through the cold. But, under the wisteria, Valen stepped out of the shadows and I pulled up short.
“Figures you’d slip away,” he said. “Going to cry in your pillows?”
I bristled. “Where’s Mina? Couldn’t get it up, so she went to find someone who can?”
“I got what I wanted out of her. She’s probably taking those sloppy seconds straight to your boyfriend.”
“Ugh, you’re insufferable.”
I made to keep walking but he stepped in front me.
“Yet, you know I’m right,” he said smoothly.
“Apollo’s business is Apollo’s business.”
“And he’ll make it my business when I get a text to get rid of her.”
I wasn’t going to pretend that Apollo would go to his bed alone that night. Even if I’d stayed, it wouldn’t be me he took back to his room to fuck, use up, and discard. Putting it like that, I guess I was lucky.
I didn’t need to admit that to Valen, though. He didn’t need to know the intricacies of my ‘relationship’ with Apollo. If Apollo hadn’t seen fit to tell him, I wasn’t going to. Besides, this wasn’t about Apollo and me. It was about Valen and me.
I stepped closer to him and his head dropped towards mine. We didn’t touch, but we didn’t need to for heat to engulf me. He was so tantalisingly near, the ghostly feeling of his skin touching mine a delightfully torturous tension sizzling between us.
“I don’t need to explain my relationship to you,” I told him. “Apollo and I have never promised each other anything. I didn’t ask for, expect, nor do I want his fidelity–”
“No, if you had that, how could you justify fucking me?” he snarled.
Instead of pushing him away, I leant into him. “But I’m not fucking you,” I reminded him softly.
“You want to fuck me.”
“You want to fuck me,” I countered.
He rested his forehead to mine as his hand went to my hip, and may as well have burned a hole in me and my clothes.
“Of course I do,” he said, his voice gravelly and deep. Had I not know Valen so well, I’d have said it was choked.
“Well, tough fucking luck, Valen,” I said, but I nuzzled against his face.
“Tell me you want me,” he begged.
“I want you,” I told him, and it was barely a whisper.
He leant his lips towards mine and I let him kiss me.
It was soft and gentle and made my heart do things it was not supposed to do. As our bodies closed the gap between us, it wasn’t just my clit that tingled for him, that warmed for him. So did my chest. My stomach fluttered like I was nervous about something. I just didn’t know what.
Finally, I pulled away and put a finger over his lips.
“I crave you, but it’s not happening again,” I told him cheekily.
Every fibre of my being wanted to push him against the closest wall and make a liar out of me. My hand dropped from his lips and to his chest like I would do just that. Thankfully, I managed to control my smaller head.
“You think you’re in charge?” he asked.
I nodded. “I know I’m in charge. You’ve admitted you still want me, Valen, and I’m not hiding I want you, but I can want you and still deny you.”
He growled. “We’ll see how long that lasts.”
