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And, with that, he shoved his hands in his pockets and stalked off.
“Apollo?” I called, starting after him
Valen stepped between us, his arm in front of me. It didn’t touch me, but I felt the warmth of it against my bare arms.
“I wouldn’t,” he warned.
He sounded pissed. Furious. Seething, even. All contained behind that calm exterior, where the only hint was in how rigid he held his body and how rough his voice was.
God, but I loved when his voice sounded like that. It set my heart racing and clit tingling, and my breath threatening to stop. It didn’t matter that I’d just almost kissed Apollo, my body reacted instinctively to Valen.
“I guess the night’s over, then,” I huffed.
“I’ll take you back to school,” Valen said.
“What about Apollo?”
Valen looked in the direction his friend and God had gone. He sucked his teeth before he answered, “Fucker can deal with his own shit tonight.”
He went over to the car and opened the front door for me. His expression told me he wasn’t going to put up with any disobedience on my part. I wanted to argue with him, to see how disobedient I could be before he saw fit to punish me. But I had a feeling I knew where Apollo was going and, knowing that I wasn’t going to be allowed to seek the arms of another as well, I just wanted to go and curl up in bed while Florence commiserated about stupid boys with me.
So I got in the car, not missing Valen’s surprise at my silent obedience. We were pulling into the boys’ dorm garage when he finally broke that silence.
“You think you’re proving anything in those outfits you’ve been parading around in?” he asked.
I glared at him. “Iallowedyou to bring me back to school without a fight, do not mistake that for any newfound subservience. I do not answer to you, Valk,” I told him, throwing his favourite line back at him.
“You think you’re achieving anything?”
“Since you’ve brought it up, yes.”
He threw the car into park in its rightful place. “Youwillstop showing so much skin,” he ordered.
A thrill ran through me. I liked it when he ordered me around. I liked the possessive streak shining bright, even if he was going to keep denying it. But that didn’t mean I was going to submit.
“It’s a free world,” I told him, saccharine sweet. “I will do what – or who – I like.”
Valen put a hand on the shoulder of my seat and leant towards me. “The only who you’ll do is me,” he snarled, full of that domineering passion.
Warmth flooded me and I felt my body leaning towards his, totally ready for him to use it however he wanted. I wanted him. I needed him.
But I couldn’t have him.
As I started to get out of the car, I replied cavalierly, “Well, you don’t want me, Valen. So, I guess I’ll just have to find someone else to do the job.”
I heard him growl and he was at my door before I’d finished getting out of the car. He pressed me against the back door of the car, slamming my door closed as he did, and I could feel him hard against my hip.
He was breathing heavily, his eyes feverish like he was going mad. For once, he wasn’t hiding behind a mask of annoyed indifference. Everything was on display. I saw it. I took one look in his eyes and Ifeltit.
My heart tripped and skipped. My stomach plummeted. My nipples tightened and my clit ached in response to the fierce need I saw in him.
Need. For me.
“You have to understand, princess,” he said, his voice a strangled husk. “I need you to understand.”
“Understand what, Valen?” I asked.
He dropped his forehead to mine with a heavy sigh. “Your life isn’t yours? Well, my life’s not mine, either. I was already pulled in two different directions... Now...” His rough chuckle was humourless.
