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She wanted it too. I could see it in the blue flames snapping in her pupils. In the way she licked her lips. Hell, I could smell her arousal; it was the sweetest scent I’d ever experienced.
I gave her wrists a shake to pull us both out of the trance.
“First years aren’t allowed to use mirror travel. At the very least, you need to learn the spell and the process before you do so. If I hadn’t realized you were about to follow me, you’d still be floating out there. You’d be there forever.”
The idea was giving me hives. Instead of fucking her, I wanted to pull her into my arms and hug her until this weird tightness in my chest eased.
“Yeah, I sort of came to that same conclusion. Um, if you aren’t going to ravish me, can you let me go now?”
I released her wrists. Reluctantly.
She swung her arms like she was stretching them out. The action thrust her boobs in my face. Boobs that were definitely more than a handful each, for the record.
I cast my gaze to the side.
“Wow, you’re really shaken up,” Daruka said. “Someone you know disappear in the mirror at some point?”
It would be nice if that were the reason for this irrational fear for her safety. It made a hell of a lot more sense than simply the idea of this girl I’d just met a few hours ago twisting me in knots like this.
“Just… don’t break any more rules without checking with me first, okay?”
She snorted. “You’re kidding, right?”
No, but if I tried to explain, she wouldn’t understand. Hell, I didn’t, not really. I understood my elf side better than my demon side, since I grew up in the elven forest, my father guiding me. No doubt he had been over the top in explaining my heritage, ensuring I understood what it meant to be elven royalty, since he’d fucked up and had an affair with a lust demon who, nine months later, deposited me on his doorstep and walked away.
He didn’t want me to make the same mistake.
Unfortunately for him, my mind and body hadn’t gotten the memo that when my potential mate came along, she ought to be an elf.
“What were you doing with all those vampires?” Daruka abruptly asked.
“Oh, Poe and his buddies? Just taking them over to Liverpool for the evening.”
“Why? Also, is mirror travel the only way to get to Liverpool from here? What about that boat?”
“Ready to leave already?” I played it off like I was amused, but inside I was clenching my fists and gnashing my teeth at the idea of her slipping through my fingers before I had the chance to convince her we were mates.
She rolled her eyes. “I just like to have an escape route, that’s all.”
Mrs. Caldwell and the headmistress’s overheard conversation popped into my head, but I didn’t ask. No doubt Daruka wouldn’t tell me anyway.
“Come on,” I said, motioning for her to follow me. “Let’s go to Buckie’s. I could use a drink.”
Now that the adrenaline was wearing off, hanging out in this alley was giving me ideas.
“What’s Buckie’s?” she asked, although she fell into step with me as I hung a right and headed down the cobbled sidewalk.
“It’s a pub. They also have billiards. A dance floor, if that’s your thing.”
“It isn’t.”
That didn’t surprise me.
“But a beer sounds pretty good right now. Or maybe shots.”
Although it was Saturday night, it was pushing two in the morning, so the place wasn’t crowded. Everyone but the diehards—and the vampires—was making their way to their homes to either sleep it off or sleep with someone they’d managed to pick up through their impressive billiards skills or, more likely, too many shots.
A faint tinkling noise heralded our arrival when I opened the door and stepped to the side to allow Daruka to go in first.
