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“Former High Commander,” I said, although I didn’t know why I cared about that or why she would either. I cringed at how pompous my words sounded, and then hurried to say something that was less obnoxious. “But, yes, I did offer to help. Volt and Kann were talking about how they wished they could find someone who had pulled off an escape mission into Kronock territory. They mentioned Kax, and I remembered that my father had connections with Kax’s clan.”
She nodded along with everything I said, but I got the sense that she wasn’t focusing on my words. That, or she knew this already. The real question was why this information would bother her so much. “Why does this upset you, Jess?”
She blew out a breath. “I thought it might be something you’d mention to me.”
“I didn’t think to mention it. We have been very focused on tutoring.”
She drew in a quick breath. “If we’re going to do this,” she waved a hand between us, “then I think we should know more about each other.”
“What do you want to know about me?”
She frowned. “I don’t know, but I’d like to know important things like you helping Ariana. Have you had any success?”
Shame tickled the back of my neck at the reminder that I had not even asked my father, mostly because he had not responded to my attempts to talk to him. I had little doubt that he was still angry that I was a Blade. “Not yet.”
She narrowed her eyes at me. “If you promised to help Ariana, you have to do it.”
As much as I hated being reprimanded by a fellow cadet, and as much as my former self would have snapped back with a cutting, superior remark, Jess was right. I had to try harder. “I promise I will succeed.”
She grinned at this. “In case you’re curious, I’m also helping her. Morgan and I are researching possible places her sister might be held by the Kronock.”
Now I understood a bit of her irritation. Why had I not know that she was doing this? “Is this why you’re always at the Stacks?”
“Sometimes I’m studying for my classes, but a lot of the time it’s for that. There are a lot of potential places.” Her gaze finally drifted lower, and she seemed to realize that I was barely dressed. Her lashes fluttered as her gaze lingered on my thickening cock. “And then I’m with you almost every night.”
I stepped closer to her. “I didn’t think tonight would be one of them.”
“I guess I needed to see you,” she said as she nibbled her lower lip.
“Because you thought I was keeping things from you?” Now that I’d gotten over the surprise at her arrival and questioning, I loved the fact that she’d stormed into my room demanding answers. It meant that I was more to her than someone she was forced to tutor or someone she was sleeping with for the sport of it.
“I was surprised that you kept secrets.” She put one hand to my chest. “I didn’t know a Blade had it in him to be sly.”
I laughed at this. “We’re not just big and dumb.”
“I know that.” She sounded almost offended, but she grinned at me as she trailed her fingertips down my taut stomach. “Just big.”
“So, you didn’t come to tutor me?” My voice was hoarse as she brushed her fingers over my swollen cock through the fabric of my underwear.
“I think you might be as proficient as a Blade needs to be in Kronock. From what I’ve seen of other Blades, they aren’t worried about mastering the language.”
My cock ached for release so urgently that I didn’t even care she’d discovered that my reason for being tutored was an exaggeration at best and a fabrication at worst. I stifled a husky sound in my throat as her fingers stroked me through the fabric. “Then we might have a problem.”
“What problem?”
“If I don’t need Kronock lessons then I don’t know what reason you’d have to be here.” I closed my hand over her nimble fingers, pressing her palm fully to my cock. “You don’t seem to need any lessons from me on how to arouse a Drexian.”
She squeezed her hand around my cock. “I might know how to arouse you, but I think that’s the easy part.”
She might have a point. I’d started to get aroused by her mere presence in my room.
“I don’t know how to do everything you like, but I want to learn. I want you to teach me to be perfect in bed.”
I wanted to tell her that she was already perfect. I wanted to make her promise to be perfect for no one but me. I wanted to tell myself that this perfect female would never belong to anyone else but me, but the deepest, darkest part of myself knew that wasn’t possible. I knew my clan would never allow it.
But for now, Jess was mine, and I would savor every moment of making her mine. I cupped her face in one hand and dragged my thumb across her curvy, soft lips. “Then let’s start with your perfect, little mouth. I have just the place you can put those pretty lips.”
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