“There are, yes.” I agreed, chilling out and letting her advice settle. “If you have someone in particular we would want to befriend, and maybe has some dirt on their hands, but isn’t dirty, I’d love to hear it.”
“I’ll speak with Alpha Geoff. He’ll know best. You have the best in with the hobgoblins and I suggest you use it. Everyone loves to be around them, and they could use some more security now that you’re rescuing them all. People will react to them being ‘stolen,’ and soon.”
It was my turn to smirk. “Fuck, I hope they do. My dogs need to be fed after all.”
My good deed for the day was making her laugh when she was so heartbroken.
22
“What’s going on, agra?” Darby asked me as I led him through the portal to home.
“A secret.” It was, but honestly we needed a break. It had been another week of too much drama and shit, and I wasn’t sure which of our heads were going to pop first.
We had called it right with Izzy’s parents, and they had shown up at school, demanding Izzy stop throwing fits and tearing into her right in the middle of everyone who would love the show. My heart had hurt when I saw my friend want to die of embarrassment right there and then.
I had stormed right over and called them an embarrassment of parents before wrapping them in a barrier and calling security. Everyone was appalled by my behavior—especially Instructor McGrath, from his thoughts—but I reminded them that they didn’t pay for Izzy’s education. She had cut ties with them. They weren’t alums of the school.
So in what world were they just allowed on campus to verbally accost a student? They had to come to campus because she’d changed her number and moved to where they couldn’t get her. Yeah, that screamed she wanted to see them. Artemis wasn’t an open campus.
I was doing my civic duty by tossing out the trash, and I said that loudly for the Kincaids to hear.
The supe news had gotten a “tip” that the council had raided Calloway’s houses in retaliation for her going against their orders and telling everyone what they did. So they were handling that mess for the moment.
And there was still the mess of the hobgoblins being stolen.
Basically, there were a fuck ton of issues, and I was at the center of most of them—my fault or not—I was.
So my boyfriend was as well. We needed a night off, and I’d asked Irma for some help with that. The hobgoblins were back at campus now, and we had the whole house to ourselves, a fully stocked fridge… And plans for a weekend I hoped we’d never forget.
“I like secrets when you’re involved, but I’m also worried about you,” he muttered, watching as I locked the portal. “Your guards aren’t here.”
“I know. I talked to them. Two packs of fae dogs are here, and Zack can unlock the portal in an emergency, but this is our time.”
He opened his mouth but then closed it. “I don’t even know how to lock a portal and give someone a specific key to unlock it.”
“It’s a fairy thing.” I shrugged. It was, and I honestly didn’t understand how I did it. I simply did. I moved my fingers over his lips when he went to say more. “Darby, I’m about to show you the secret. Do you want to see it or keep grilling me?”
He rolled his eyes at me. Of course he wanted to see it.
It was as if fate also knew we needed the night off because we were having unseasonably warm weather… Which meant we could use the pool.
And I planned to.
Naked.
Darby got clued in pretty fast when I started stripping at the kitchen and left a trail of clothes for him to follow.
I turned to face him when I was without anything left to take off and at the edge of the pool. “The secret is your girlfriend wants you inside of her all weekend. I’m aching for my boyfriend. You game?”
I didn’t wait for his answer, jumping backwards into the pool. I opened my eyes when I touched the bottom and looked up as I had months ago when he’d brought me to one of my resorts for a time out when I’d needed it. Moments later, he dove into the pool after me, snagging me around the waist and pulling me up to the surface.
He barely gave me enough time to gasp for air before his mouth was on mine. Pressing me up against the wall of the pool, he ground his naked body against me. I wrapped my leg around him and even moved his hand lower as if telling him to hurry up.
“I am not rushing this,” he growled against my lips.
“Please?” I whimpered. “Please fuck me, Darby. We can go slow and foreplay and make love and whatever later, but I so, so want you.”
“I want you too, agra, but we said slow and our pace. I need to know what changed,” he muttered. “Are you okay? I—we just got back together. I didn’t know you were even thinking of—”
“I was,” I promised. I had been thinking of this already. I truly had.
And then he had kicked the shit out of some students from the exchange program that were in our Power Training I class who were taking shots at me behind my back. He didn’t think I knew about it, and I hadn’t wanted to start problems for Mel, but my prickly pear had laid the smack down. It had been making me vibrate with need for my already plotted plans since it had happened
