I thought maybe I hadn’t handled it right when he pulled out of me, but then he kissed me gently. Darby joined us, and they washed me, confusing me even more.
“We want you together,” Lucca explained when we were done.
“Not like that,” Darby hurried to say when I gave them a panicked look. I was not ready for anal sex yet, and they were both huge.
And then I panicked because that meant oral sex, and I still wasn’t ready for that either. It was mean, but well, it wasn’t just how I’d seen men treat women after getting it, but what I’d experienced with almost being raped and sexually assaulted a few times.
“Not like that either, kitten,” Lucca murmured, guessing where my head went. He licked his lips when I looked at him. “Darby said you once—”
“Remember when you nuzzled me, agra?” Darby cut in. “We want that. I hoped you might do that while your mate takes you. I want to be part of you guys together and see him please you.”
I slowly nodded. I could do that. I felt completely sure when they both checked with me and made it clear I really didn’t have to. That was seriously sweet, and I appreciated it. For real.
We climbed on my bed, and I crawled over Darby, who was sitting up against my headboard. I kissed him, and then down his body, licking his abs as I pushed my ass up and offered myself to Lucca.
An offer he gladly took.
I was moaning in pleasure when I moved lower and nuzzled Darby’s groin. I gave the base of his cock a few kisses, and then his balls. I sucked up a few marks as I stroked him, and all of that was completely fine with me, but that had to be the line for right then. They seemed more than okay with that.
When Lucca finished, I climbed right on my boyfriend and rode him, smacking his hands away and smirking at him. He was primed, so he came fast.
“Better than you pictured?” I asked him.
“Yes,” they said together.
Well, okay then. Nice.
I teased Lucca about the overnight bag, but enjoyed when he “convinced” me he should get to stay as well. I wanted him to anyways, which they both knew, and I was glad he did.
We had fun. We needed more fun.
So, of course people had to fuck it up for us.
Darby and I had left through the faculty portal—always careful of McGrath, who stalked it for the chance to see the runes needed to get to my house—but returned through the portal in the student union. I could take the power and immediately wipe where we came from without anyone knowing, so it was safe and didn’t risk us walking into something.
Plus, a student manned the booth there and teachers were around the other one. I didn’t trust all of them, and they could read magic enough that it could be a problem.
I learned from my mistakes as much as I could.
Others—apparently—did not. Or, more aptly, the mistakes of others.
Magic was thrown at us the moment we stepped out of the student union and hit the barrier I always kept up around me now. I sighed and glanced at the idiot who had tried it. I did a double take when I heard his thoughts, already having my telepathy on, talking to Darby in his mind since we were plotting.
“A full ride to Artemis for your whole family and a cushy job with your council after graduation if you can figure out what I am, huh?” I taunted the guy. “That’s quiet the deal the fox elders are offering. They think they can wheel and deal with that knowledge and get a leg up since they’re one of the smallest shifter groups?”
He glanced from his hands to me. “How can a sophomore unknown stand up to a master’s student? What kind of charm are you using for that barrier?”
I snorted. “Yeah, I’m so going to tell you, idiot. And it’s not a charm, but my magic.” I shook my head when he tried to argue. “I’ve fended off council aides, dumbass. Keep up. You don’t think anyone’s tried this shit? We’ve been here and people have done this. This was my whole last year, and no one found out.”
“And a lot of us are tired of it,” Natalie said firmly as she stepped out from the now gathered crowd. “We were all ready to move past this bullshit and learn what we should. Instead, all of you assholes are ruining what should be a nice program to stop the class division. Screw what the elites see it as. That’s what this program could be. Instead, you’re all focused on Tamsin and what you might get.”
“Hope it was worth your shot to take classes here,” a dragon I didn’t know said as he stepped up too. “Because enough of us witnessed it as you also did it so publicly.”
The guy sneered at him. “Of course I did. She’s always guarded and—”
“Yeah, because of assholes like you,” I drawled.
“It ends!” Hudson roared from my right, and I doubted I was the only one who about jumped out of their skin. He was a very large man who sounded really scary if he wanted to. He moved forward and stared down the guy and group of exchange students behind him. “It ends, and not just with you getting kicked out of the program.”
The guy stupidly mocked him. “You have no rule here, Prince.”
“She has the protection of my family and all the dragon royals and leading families,” Hudson announced loudly. “A few stupid pranks weren’t something to get pissed about, but an upperclassman just openly used a magical attack because
