Page 37 of My Demon Teacher
“My hands have been nowhere. My tail, on the other hand…” I concentrate for half a second, put a little pressure on my tailbone, and my tail comes out to play. I might have to invest in new pants with an opening for my tail because I can’t keep ripping all of them.
I run the tip behind Jace’s ear, and he jumps off the couch.
“You’re disgusting. Put that thing away. Now!”
As Jace glares, Lucian presses me closer to him and bites my earlobe.
“No one plays with my tail,” he growls in my ear.
That certainly doesn’t help the boner situation, but I obey and pull back my tail, draping it over the back of the sofa. It swings left to right, the motion and excitement giving me goosebumps. It’s so strange having an appendage with a mind of its own. Well, another appendage.
“There. Better now?” I ask.
Jace grimaces and slowly sits back down.
“No. It’s not better now.”
“Come on. You know I clean it in between…sessions, right?”
Lucian coughs, the vibration of his chest making me bite my tongue.
I don’t know what it is, but I’ve changed since last week, since I bonded with Mr. Tails. In fact, I don’t even hear its voice anymore. Or have those images that somehow translate to words in my head. It’s like…
It’s like it and I have become…one. And that’s made me more confident, more salacious. More…fearless.
I can’t say I dislike it. It’s better than being overwhelmed by fear on a daily basis. But I guess it’s made me a little sassier, a fact Lucian dislikes, especially when he’s not the subject of my flirtation.
Not that I’m flirting with Jace. I’m just teasing. Which I guess is a whole new level to our friendship neither of us is used to.
“Maybe you do, but do I need to remind you that thing has been through Ryan’s brain? I’d like it away from any parts of my body, thank you very much.”
I roll my eyes and nuzzle against Lucian.
“I cleaned it after that too.”
“That’s not that point.” Jace shudders. “By the way, the spell seems to have worked all around. Everyone on campus keeps wondering where they are. Even those who were there when all three of them died.”
Shortly after proposing to me, Lucian got to work creating a spell in the school lab and cast it over the whole dormitory so everyone forgot what happened in the past few hours while Brimfang took care of the bodies and I cleaned the blood from Ryan’s room.
Which means everyone woke up the next day having no clue where the three witches were. I also reported the gym events to the dean, and he concluded that Ryan and his friends had run away to avoid punishment.
“Yeah, well, that’s my baby. He knows how to take care of business.”
Jace looks up at Lucian, narrows his eyes, and nods slowly.
“Yeah. He does, doesn’t he?”
At first, I was worried the spell hadn’t worked, that it was too big, too ambitious, but the fact that no one’s pointed their finger at us proves me wrong.
Once again, Lucian has protected me. He saved my life, and once again, I owe him everything. Without his and Jace’s help, I’d be dead. Or worse, a prisoner of Ryan and his lackeys.
But I’m not.
I’m free and stronger than ever.
Thanks to my demon charming. I smile and hug my future demon husband close.
He’s my everything.
Forever and after.
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