Page 109 of Moon Kissed

Nia took one look at Vega and screamed.

“Or not,” I muttered, shaking my head. “Ugh, don’t make a big deal about it. He was on the list. Had to be done.” Bending down, I rescued the sleeping pills. “Here, take these. When youwake up, call for help, and say he must’ve slipped and broken his neck while you were out. You didn’t see anything and there’s nothing you could’ve done.”

“But—but—but you killed him,” she screeched. “Just like that. You didn’t even hesitate!”

“And I won’t lose sleep over it either.” I beamed at her, placing her pills firmly on her palm. “Villain era, babe. Get on board, or get left behind.” I swept out, fluttering my fingers at her over my shoulder. “Toodles.”

A WEEK PASSED, ANDeverything was going according to my plan.

The plan to drive Edric out-of-his-mind insane like he did to me—that is.

“I did everything you asked for, baby.” I ran my fingers through his hair, listening to his low, furious growl like a rumbling bass. “I extorted the council for the money just like you told me to.”

“Will you keep your voice down?” he hissed, eyes darting around the classroom.

I winced. “Oh, sorry, baby. Please don’t be mad at me.”

“Stop that! Stop that or I’ll—”

“No, please,” I whimpered, drawing the eye of everyone in the immediate vicinity. “Don’t spank me again.”

Edric shoved up and walked away. Laughing, I tackled him back into his seat and sat on his lap. The growling began anew even as his cock rose to meet me.

“Is there a problem back there?” Raza called.

“Nope.” I wiggled on Edric’s lap, ripping a raspy grunt out of him. “No problem at all.”

“Why am I so turned on by this?” Edric shouted down the bond, making me snort. He’d been wrestling with his equal partsloathing and lusting after me the entire week, and it was nothing short of entertaining.

The show over, everyone else returned to the lesson except for Paxton sitting down in front. He kept right on staring.

In the week since I named myself Headmistress Volana, a lot of changes had transformed Corvin Academy.

The first thing I did after accidentally bonding with Edric was released Badr, Paxton, and Orion. I didn’t want to use the trials for my own personal vendettas, so I let them go, making myself look like even more of a saint in the process. But that wasn’t all.

Blatantly ripping off mundane colleges, I had all the courses and tracks changed so that students could take classes based on their interests—not their wolves.

The first thing Nia did after making a full recovery was first lie and tell everyone she had no idea how the nurse died, and then she dumped all the omega classes she was forced to take, and signed up for the classes that used to be for the betas. She was now taking creative writing, screenwriting, and art classes in hopes of both writing her first play, and then bringing it to life.

The omega dorms had also all been vacated since I put the empty rooms in the beta, epsilon, and alpha dorms up for grabs. Along with that, I put an end to the different meals for different shifter wolves, and now everyone was eating gourmet.

But even though all the changes were positive and the betas and alphas lost nothing, they bitched and moaned about it like nothing else. Blah blah blah all day long about me trampling on tradition, betraying the ancestors, giving the fishes false hope, and wasting my time on changes that were never going to stick after the alpha council blew in and put everything back the way it belonged.

Speaking of the alpha council, I didn’t confiscate everyone’s cellphones or computers, so the first thing they did was go whining and complaining to their mommies and daddies.Sunella called Dagem’s office the first thing the morning after Edric and I hooked up.

I answered on the second ring.

“Good morning, Sunella.”

“Makena? Is that you?”

“Afraid not,” I chirped. “It’s Daciana. Remember me? We bonded when you pardoned me for murder.”

Silence reigned on the other end.

“Sunella?” I sang, spinning in Dagem’s desk chair. “I’m sure you called for a reason. Let’s hear it.”

“Where’s Makena?” she dropped, voice hard. “What did you do to her?”

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