Page 38 of Virgo Queen
Not only with my life and my secrets.
But with my heart.
Clearly picking up what I’m putting down, like the wickedly gifted telepath he is, Jae purrs like a swamp panther and crawls forward to straddle my hips. I can’t feel much of his anatomy with the bearskin between us. But he cradles my upturned face between his hard hands and stares fiercely into my eyes with hisamber gaze. His bayou scent of patchouli and moss swamps my senses.
“You saved my life, you,” he breathes, all fixated and intense. “It’s like myamoutold you last night. It’s the three of us now,chere.Your enemies, if they come, they are ours to kill. You won’t get rid of us.”
“Lucky for me, I don’t want to get rid of you,” I say lightly. Because right now, that’s my truth, and I’ve decided to own it. “But protecting me from my enemies… that’s something else. That’s actually asking a lot for the two of you to take on.”
“Who’s asking,hjartfólgin?” Draco snorts. “Shit’s decided, you feel me?” His pale brows furrow in an uncertain frown. “Unless, uh, you’re not into the two of us?”
There’s my escape hatch from this unconventional relationship popping open. If I wanted one.
The thing is… I don’t.
Besides, if I really am going to be queen of my kind someday—Queen of the Light-Born Fae—then I’ll eventually need a harem.
But it’s definitely early days for that kind of thinking.
So it’s my turn to snort. “Yeah, no. I’m into you. Both of you. After last night, pretty much the whole school knows we’re a thing.”
Draco’s worried brow smooths out. His lids lower and he sweeps my sleep-rumpled body, swimming in his own shirt, with a slow possessive stare that shimmers like the northern lights.
“Bon bagay.” Jae bares his fangs in a fierce werewolf grin. “Your bullies, they are history. Or I swear, my wolf, he will gnaw on their bones.”
“Geez, no gnawing.” I manage a wry grin for both of them. “Pretty sure, with you two looming over me, every bully in theschool will back right off. Or at least, if they don’t, I guess now I can fly away.”
Actually, with my wings manifesting and my power emerging the way I’m experiencing, the Academy bullies now seem like the least of my concerns.
But even my lurking girlhood fear of getting stolen away in the night by the Dark Fae seems like a distant worry for a later time. With Draco Mars shifting around to situate himself behind me and settle me snugly between his spread knees, and Jae Labête crouching over both of us to exchange slow hot kisses with both Draco and me…
Oh my gosh.
These sweet, sultry, fangy kisses make my whole body melt in a goopy puddle of affection and arousal.
Yep. That right there’s the feeling.
The feeling of me falling for these two.
Hard.
And maybe that feeling is enhanced by Jae’s Valyrian telepath DNA kicking in. Because I have the strongest, strangest sense that both these bad boys are falling for me too.
I don’t have any remaining room for doubt.
These two guys together will ruin me.
Me. Mallory McSnicker. First Girl on the Dean’s List. Secret Queen of the Light-Born Fae. And one third of the newest polycule to roil the still waters of the witch academy.
Jae lifts his mouth from my tingling lips and grins into my dazed stare.
After a kiss like that, I need to reach down deep to find my resolve and reclaim my academic sense of duty.
But, somehow, I manage.
“I… can’t stay in bed with you two all day.” Do I even sound convincing? “I need to study… we all do… for midterms.”
“It’s early yet. Study later. Stay here with Draco a little longer,oui?” my wolf breathes, low and husky. “I’ll bring both of youcafé au laitandbeignetsin bed.”
