Page 84 of Satanic Shadow
“A student. He was from the Fire Realm—that’s all I know.”
I nod. “Should I be freaked out? I mean, I’m not used to any of this, but I feel calm?”
She gestures to my hands. “Could be the curse Dane has been trying to extract. Me and Poppy have been doing our research, and we found that it tries to channel darkness, like it’s hunting for evil within one’s soul. Your emotions will be partially muted and your inhibitions lowered as a result, and you’ll have quite erratic dreams.”
I lift my hands, the tendrils barely visible from Dane taking most of it. It’ll get worse again, but for now, it’s manageable. “It’s a good thing I’m human then. The darkest my soul will ever get is from dodging my taxes.”
She blinks at me.
“We should go. We aren’t allowed on this side of the castle, especially not in the heirs’ tower.”
I snort. “Can the heirs be any more spoiled?”
“Well, Orsen did get offered a newer uniform, and even added that he could eat with the professors, but he said no because then he won’t see me.”
I follow her out of the room, closing the door with a click. “That’s kind of sweet.”
Looking at my friend and how she’s not towering over me like before, I frown. “Am I taller?”
My arm bumps hers, and she sniffs her skin, ignoring my question. “Please bathe when you get to your room. I can smell Dane on you. Why is it all over you if you didn’t have sex?”
I try to cover the last few hours as inexplicitly as possible as we make our way down the tower. The spiral staircase feels like it goes on forever.
Poppy joins us when we reach the bottom, and we go into the closest empty room so I can change into the clothes that don’t scream,I fucked someone last night!
I’ve done the awkward walk home on numerous occasions from Grayson’s apartment, but this is nothing like those times. We didn’t have sex, but I came with such a force that it’s still an echo in my nerves.
It wasn’t like any other orgasm. Each time I unraveled, it bounced off Dane, and then his orgasm sent tingles all over my body. It was like we were connected, a bridge of pleasure, a never-ending cycle of my pussy clenching around his fingers while his cock pulsed in my hand.
If our orgasms from foreplay were like a game of ping-pong, then what the hell is it going to be like when it gets more intimate?
The twins take me to the medic, and she checks me over, staring at the curse spreading on my hands, but her main concern is the strong trace of Dane all over my body.
I tell her I consented, especially since everyone currently thinks he’s a murderer.
She grows uncomfortable and asks if I’m on birth control when she realizes Dane’s cum is inside me, but when I try to explain we didn’t have sex, it opens up even more questions I refuse to answer.
After she gives me a contraceptive shot that makes me gag on fresh air at how large the needle is, she gives me more tampons than necessary. Poppy asks for some too so she can study them.Then the medic tells me to leave and rest, sending slips to all my teachers saying I’ll be off for a few days.
Poppy asks me again what I remember about Valin, but I come up empty. The same sequence of events he imprinted in my mind comes out instead.
Maybe he accidentally erased what my old foster family looked like too? Come to think of it, I can’t even remember their names. I try to picture them all, but it’s foggy, like there’s a blank canvas staring back at me.
“So you can’t remember anything Valin said or did?”
I shake my head. “I don’t even remember seeing him.”
Mel takes a deep breath. “We go to Valin and ask him straight out what he did. I can’t promise not to kill him, but I promise to wait until we have answers.”
If I was a powerful immortal with a violent, deadly bone in my body, I would try to kill him too. But if I even attempted to, he’d probably kidnap me again.
I thank my friends for walking me to my dorm then shut the door, rest my back on it and close my eyes. I breathe in the calm air, the smell of my room, the smoke from the candles.
Can you hear me?
It’s a long shot, but maybe he can tell me what to do to get rid of this curse on my own.
“Took your time.”
