Page 73 of Wings of Ashes
“It might be wise to skip your next class, Miss Oadess. There can be side effects to a strong reversal potion. Especially, after guzzling it like a mortal at a fraternity party.”
Nix huffed but nodded.
She knew Professor Bowen did not want to see more of her impulsive, disobedient side if he agreed to help her.
What he did not know would not hurt him.
As if I am missing combat practice after realizing this timeline is uncertain.
29
CHAPTER
“What’s with the constant hair changes?” Nix’s least favorite classmate, Graeves, asked in a taunting tone as she strode up to the practice field with damp, muted raspberry-colored hair.
Nix felt a little strange after gulping the professionally-made reversal potion. However, so far, the only noticeable change was her hair turning more red than pink. She had showered the strawberry milk away and marveled at how her skin seemed to glow under the water.
Please, gods, let this potion have me waking up a new woman tomorrow, she wished. She did not want to look in the mirror and see someone who looked like Elle or the Oadess family.
If the reversal works…will Persius recognize me then?
Graeves ran his gaze over Nix’s combat uniform—a pair of shorts and a cotton T-shirt—and scratched over the crotch of his shorts as he added, “I don’t know if you know this, but men tend to prefer blondes. I’m already a lot less attracted to you now.”
“Thank gods I changed it then, huh?” Nix said to herself at a low volume. Of course, the shifters had good enough hearing to pick it up.
“Oh, please,” Graeves shot back. “You’d be lucky to suck my dick.”
Nix’s blood heated in her veins as she debated speaking back to him. His group of tall, strong alpha males around him, and the professor nowhere in sight, suggested Nix maybe shouldnotraise her voice and call the asshole an asshole.
“I heard you orgasmed from nothing but eye contact in the Gargoyle’s class,” Graeves commented, and several of the guys around him chuckled.
Fuck him.
Instead of backing down, Nix looked right at him and deadpanned, “It was really good eye contact.”
The guys’ amused expressions turned to confusion. Had they thought she would sputter and blush and run away?
The self-centered alphas needed to be taught a lesson. This was a new Nix—much more vicious.
“Are you fucking Baelfire?” Graeves asked. “Because if so, you should really tell us. We need to know when you become damaged goods.”
“Funny how you guys will sleep with anything that moves but demand a virgin wife,” Nix remarked.
“Do you know who my father is, Ugly Fuckling?” Graeves snorted, smirking. “I have my pick of the flock. I have no need to settle for some nest slut who gives it up to any alpha who gives her attention.”
Thatpissed Nix off. It hit a sore spot for her because in her past life. Back then, she had thought shedidhave to give it up to earn a husband.
She had given “it” up after having been told that the alpha would take care of her and protect her after graduation.He lied.
Back then, she had believed everything she had been taught—that her role as a female prey shifter was to serve alphas. That it was an “honor” to be chosen by one.So great that turned out for me.
“The women sleeping with your desperate, entitled, prick ass are doing so for survival,” Nix told him gravely.
“As they should,” Graeves replied.
Her breath…left her.
Nix could hear her heartbeat in her eardrums. “What did you just say?” Her ever-present rage tingled under her skin; her pores prickled with it.
