Page 59 of Wings of Ashes
“Is someone going to fill me in here?” Bael asked. “You just implied she might never be able to shift.”
Nix grabbed Bael’s wrist and guided his hand up to press the lollipop he held back to his mouth. “None of your business.”
The candy popped between his lips, acting as a muzzling gag, but he muttered around it, “Youare my business.”
Nix paused for a moment, looking into Bael’s penetrating red eyes. He really did seem tomeanhis words. Didn’t he just want to seduce her?
She told him, “Just because you are bored with your life does not mean you can attach yourself to mine for a good time.”
It only lasted a split second, but Nix swore Bael’s face winced with…hurt. She had not known that hurting the incubus’s feelings was possible. She had not known hehadfeelings.
Bael pulled the lollipop from his mouth, leaving sweet and sticky, red residue on his lips. “Why do you think I am bored with my life?”
She glanced up from his candy-glazed lips. How sweet would it be to lick the red away? “Hmm?”
“Why do you think I would have to be bored with my life to take an interest in yours?”
She opened her mouth then closed it.
“You are interesting. I like interesting things.” Bael stepped closer, eliminating any distance between them. His tongue lewdly dragged over the candied red sphere, swirling it in a salacious pornographic manner.
Bael then moved the slick lollipop over to her and tapped the warm sphere over her lips.Tap, tap. She inhaled sharply at the sensation and felt a tight, tingling begin in her lower abdomen.
“Don’t worry, Swan Lake,” Bael leaned in and whispered into her ear. His sinful voice was a tantalizing velvet that draped over her like a heavy, weighted blanket. “Once you become less interesting, I won’t want to learn all of your secrets and fuck you in your dreams. But until then…”
Professor Bowen cleared his throat, gathered their attention back to him, and gestured for them to leave. “Best not be late for your next class.”
“Thankfully, we have that one together, too.” Bael smiled evilly at her. “No escape,” he mouthed.
Professor Bowen asked, “Miss Oadess, I will see you after lunch?”
She blinked and glanced away from the hypnotic gaze of the incubus. “Um, yes, uh, thank you.”
“And please do not create any other reversal potions. You could hurt yourself.”
“Right.” She stuck her hand in her pocket and felt the hyssop she managed to take from the class. The perfect amount for one more dose.
Surely, it was fine if she made one more reversal potion in addition to what Professor Bowen concocted for her. Right?
I need to get this out of my system. She felt ill just from the knowledge that traces of the same poison her captor used on her for years of torture lingered in her bloodstream.
She needed to get strong and change her fate.
One more amateur potion won’t hurt.
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CHAPTER
“Just because you are bored with your life does not mean you can attach yourself to mine for a good time.”
Bael snorted at the memory of Nix saying that to him.
Of course,he was bored with his life. People were boring. Classes were boring.
It boggled his mind how students took notes and worried over tests and assignments every day while Bael knew what theyshouldworry about.
Flames. Screams. Smoke. Ash.
