Page 6 of The Darkness in the Magi

Chapter 4

SOPHIE

“Pardon?” The word tumbles from my mouth before I can even think on what he just said.

“Not so agreeable, I see,” he scoffs.

“It’s just…I don’t understand…”

“Get on your knees, magi, and learn what it is to be humbled.”

Still confused, I obey, bowing my head to avoid his gaze.

Perhaps he wants me to pray to the Great Magus with him, but that seems entirely unlikely. Acts of devotion are typically done in a circle, with joined hands.

Lucius takes a step closer, his hands moving to his trousers to undo the button keeping them up.

There’s no way…

There’s just no way…

After popping the button, he undoes the ties and pulls his pants down just enough to take his sex out.

I blink, wondering if I’m somehow imagining this because of all the wardens that have ever graced the coven, Lucius would be the very last one to give in to carnal temptation.

But a feeling in my chest tells me that’s not true. There’s a hunger emanating from him I’ve only felt glimpses of over the years. Feelings best left buried, as the mavens would say.

Shadows seep from my runes, swirling, looking like treacherous beasts.

Where stygians walk, fear is sowed.

But Lucius fears nothing.

“Open your mouth,” Lucius instructs.

“You don’t mean to stick it in there, do you?” I ask, perplexed.

“Where else would I put it?”

“Where it’s supposed to go.”

Lucius chuckles dryly, which is almost as mind-boggling as his lust for flesh, because a moment ago, I would have sworn he was incapable of experiencing humor.

“My cock goes where it pleases me, and it would please me very much to have you suck upon it.”

He can’t be serious. But…he’s not lying. I can tell by our connection.

I would understand if it were my sex that he wanted. Wardens are men, after all, and often have lustful needs. But what he’s asking of me is…lewd.

Perhaps he knows something I don’t. Outside of rudimentary drawings, I’ve never so much as seen a penis before, and I wouldn’t have known to call it a cock.

Odder still, I’m not turned off by his request.

“I see my magi is not as compliant as she’d so boasted,” he says, tucking his cock back in his pants.

“Wait!”

He arches a brow. “Are you commanding me now?”

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