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Chapter 294
~Valerie’s POV~
I groaned a little loudly. "I swear, if either of you opens your mouth, I will hex your lockers shut with your heads inside."
Emerald stiffened beside me, clearly taking my threat half-seriously, but Isla, on the other hand, just grinned like the wicked little minx she was.
Her eyes sparkled with unspoken mischief, and her grip on my arm tightened, a signal that she was not done with me yet.
She was devious, and the heat crawling up my neck already gave me away.
"You’re not running," she whispered under her breath just as I tried to move away.
"I’m not running," I muttered back. "I’m surviving."
But then...
"Valerie," a familiar voice called behind me.
Shit.
I stiffened again.
Xade had walked up closer to us.
I turned slowly—too slowly—and there he was, looking way too smug for someone who supposedly had no idea what I was going through.
He approached us with that lazy confidence that made my knees threaten mutiny. His blue eyes flicked from Isla to Emerald before settling on me.
"Hey," he greeted casually.
"Hey," I echoed, a little too tight-lipped.
"Just about to leave?" he asked, eyes trailing down briefly like he was undressing me with just his thoughts.
"I... yeah. I need to... go somewhere."
"Where?"
Now that was a question I didn’t have an answer for. "Somewhere..." I repeated, already turning to flee.
But Isla, chaos incarnate, held my hand back and turned with a wide smile. "Xade," she said sweetly. Too sweetly.
He raised a brow, amused. "Yes?"
"Did you by any chance have an early breakfast this morning?"
I froze. My blood turned to ice. Where was she going with this??
I spun back to her, glaring daggers. "Isla."
But she wasn’t done. "I mean..." She grinned. "Did you eat Val out? You know, go down on her."
I choked on my saliva.
Literally.
My body jerked in surprise, and a strangled cough escaped my throat as I looked at her, mortified. "ISLA!"
Emerald gasped beside me, her jaw dropping and then slowly turning into a cackle as she covered her mouth.
Xade just... smiled. That dangerous, heart-thudding kind of smile that didn’t confirm anything, but made you feel like he knew everything.
"I didn’t know..." he began slowly, his eyes locked on me, "...she dreams of me intimately like this."
I covered my face with both hands.
He took a step closer. Then another. Until I could smell the faint hint of pine and dark amber that clung to his skin.
Leaning in so that only I could hear, his lips brushed the shell of my ear as he whispered,
"I’m jealous."
I froze. Breath caught.
"So jealous of your midnight lover," he continued, voice low, silken, dangerous. "I wish I were the one, Val. I really do. Because I’d enjoy eating you out till you cum endlessly on my tongue and writhe underneath me."
He narrowed his eyes. "Rough night?"
He didn’t seem convinced, but thankfully, he didn’t press. Instead, he leaned closer until his lips nearly grazed my ear. "You smell... different."
I stiffened.
He pulled back, watching me with suspicion that made my skin crawl.
I could sense the hesitation. He was trying his best not to do something and I was guessing last night effect hadn’t worn off either.
"Anyway. See you at training. I’m sure you saw we moved it to evenings during the last period to avoid the strain on students. Principal Whitmore and I had an early morning discussion on it."
"Yeah, I got the notification."
I nodded as my mind processed the reason why he had left on time for school.
"Okay, bye."
And then he was gone. I exhaled slowly, not sure if he hadn’t smelt my arousal instead.
I turned around, and took a quickly glance at Dristan’s retreating figure when I locked eyes with Xade instead.
He winked at me from across the hall.
I cursed silently.
Today was going to be anything but normal.
Successfully, I escaped some of the tension surrounding that day and the heat Astra tried so much to suppress until the close of school after our training session.
Ding.
I took out my phone from my trousers pocket and clicked on it when I got a message from Kai asking me to meet him up in their classroom before I left for school.
I didn’t think much about it until I arrived and as soon as I entered, I smelt trouble.
All the unique scents of my mates assaulted my nost
rils, kicking my heat into over drive and the mate bond’s pull worsened.
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