Chapter 58 CHAPTER 58
I didn't know what I was expecting, but I sat there for a good hour and at some point, I became genuinely interested in the book I was reading.
It was some fiction about a love story between a Fae and a Dragon kin, something I've learned is quite forbidden with how Master Florian is treated.
If I could put my claws into the nose of everyone who has hurt him for something he has no control over, I'd be a happy girl.
When the book finished with me cleaning a stray tear furiously from my face, I threw it on the table and got up.
“This was quite a dumb move,” I whispered under my breath as I got up, ready to head back to bed like a normal human when I noticed a pair of eyes from a bookshelf.
Watching me.
“How long have you been staring at me from there?”
“You were engrossed in the book and didn't even notice me so I understood that feeling and didn't want to disrupt your immersion in a good book.”
“Zade, I'm not much of a fiction reader, you should have –”
“Why?”
“Why what?”
“Aren't you a fiction reader? You clearly like the genre and you looked so lost in the world the author created. That sort of escape is… magical.”
“That's for you who have the luxury of an escape. I needed to be present, or… Why did you come to the class today? You rarely come out of this place.”
“I do come out, my sister forces me to do that once a month.”
“You have a sister?”
“Yes, a pesky little thing that won't let me be. But you're switching this, why did you stop coming to the library?” He asked, coming out of the other side of the shelf and I inhaled deeply, my stomach making that weird upturning.
When I'd seen him earlier, he was a bit far from me, and my eyes were still zoning in on him when he walked away. But now, my natural and dragon kin eyes were assaulted at once, and I couldn't get past how breathtaking his eyes were.
His entire body carried an aura that stimulated me in many ways, and it wasn't until he touched my face, lifting my jaw slightly so I was looking into his eyes again, that I could regain control of my mind.
“Was it because of what I said? Did I chase you away with how I feel?” He breathed, too close, fogging my mind. “I can take it back, I swear, I don't want to cross boundaries or prioritize my feelings above yours. I'm sorry I didn't do it the right way, you've barely gotten here and I'm already dumping my confused heart on you. One moment it wants nothing to do with anyone and the next it can barely beat except you're near me. I should have –”
His words, his hand touching my skin, the emotions in them, the way he was scared to hurt my feelings, how close he was to me made me…
I couldn't explain what pushed me, but it did push me to my toes, and I stopped his rambling with my lips.
At first, he was hesitant and I was sure I'd behaved like an idiot and would get thrown out of the Academy’s gates but I realized he was just shocked and then when he shook it off, he retaliated, swallowing my worries, my senses, and kissed me as hungrily.
But then…
What am I doing? What the fuck am I doing kissing Zade?
He's an instructor, only second to the Principal.
The Principal!
I'm attracted to the Principal too, and Master Florian!
But I can't stop, not even thoughts of Jake can get through to my mind, I was awed by how soft Zade's lips were, the way he held me gently, the way our bodies moved in sync, and the sting in my neck burned so good, especially with his hand rubbing it.
I ground my chest on him, and we both groaned, and our lips sucked and dragged the kiss on and on.
Maybe because we knew once we disconnected, there would be questions we couldn't answer.
But I still needed oxygen or I might not get to explore this living for more than a century thing I discovered about my kind.
So when I pulled back, shame and wonder and lust warred in my head.
And you might have guessed it right, but I ran like something was after me.
“See you tomorrow, Alira,” he whispered and of course, my stupid sensitive ears picked it up.
Not as if he needed to say it, I would have been here.
That kiss unlocked something in me that made zero sense but it made me want Zade, crave, desire, all the words that describe the pull that wanted me to turn around right now and go back there and keep kissing him.
But I stepped towards the other side of the second aisle and headed towards the exit.
I looked up and realised the door was shutting close, someone had just walked out of here.
“Fuck!” I cursed, my heart suddenly beating wildly for a completely different reason.
What if whoever it is saw us?
Very stupid question, of course they saw us. These species were extremely intelligent, their senses able to pick the pheromones that were flowing from Zade and me, and we were nearly eating each other up back there.
I headed towards the door again, I would face the consequences later on, but I noticed a small piece of paper lying on the ground.
It's a library, that shouldn't be such a big deal but Zade ran a tight ship here, I've never seen a single litter before and this looked too clean to be a useless piece of paper so I bent over and picked it up.
After all, I would be happy to figure out whoever this was through their writing and maybe I can go and explain things to them and hopefully they don't tell the entire school that I was kissing their Instructor.
If the opposite happens, even if that portal refuses to open, I would have to jump into that volcano in the middle of the mountain rather than deal with the ridicule from these uptight students.
I looked at the paper again, at how nearly it was folded, and how small it was, and frowned.
Then I took myself out of the misery by tearing it open.
“You're not without a lineage, but you're of a forbidden one. Alira Skye Zhar.”
“What the hell is this?” I wondered out loud as I walked out of the library.
A forbidden lineage in this type of place made zero sense. Why would a lineage be forbidden? An entire lineage?
There's literally a Fae-dragon mix among them and they're condemning one of them in such a time of war?
And how can I be a part of such a lineage?
It suddenly hit me, if this is accurate, which I hope for god's sake is wrong and this person is just fucking with me, I'll be like Master Florian, ridiculed for what I have no control over, or worse, I'll be taken for a dragon flight and thrown to my death with no healing pool beneath me.
“Well, there's no harm in knowing a little bit about it now, is there?” I whispered as I pushed the door open.
Only Erin was still awake, thankfully.
“You've been staying out beyond curfew a lot these days, very soon the Principal will stop treating you with such hooded eyes with how thin you're stretching his patience.”
“I'm sorry I didn't know the curfew was such a tight one, and I was taking extra training.”
“That ended with Master Florian leaving for the Borderlands.”
“I didn't want to stop training even though he was gone. But I'll stop now, I promise. Are you alright? You sound really upset.”
“My… my sister is sick. Well, more like on her way to the other side. She's caught the bug.”
I folded the paper and put it away, and guilt replaced my curiosity.
“The bug?”