Chapter 69 CHAPTER 69
We didn't discuss what happened anymore, my sobs died down along the way to the hostel and when we got closer to where people were, I tapped his shoulder.
“I can take you in, no one will ask you questions,” he said but I vehemently refused.
“I'm already in enough trouble, thank you sir.”
“You are more powerful than you know, Sunshine. Anyone trying to hurt you knows it more than you too. They're just hoping you never discover how deep your power runs.”
None of that made any sense to me, I just wanted to go to bed and sleep this entire evening away.
Gosh, it was going so well, how did I end up ruining it?
“Thank you for…”
“Alira,” he stopped me, “can you do me a favour?”
“What's that?”
“Don't tell anybody about what happened tonight.”
“Didn't you just say you were okay with people knowing about us?” I asked, frowning.
“Oh not that part,” he grinned, “I was going to make you feel so much better but that's not what I'm focusing on. It's the power you unleashed.”
“That wasn't me, your fever overrun and –”
“It wasn't fever, I'm in heat. I… I discovered my inner voice or darkness as I called it, has been my dragon all this while. His essence poured into me when he died, he threw me into the sea that day, and he spent every part of himself ensuring I survived. Literally. His essence has been living inside me as a conscience and it's why I have his physical features.”
“Oh my God,” I gasped, “it makes way so much sense now.”
“I don't know why I didn't believe my instincts all this while but you gave him the boost he needed to step forward and merge with me instead of how… we used to live before.”
“So you're experiencing his heat?”
“In a way, yes. And that's why I know that power was all you. If he didn't help push back, your power could have killed me.”
“Oh my gosh,” I cried, covering my face.
“But you didn't baby,” he rushed forward, taking my hands in his, “you didn't. You unlocked something no one has in over fifty decades and I insist you keep it a secret. I'll explain when we see each other again. Tomorrow right?”
“Tomorrow,” I confirmed, my head hurting from the overload of information.
He kissed my forehead and I watched him walk away.
Then I began my journey to the place I called home for now.
I had no idea what I was going to say about the Library Instructor's scent that clung to every crevice of my being or why my clothes clung to my body, wet.
But I was tired, so damn tired that I feared I might fall while climbing those steps.
But thankfully I made it and the second I opened the door, I prepared for the onslaught of questions.
But none came, at least not from the two that were most interested in my sex life.
They weren't back yet.
Instead, Erin looked up from her bed as I got back and her face lit up.
“Alira! You're back, come come, I've got so much to tell you!” She gushed and I forced a smile back, shutting the door behind me.
“You guys are back already?”
“Yes, the Principal's horse flies, I swear I wasn't seeing the wind pass, everything was just blurry and I closed my eyes the rest of the journey.”
I remembered Styx’s speed and I smiled wider.
“You seem very happy, how did it go?”
“First of all, you're a godsend because I don't know how you pulled this off but I will have to find a way to repay you!”
I shook my head as I began taking off my clothes.
“I didn't do anything, I just brought it up with him and he said he'd handle it. Whatever that means.”
I was cleaning my body as she launched into the story.
“It wasn't just my family, five other families were lifted and dumped on his family estate in the Capital. Can you imagine that? No nobleman cares enough about anyone to do that!”
“He's kind from my interactions with him so I'm not too surprised.”
“It's not about kindness, it's just… out of sight out of mind or something, I saw that in a book somewhere. But they live in their own world and we live in ours. But you connected us.”
“Maybe some others will see this and decide to help too.”
“The king won't allow it. He loves his island free of poor people. My brothers will have to learn fishing and my sister will begin serving until she's old enough to join the academy. No one is going to be allowed to cross the border anymore.”
“That's messed up.”
“It's the way things are. I should make a breakfast basket and get it to him tomorrow morning, I don't know how else to show him my gratitude!” She squealed.
But a dark shadow passed by my eyes.
What the hell am I being jealous about?
But I remembered her riding behind him on Styx and I forced my eyes shut, stifling that feeling.
I'm with Zade now.
I told myself that over and over again, hoping I would believe it.
“I'm going to take a shower and I'll be back,” I told her, nearly running out of the room before I say something stupid.
“But you're just coming from a swim!”
Yes, but I smell like Zade and even if you're too animated with the Principal to notice, those other two hawks won't make the same mistake.
I didn't tell her that, of course.
“I still feel clammy and it was just a short swim,” I said, closing the door immediately.
It wasn't even a swim at all, Zade's tongue was the one doing all the swimming inside me.
That feeling rolled into my head again and I nearly moaned out loud.
The whole freezing thing had denied me the enjoyment of the memory then but now that I had some time to… breathe, the memories came back with a vengeance.
The way he held me apart, with hands and tail, his tail had a rubbery feel to it, and it was like every part of him was a pleasure organ.
‘Wait,’ I paused as I got to the entrance of the bathing pool, ‘am I sleeping with a dragon or his human?’
I wanted to find out more, to explore this raging need he'd opened inside of me but I feared I might clamp up again and say something worse that I might not be able to reverse.
‘Oh God!’ The realisation hit me out of nowhere, ‘I have a superpower. A controlling Superpower!’
And I don't know how to control it.
What if I accidentally kill somebody?
Again?