Preorder Edition Bonus Chapters from Zodiac Academy #8
“If you want to go back and find your friends, I get it.” I squeezed her hand, and she interlaced her fingers with mine.
“Hm, well I quite like the sound of this other funfair. Is there a rollercoaster?”
“No, but there’s a slip and slide?” I offered.
She laughed again, and I tugged the door open so she could get in.
She dropped into my car, and she put the window up as she shut the door.
I took a breath, glancing at the stars and asking them to stretch this night into the longest one they could forge, then I shot around and dropped into the driver’s seat.
Silence fell, and I listened to the heavy thumping of Darcy’s heart before starting the engine and pressing my foot to the gas.
“Where’s Fran?” she asked lightly.
I released a laugh at the iciness she was trying to hide beneath those words. “You know, she’d really kill you if she heard you calling her that.”
She shrugged.
“She got called into work. Apparently, there was a Nymph sighting in east Tucana. The anonymous caller was very insistent,” I said, tilting my head innocently, and her mouth fell open.
“You didn’t?”
“I did.” I barked a laugh. “Where’s Polaris?” I asked darkly.
“We had an argument,” she said tersely.
“About?” I inquired, reaching over and placing a hand on her knee, despising that kid ever more.
“You,” she admitted, and my heart juddered over what she might have told him.
I shot her a concerned look. “He doesn’t know anything, does he?”
“Of course not, he just thinks I have a crush on you and that I’m pathetic for doing so. And a whore, apparently.”
That word sent my mind into a frenzy, awakening the more primitive instincts of my Order and urging me to do one thing and one thing only. Hunt.
My grip tightened on her knee as I warred with the feeling.
“Fuck that kid, I’ll tear him a new one the next time I see him,” I snarled.
“I might join you in that.” She rested her hand on mine and her touch was icily cold.
I wrapped her fingers in my hold with a frown.
“You’re freezing.” I cast a wave of warm air that rushed over her, and she shivered appreciatively.
I turned us down a dark road where the trees leaned overhead, creating a long tunnel that panned away into the shadows.
It seemed endless, yet I knew it wasn’t.
All roads had an end. Even ours. Especially ours.
But in this fracture of a moment, we were still moving forward, and I could at least enjoy the journey while it lasted.
“So have you forgiven me now?” I asked.
“Technically, you owed the apology to my sister,” she pointed out, and I gave her an incredulous look.
“By the stars, am I going to have to electrocute myself again for Tory Vega?”
She laughed. “You know that numb guy wasn’t hooked up to the mains, right? Well, he wasn’t until I hooked him up myself.”
“What?” I gasped, searching her expression for a lie.
“Yep.” She squeezed my fingers, a look of defiance crossing her eyes that had my cock hardening for her.
I pulled over to the side of the road and dragged her in for a kiss, crushing my lips to hers. Then I noticed the seatbelt was half choking her and quickly released it, pulling her closer and sinking my tongue between her soft lips.
She climbed into my lap, straddling me and clawing her hands into my hair as our kiss became more frantic. Fuck, I’d missed her. She tasted of sunlight, igniting my world in colour again at last, and I never wanted to return to the grey.
My hands slid under her dress, and she urged me on by lifting her hips, her fingers digging hard into my shoulders. A deep growl emanated from my throat as I found my way barred by her pantyhose, and I ripped a hole in them between her thighs, making her gasp.
“Orion!” she laughed, but her laughter turned to a moan as I found my way into her panties and pushed two fingers into her soaking heat. Between that sound and the feel of her tight, wet pussy around my fingers, I was already rock hard for her, aching to be inside her.
“You owe me a new pair,” she said breathlessly, leaning against me for support as I slowly pumped my fingers in and out of her, loving how ready she was for me.
“I’ll get you a whole new wardrobe if you make that noise again.”
“What noise?” she panted, and I pumped my fingers harder, drawing another greedy moan from her lips. It was full of a need I intended on sating again and again.
“That one,” I grunted, shifting my free hand between us to undo my jeans.
She arched upwards to give me room and her head banged against the roof. My laughter tangled with hers, and I removed my hand from her pantyhose, tugging her dress over her head, wanting to see her properly.
“Let’s get rid of these.” I tore her pantyhose in half, and she gasped as I peeled them off her legs, baring all that beautiful bronze skin and skating my fingers over it with a burning want.
“Hey, how about we tear some of your clothes?” She tugged at my shirt, and I caught her wrists with a wild grin. I’m in control here, Blue.
My gaze travelled down her near naked body to the lacy red underwear she was wearing, her breasts straining against the thin fabric and giving me a glimpse of her tight nipples beneath.
I tasted my lower lip, taking my time to enjoy the sight from the tight nip of her waist to that sultry look on her face.
“I’ve missed this.” I leaned in to kiss her collarbone and goosebumps raised beneath my lips, showing me exactly how much of an affect I had on her.
“And this.” I curled a lock of blue hair around my finger and brought that to my lips too.
“And these.” I squeezed her breasts and she laughed. “Hm...you’re missing something though.”
“What?” She frowned.
I reached behind my seat and produced the crown I’d won at the fair, placing it on my girl’s head. A smile split across her cheeks that lit up her green eyes, looking like the royalty she was as she pressed me down beneath her.
“Better,” I said, resting my hands on her silken thighs and drawing her closer.
“If you go around placing crowns on my head, you’re going to be in trouble,” she teased, and my mouth skewed as the weight of politics fell on me, but I wasn’t going to let it ruin this moment.
“Well let’s not tell anyone then,” I said, leaning in to kiss her neck, tasting the fire in her.
She started unbuttoning my shirt, and our movements grew more desperate, my kisses turning to bites, while she clawed at my chest to get the buttons open and finally pushed my shirt over my shoulders so I could shrug out of it.
I tugged her bra down to free her right breast, my mouth encasing her hardened nipple and my tongue rolling over it, making her shudder deeply with pleasure. She arched her back, grinding down on my hard cock, and I groaned, sucking her nipple harder and gripping her waist to keep her right there.
She lifted up on her knees to free me from my pants, and her ass bashed into the steering wheel, setting the horn off.
She snorted a laugh as I tugged her forward by the hips to stop the noise.
“This is way more difficult than I expected,” she joked, and I grinned devilishly at her.
“Definitely worth it, though.”
I freed my cock, pushing her panties aside, and all amusement fell away between us as I guided her hips down, hungering for the feel of her.
She rested her forehead to mine, inhaling as I lined up the head of my cock with her slick entrance and pushed slowly inside her.
I hissed between my teeth as she lowered onto me, and she moaned as I filled her up inch by inch, eyes locked and magic humming against my skin.
It was pleasure in its purest form, and I needed more. Always more.
She started riding me, and I chased her mouth for kisses as she rocked on my lap and I held her hips, pushing her down onto me and thrusting my hips up to meet her. My cock ground deep inside her, and she took every inch of me so damn well, her body made for mine.
She rolled her neck, bracing her hands on my shoulders, her lips parted and her breaths falling softly against me. She was a creature designed to ruin me, and in that moment, I would have let any fate befall me just to keep her.
“Don’t fight with me again,” I demanded, my teeth raking against her ear.
“Don’t give me a reason to.” She sank her nails into my shoulders, the bite of pain making me groan, and I thrust harder into her, driven mad by the way her pussy clamped around the length of me.
One of her knees banged against the parking brake and the other slammed into the door, but she didn’t seem to care, needing this as much as I did as we came together in this desperate act of passion and infatuation.
Her hips quickened to meet the movements of mine, and we fell into a cadence of lust, our bodies in perfect synchronisation. But as I watched her pant for me, I remembered Diego’s mouth on hers, and I wrapped one hand in her hair, tugging hard enough to make her yelp.
“That’s for Polaris,” I growled, my rage over that rising once more.
She scraped her nails down my chest so hard she drew blood, her gaze sparking with anger of her own. “That’s for Fran.”
I looked down in surprise, then released a breathless laugh. “I like you angry.”
“Let’s not make a habit of it though,” she panted.
“Deal,” I groaned as I pushed deep into her again, ecstasy hounding our movements.
Darcy pressed one hand to the window, her spine straightening and her pussy tightening around me in a way that told me she was close to the edge.
My hand rode the curve of her spine before forcing her onto me, grinding my cock against that sensitive spot inside her and sending her into that chasm of ecstasy she was teetering on.
She moaned through her climax, falling against me for support, and I fucked her harder and faster, finding my own release inside her pulsing pussy, grunting her name in the back of my throat as I came with an explosion of pleasure.
Her legs trembled as she slumped against me, resting her head against my shoulder, our breaths blazingly hot, leaving a fog on the windows around us.
It was pure bliss, having her this close, and I trailed my fingers up and down her bare thighs, memorising each waning second of our time alone together. I caught her chin, tilting her head up so I could touch my lips to hers, and I felt her smiling against my mouth.
She climbed back into her seat and we both dressed in silence, but we kept catching each other’s eye and sharing grins.
As soon as she was done, I restarted the engine and headed on down the road.
“So did you get any information from Polaris during your date ?” I asked a little bitterly.
“You’re never going to let that go, are you?” she mocked.
“It just fucks me off that you can go out in public with him and not me.”
“Well, that’s how it is,” she sighed, turning to gaze out of the steamy window beside her. She painted a grumpy face on it and wrote Orion above it, and I glanced over at it with my mouth tugging up at the corner.
“Is that what I look like to you?”
“Not quite.” She added angry eyebrows and fangs, turning to goad me with a grin.
I laughed, somehow feeling as far from being that grumpy prick as possible right now.
“Diego didn’t say much about his uncle, just that he’s an asshole. And that his mother and father go off with him sometimes to help him with his ‘work’.” She shrugged. “Is that useful?”
I thought on that, not having realised his parents might be involved with Lionel too. “Yes, it gives me a couple more Fae to look into. Much as it pains me to say it, I’d appreciate if you keep spending time with him. See what else he’ll say about them. But no dates.”
“Well, that’s gonna be pretty difficult as I’m majorly pissed at him and I’m guessing he is at me too.”
“What’s he pissed at you for?”
“I slapped him,” she revealed.
“Good,” I said. “But he deserves more than that for calling you a whore.”
“Actually...I slapped him before he said that.” She twisted her fingers into her skirt, her brow lowering in anger.
“Why?” I asked curiously.
“He said he wished you’d died when the Nymphs attacked,” she said with a bite of fury to her voice.
My grip tightened on the wheel. “I’m going to kill him.”
“You can’t. He’ll know I told you. And I didn’t exactly deny that I have a thing for you, if you go after him, he might figure out there’s something between us.”
“What kind of thing do you have for me?” I shot her a mischievous glance.
“It will sound crazy,” she said slowly.
“I like crazy. Did you not get the memo when I tried to cook myself earlier?”
“Promise you won’t laugh?” she asked, her cheeks colouring a little.
“On the stars.”
She nodded, looking out of the window so I couldn’t see her expression.
“When we were in the battle and you were about to die, I felt compelled to save you. Like…if I didn’t, a part of me would die too.
And ever since then, that part of me is getting stronger, like it’s become this tangible thing that lives in me.
I’ve never been a jealous person before, but when I see you with Francesca, it’s like I turn into an animal with nothing but basic instincts. ”
I didn’t immediately answer, floored by that admission and unsure if I was really lucky enough to have this girl feel that way about me.
Plus, she’d just put into words exactly how I’d been feeling, like we were on this runaway train and there was no way to escape our destination now.
Even if the tracks led us right over a cliff and into a ravine.
“I told you it was crazy,” she muttered.
I took her hand, winding my fingers between hers and pressing my mouth to the back of her knuckles. She glanced my way, and I realised we were so far down the rabbit hole, not even Alice herself could get us out.
“Good, because I feel it too.”