Epilogue
When I came back to the real world, I wasn’t in the classroom anymore. No students, no empty vials, just a soft bed and Kaito leaning over me, his eyes alight with concern and that silver streak in his hair still tousled from where I’d run my fingers through it.
His face relaxed when he saw I was awake. His hand went to mine and squeezed. “Lily, I’m so sorry. I didn’t know you would react... like that.”
I groaned from the fresh waves of pain that bolted through my body.
Everything inside of me hurt like I’d broken all my bones and then put them back together again slightly different than they’d been before.
“What happened?” Everything was so fuzzy.
I remembered the classroom. Drinking the black vial. Then...
Dear gods.
My heart twisted when it all came flooding back and tears sprung to my eyes. I didn’t want Kaito to see me fall apart, but I couldn’t help it when my face crumpled. “I’m a monster,” I whispered, my words hoarse as if I’d spent hours screaming.
Kaito shushed me and immediately his lips were on mine. “You’re not,” he promised between kisses. “You’re anything but a monster.”
I suddenly became very aware that I was alone with Kaito and his hands were on me without hesitation.
Perhaps it was guilt for putting me through a living nightmare, or perhaps he’d found a way for us to finally be alone without repercussion.
I pulled away from him and he went to my neck, making new sensations zing through my sore body.
This must be his bedroom. Simple decorations lined the walls with more than enough books to fill a library. I felt strangely at home among the spines that piled atop one another and was the only audience to our taboo.
He was a school counselor, a teacher, and I was his monster student.
He was also my Virtue, and I was meant to be his.
That assurance made me melt into his touch and he responded to the shift in my body, forming his hands to my hips and pulling me closer to him.
He ran one hand up the side of my skirt, riding the material up my thigh.
He pulled away long enough to gaze at me.
“Lily, let me give this to you. I can ground you. I made a mistake pushing you like that. You weren’t ready to learn all of who you are, but I can help. ”
He was right. Every touch and kiss made me feel more myself, sane, grounded.
My gaze dipped to his open shirt and I licked my lips.
The sexual desire wafting off of him was intense.
He wanted me more than anything right now and me looking at him made his passion even stronger.
I tested the limits of our connection as I ran a finger down the center of his chest, plucking away his buttons as I went. His mouth parted.
“Lily,” he breathed.
My gaze flashed up to his. “You mean Lilith,” I corrected him even though the truth sent nausea through my stomach.
He had to know who it was he was touching.
Surely if he just realized that I was actually a demonspawn, a creature of hell and sin, then he’d save himself any further heartache.
He couldn’t possibly be with me if he really knew the truth, could he?
He surprised me by chuckling and my eyes went wide when his tattoo shifted colors from black to a ruby red that gleamed with magical power. “Lilith,” he tested the name. His eyes started to take on that red hue as well and I watched, mesmerized. “If you’re a monster, then so am I.”
I didn’t get a chance to ask him what he meant by that, but I didn’t care when his fingers gripped possessively around my thigh and he ran one hand under my shirt, slipping under my bra and flicking a thumb over my nipple, making it harden under his touch.
I gasped and he took advantage of my open mouth, thrusting his tongue over mine and sending sweet desire through my body.
My succubus side couldn’t feed on his lust, not with the rune on my arm, but I still drank in raw power.
When I realized that it was our connection, I soaked it in greedily.
This was what it meant to be my Virtue.
It didn’t weaken Kaito like I suspected a succubus feed would have. He groaned over me as if the experience heightened his pleasure.
Feeling bolder, I thrust my hand down his pants and gripped his erection, the supple skin smooth against my fingers.
He bucked against my grip. “Not yet,” he breathed, his husky voice puffing his hot breath against my face.
He kissed my neck, then traveled with playful nips down my shirt, biting me through the fabric as he peeled it away.
My bra was still an obstacle and he bit down onto it, the pressure on my nipple making me long for his tongue.
“I want to show you how much this means to me,” he said, his hands going to my skirt zipper at my hip. He slowly ran it down, revealing skin.
I watched him with anticipation, then nodded, giving him permission.
He ran my skirt down my legs, taking my underwear with it and then his kisses were on me, making me throw my head back and his tongue thrust boldly into my folds and made pleasure explode behind my eyes.
“Kaito,” I breathed. I couldn’t believe this was happening.
With every lap of his tongue I crept closer to an edge that looked out over an abyss I’d never felt before.
I was a demonspawn who’d only known suffering and a few curious tastes of this world, but I hadn’t experienced this.
I was a... virgin.
The knowledge made me blush and I wished that I wasn’t. I didn’t want Kaito to feel like this had to be special just because it was my first time. Would it kill his mood if he thought I was inexperienced?
When he slipped a finger inside of me, I gasped, a light tugging of pain mixing with my pleasure.
As if he recognized the distinction his gaze flashed up to mine. “Lily,” he said, his lips swollen from kissing me, “is this... are you...”
A wave of heat ran over me. Before Fortune Academy, before my Virtues, I didn’t know what blushing felt like.
I didn’t have their passion to keep me warm and I’d been nothing but a cold husk.
But now with Kaito in the most compromising of positions over my sex, I flamed with heat as he asked me such a personal question.
“Yes,” I said, casting my gaze down, ashamed.
He lapped at me again, this time gentle as he slipped his finger out, making me squirm.
“I won’t make you come for me then before I’m in you,” he said, making disappointment flood through me. He grinned. “You’ll be tight enough. After the pain, I will give you so much pleasure that you’ll forget all about it.”
He still... wanted me?
My eyes went wide as I nodded my agreement.
He leaned back to peel away his shirt, then he undid his pants and his erection slipped out, making my mouth water.
I wanted to taste him, but he took off his pants and then settled his hips over mine, slowly grinding his dick onto my clit.
The power of that pressure made my eyes roll to the back of my head.
I was so close to the cliff... if he kept doing that. ..
He stopped, making a sound of agonized protest escape my lips. He chuckled again. The sound settled inside of my chest and I lapped up the brush of power his pleasure gave me. “Do you want me inside of you?” he asked.
Gods, yes I did.
I gripped his hips and ground myself against him, desperate for that pressure. “Please,” I said, not caring if I was begging for him now. I needed this and I’d die if he took it away from me.
He ran his dick over my slickness and slipped a fraction inside of me, making pain and pleasure spark behind my eyes.
He waited for me to relax before he went just a little bit further.
“Tell me if you want me to stop,” he said, his breath coming in pants now.
I could feel his restraint, how much he wanted to plunge into me and take me with all of the passion raging underneath the surface, but he wouldn’t hurt me. He would make sure to be gentle.
I was a fucking demonspawn. I didn’t do gentle.
Testing the connection within us, I found that string that connected his heart to mine and I yanked on it, hard.
He gasped and his hips thrust out, pushing all of his girth inside of me.
The pain hit first, but then the pleasure washed over me with such intensity that I cried out.
“Don’t stop!” I screamed, and he rolled his hips again, grinding blessed pressure against my clit and finally I tipped over the edge of that cliff and stars sparked behind my eyes.
I wasn’t in Kaito’s bedroom anymore. I was somewhere else far above the heavens, beyond hell, beyond my past, beyond anywhere Monster Academy or Fortune Academy could touch me. I clenched around his dick as he thrust deep inside of me, riding the waves of my pleasure as he fought his own release.
There would be time for more sex, I wanted him to come with me, so I stroked that connection again, making him groan as he was forced to fall over the cliff with me. Heat exploded inside of me and the sweet music of his cries joined mine.
The bond snapped firmly in place.
We had sex three more times that night, each more delicious than the last. The first time was enough to solidify a Virtue bond with Kaito, but I wanted to taste everything he had to offer.
He stroked sweat-dampened hair from my face as we came down from our latest high. “The others will have felt that,” he said with an amused grin.
I blinked at him. “What?”
“Your other Virtues,” he clarified. “You’ve been establishing bonds with them already. I can sense them.”
Oh. Wow.
I wasn’t entirely sure who my other Virtues were, but I suspected. Logan. Hendrik. Orion. Maybe even Dante. The thought of them feeling my pleasure and a connection of a new Virtue had me blushing hot all over again.
Kaito tested his teeth against my neck as if thrilled he was the first to have me. “They’ll either be coming for you hard now,” he promised, “or they’ll fight it. It’ll be up to you what you want to do with that.”
That won a grin from me. If anyone would fight a Virtue connection it would be Hendrik and Orion, and I delighted in the idea of tormenting them.
I closed my eyes as Kaito massaged my breasts, awakening my senses for the fourth run of the night.
I’m Lily Fallen and not just a pretty face. I’m a monster in disguise and my bullies won’t know what hit them.