Chapter 37 Liam
The Prince of Darkness was the cutest li’l bat, but I could hear him because ya know, primordial nature god. The bloke was paranoid as fuck he was going to get stuck like that and not be able to use the tech his parents were shipping.
I thought we could do the little belly rub and tune song and dance like we’d done when Khalid was stuck, but the little Muppet tried to bite me and insisted while he was stuck, he might as well get a lesson in with my friend Darian.
She was my friend first. If she was going to share lesbian cunnilingus tips with anyone, it should have been me.
Khalid came back with Darian and Cleo. Since Darian and I were besties now, I let her know it was us that brought the poop apocalypse down on Blaize so we could laugh about it since he probably sent her a dick pic, too.
“So, everyone heard about Astrid. Blaize’s dorm is down the hall from ours and he thinks she going to be his dragon queen.”
I snorted because now that these people weren’t drinking the Lola Kool-Aid, they were pretty neat to be around. Blaize was not Astrid’s type. Adrian wasn’t even her type, and I was pretty sure he was everyone’s cup of tea.
Nah, I saw her eyeballing Mazen before he started eyeballing Iman. She was into tall, dark, and intense, not the golden boys. She already had two bad boys and one naughty lass sniffing around her and I could see those threads glowing stronger every day.
“Good luck with that because I don’t think he’s her type,” Khalid said.
See? Even Khalid noticed, and I had loads more sex with all types of people than he had.
“So, Cleo is going to shift and I’ll try to walk you through what to do.
You’ll want to fly over the bed because the first shift is unreliable.
You’ll either fight to shift back to human or it’ll just happen.
Since you’re a bat, you aren’t going to have to do the walk of shame with your dick out.
Well, you’ll have to do that, but you’ll fall out of the air and crash to the ground and it sucks. ”
Lucian started chittering, and I went to translate what he was thinking when my new bestie shushed me. Besties didn’t shush each other, but I wasn’t going to stab her because we were friends.
“Cleo and I both speak bat. We can communicate with him.”
“Do your thing, friend.”
“I’m going to the bathroom to shift. I’m not a shifter-shifter, so I’m less cool with everyone seeing my bits.”
I gave the Prince of Darkness a hard time, but I was happy he found his animal.
It wasn’t just because his bat superpowers could save the world.
It was a part of him and I didn’t like it when they were fighting.
Sure, Astrid shredding her thong, becoming a giant dragon, and killing Adrian again terrified his bat into taking over to save him, but they seemed copacetic now.
Cleo’s bat was smaller than Lucian’s, but Lucian was the big daddy vampire. He’d bite me for saying that, so I kept it to myself since he wasn’t bi.
Lucian was a smart guy, but he was also a perfectionist. He’d never stab anyone in the neck and dispose of their corpse for Sage, but he always protected her in his own way.
I didn’t know if it was easier for him since he was the original and never let anyone see him as anything less than perfect before he got kidnapped, but all this vampire stuff seemed to come a lot easier to him than the rest of us and our magic.
I’d never be the smart one of this group. That was Khalid and Lucian. I’d just be there to make music and gut someone with Doris. My magic was instinctual since it was nature. So was Sage’s.
I could understand every single word of the bat speak. Flying and echolocation was broken down logically and precisely, exactly how Lucian needed it. He caught on stupid easy before he admitted his wings were tired and landed on the bed.
“That was good for a first try. You’ll need to shift and fly every night, at least just around the room. It’ll strengthen your wings and the bond with your bat so there’s less uncontrollable shifting. Plus, flying is just fun.”
Lucian agreed. I felt him. He was exhilarated the first time he got up and stayed there. I was so happy for him. There was something lighter about him since he called home.
Now, we just had to figure out how to change him back.