Chapter 14 #2
My thoughts are interrupted by Drago’s date loudly announcing her orgasm by screeching it into the glass of his bedroom window.
Ronan starts to boisterously applaud in the next window over.
When I join in, Drago’s fuck buddy finally seems to realize she has an audience, screams as she covers herself, and springs away from the window.
Drago
Fuck you both, she just left. Cockblocking assholes.
Ronan
lmao
Achilles
Whatever just happened, you probably deserved it.
Drago
Yeah? Where’re you at with Yelena? I’ll come fuck that up and see how much you appreciate the blue balls.
Achilles
With all the love in my heart, D, you go anywhere near her and I’ll wear your fucking skin.
Ronan
Awww, was that you officially coming out as taken, cuz?
Achilles
You all need professional help. I’m turning my phone off now.
Me
Daily reminder that Yelena’s father Nero is a psychopath and is 100% going to cut off your balls when he finds out you’re obsessed with his daughter.
The message stays unread, which makes me chuckle.
With Drago’s date gone from the window, I do end up kicking my boxers off and settling into the hot tub. Steam curls around me as I let my head fall back, lift my gaze to the starry sky above, and allow my mind to clear.
…But of course it instantly fills with thoughts of a certain redhead.
So much for that lobotomy run…
Okay, so I may have pushed things too far earlier today in class. And by “may have” I mean “totally did”. The problem is, watching Galina’s eyes turn the color of an angry ocean when she gets pissed off is so fucking hot.
But the bigger problem isn't just that my dick gets hard when I tease her.
With a slow exhale, I reach for my phone and tap on my Ghost Prince profile. The thirsty, borderline problematic comments haven’t really let up since my last video where I upped the ante with the whole “hope you'll change your mind and still want to play, baby” line.
I didn’t have to say her name for literally everyone who saw that video, Galina included, to know I was talking about her.
But while it feels that literally all her followers…and mine…have commented on that video, I’ve yet to get a single word from the only person whose reply I give a shit about.
Yeah. Like I said: it’s more than just that I get a hard on while teasing Galina.
The bigger problem is that I actually like her. Not just in a sexual, temporary way, like Drago’s window-tit girl earlier.
I like the way Galina's brain works. I like her capacity for duality and her ability to keep a huge part of herself a secret from all those around her.
Like me.
But I guess the biggest problem is that I'm not used to wanting someone's attention this specifically. The only word I can use to describe how I feel that she hasn’t clapped back in response to my last video is “disappointed”.
And that’s new.
My phone dings in my hand, and I blink as I sit up quickly in the hot tub.
Speak of the devil…
Someone just tagged me in a video. And this someone has my pulse jumping and a stupid-ass grin creeping over my face as I tap on it.
In addition to her blonde Villainess wig and trademark black masquerade mask, Galina is dressed to fucking kill.
She’s in a tiny, tight, short black club dress that looks like it’s made from shiny vinyl or rubber.
The thing barely covers her ass, does not cover her back, and hardly covers her tits.
There's just two triangles over them, the tops curving up to clasp behind her neck.
Aaaaand I’m hard.
On screen, she whirls to the camera with a shocked expression and a hand coquettishly held to her mouth in a dramatic “uh oh” pose. The words “POV: the toxic, red flag parade MMC stalks you through the darkness and makes you take it like a good girl” flash across the bottom of the video.
Then Galina freezes. Her brow furrows and she taps her finger against her jaw thoughtfully before her lips pull into a sly, hungry grin. The words “POV: the toxic, red flag parade MMC stalks you through the darkness” fade away until all that’s left is “…and makes you take it like a good girl”.
Velvet Villainess slowly slips her finger between her lips and bites the tip of it suggestively. Her other hand reaches off camera and then slides back into view…holding a very big, thick, veined, slightly translucent pink dildo.
She turns her head to stare at the enormous fake cock with a look of shock and apprehension before she drags her gaze back to the camera and starts to nod, dragging her teeth over her bottom lip and winking before blowing a kiss.
The video ends.
I watch it once or twice or…okay, fourteen more times, my cock getting thicker and harder with each viewing. The comments are, predictably, mostly her fanbase of women calling her a queen and telling her she dropped her crown, gushing about how much they love her and her content.
She’s very good at making sure her followers are her target audience and regularly cleans up and blocks the creeps that follow her.
Still, there are a couple of losers who have snuck into the comments and left messages about her body and what they want to do to it that make me see fucking red.
I jot down their usernames and make a note to run searches on them later.
Then I watch the video again.
Fine. Ten more times.
Slowly, my grin grows hungrier. But it falters when I find myself facing a unique conundrum.
Galina is furious at me, Lochlan. She'd probably cheerfully push me down a flight of stairs right now. But the emotional fallout of that fury has apparently driven her directly into the arms of my alter ego.
I’ve made her so mad that she’s run to The Ghost Prince for comfort, without knowing it’s me.
I should find this hilarious. I mean, I do. I also find it inexplicably and somewhat infuriatingly hot.
But somewhere underneath both of those is something that feels annoyingly close to jealousy, which makes less than zero sense. Like, she's literally flirting with me.
And yet…I built a whole second identity from scratch and somehow it's more charming than I am. That's a deeply humbling thought to sit alone with in a hot tub at midnight.
I might be way too sober for this sort of introspection.
I might also be torn about what to do next with this very obvious and clear invitation from Galina.
My dick throbs under the bubbling surface of the hot tub.
…Yeah, not that torn.