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But then the most incredible thing happened—Shade smiled.
HE SMILED AT MILES I AM MELTING
“And that’s, um…that’s Miles, my cousin,” I finally said, and Miles looked up at Shade, jutting out his chest. He looked adorable.
What a gem
“She’s more like my big sister, though,” the kid said, the only one not about to melt into a pile of goo at Shade’s feet.
Awwww. Great look for our guy Miles
Before I knew it, his hands were on my face, and my back was against the wall, and his lips slammed onto mine.
HELLO THERE SHADOW DADDY PFT PFT PFT
He tasted like wine. Rich, delicious wine I could drown in and die a happy woman.
SHAKING
At the sound of my moans, he slammed his body to mine, pinning me to the wall, then stuck his tongue in my mouth like he was in a race.
HOPEFULLY A RACE TO THE NEAREST BEDROOM
Another moan escaped me, and he pressed harder as he growled, his hand moving farther up, his fingertips lightly tracing the wound on my waist I’d forgotten even existed.
QUAKING IN MY BOOTS
He breathed as heavily as me, and I realized what this was—he’d been worried. The asshole really did like me, and he’d been worried about my wound, about me dying in the trial.
OBVI HE WAS WORRIED AND LIKES YOU YA DUMMY!!!
This time, though, he was much slower. This time, he gave me instructions with every new move he made—raise your left arm to the side, duck, kick, step back. This time, he was patient with me.
Training montage has entered the chat!
He pulled everything off, unfortunately for me.
Hopefully he pulls everything off both of you real soon ;)
“Damn it, Snowflake. You taste like sin,” he whispered in my ear, then sucked my lobe in his mouth. “Such a beautiful, deadly sin.”
GASPING SCREAMING CRYING, JUST FUCK ALREADY
They didn’t look like statues by any means, but they were a creation of a Muse descendant. They’d need godstones to be able to function in the real world, just like that soldier statue and the dummies. Not real, I said to myself and stepped deeper into the room. Not real, not real, not real…
Brilliant Fucking Woman
someone grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me back against the wall. Lorenzo’s smiling face filled my vision, and David and Jasper were with him, too.
These motherfuckers don't quit…
"Are you fucking him, mortal? Is that it—did you give him your pussy in exchange for answers?” “I want some of that, too,” Lorenzo said, and David snorted.
EAT GLASS LORENZO
“Thank you, Eeda. You literally saved my life.” If those leopards had gotten to me…God,
Eeda you the real MVP
But Maia sighed. “I wish we could see their godstones, at least. It would be easier to know who to stay away from.
SHIT CAN ONLY SERA SEE THEM!?
That’s when I knew for sure that she was messing with me, so I laughed. “Except we can see their stones.” Maia looked at me for a second, eyes wide, the silver moon reflecting in them. “Don’t be silly. We’re not Elysean.” I blinked. Blinked again.
HOLYFUCKINGSHIRTBALLS
They had. Avery had had a ruby around her neck, Arthur an emerald sewn to the breast pocket of his his jacket. “Probably, yeah,” Maia said with a nod. “They probably did. Gods, they were so lucky…”
But they keep calling her mortal, no way she can be Elysean?!
So, I did something even stupider—I pulled him into the room and slammed the door shut without ever breaking the kiss.
YES YES YES
His hands moved to my waist, squeezing me until all air left my lungs, and the stupid shirt was in the way, so I took it off.
YEAH TAKE YOUR TOP OFF
“Look at you, Snowflake,” he whispered under his breath, licking his lips as if he were preparing to devour me. “So perfect. My perfect little sin.”
I AM WEAK IN THE KNEES
“You’ve gotten into my head, you know that? I can’t fucking stop thinking about you, and now I know why. Look at what you’ve been hiding from me under those clothes…”
PFT PFT PFT MELTING
“Last chance to stop me, Snowflake.”
DONT STOP
“If you don’t stop me now, I’ll lose all control.” He said it like a warning, his eyes two dark storms. “I won’t be able to hold back.”
LOSE CONTROL SHADOW DADDY
Gripping his face in my hands, I held him still for a second. “Then don’t. Don’t hold back. I want this. I need this, Shade.”
Delcious
He could see everything, and he took his time analyzing it, too, with his eyes and his hands, until he reached my clit with his thumb. My soul just about left my body.
Soul also leaving my body
“You shouldn’t give me something so precious, Snowflake. I’m a selfish man,” he said. “I will take it. I’ll take anything I can get from you—don’t you realize that by now?”
TAKE IT PLEASE
“Sleep, Snowflake.” It would be so easy to do—it wasn’t just that I was completely spent. It was the way he held me to his chest, too. The way he rubbed circles on my shoulder and kept his lips pressed to the top of my head.
Panting screaming melting
“My name,” he whispered, running his thumb over my bottom lip. “It’s Adryan.”
HE TOLD HER HIS REAL NAME BRB SOBBING
“They tell me he was supposed to be at the Academy three nights ago, but he left without notice and came here, then attacked Jasper, who hasn’t woken up since.”
Daammnn he def beat the shit outta Jasper. Well deserved
“Well, you did complete two trials without help from anyone, without access to the library, which has never been done before since the trials began, and that would suggest that you’re smart,” he said,
Because she's a brilliant fucking woman
Except as soon as I grabbed the handle, he said, “I didn’t think you’d worry.”
AAAHHHHH HE NOT USED TO SOMEONE WORRYING ABOUT HIM
He threw his head back and laughed that unpleasant laugh of his. “Don't you think I’ve tried? I have, Snowflake—I just can’t.” He leaned closer. “But I will if you tell me to stay away.”
HE IS SMITTEN. But still believes in consent. Hot.
I shook my head, exhausted, too. “Why?” I choked. “Why do you want to stay away so desperately?”
Stop resisting Adryan!
“Because you’re sunlight,” he whispered, looking down at my parted lips as he grinned wickedly. “And I’m the deep, deep dark.”
KNEES WEAK
“I don’t want to just be your first,” he whispered, raising his hands to my face. “I want to be your only.”
YES YES YES PLEASE
“Then why do you resist me?” Shade smiled, holding me in place as he brought his lips closer and closer… “When have I ever, Snowflake?” And he kissed away every ounce of everything bad inside me within seconds.
CRYING SHRIEKING PASSIKNG AWAY
“Come, Snowflake,” he whispered. “Come for me. Let me hear you.”
SCREAM IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS
But his cock was in my hands so who needed air?
Potato banana same thing
But then he thrust his hips, hard and fast, and it hurt like hell—like I was being cut wide open by the sharpest blade in the world.
Imma pass awayy. Bang bang bangity bang
“Good girl,” Shade whispered,
Good girl has entered the chat
“The things I would do to you…” he whispered, running the tips of his fingers down my chest, between my breasts and to my stomach, before he pressed his thumb to my clit.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO TELL ME
“I would bend you over until you risked breaking,” he said, his thrusts more desperate now. “I would fuck that beautiful mouth of yours until you cried tears for me. I would spread these gorgeous legs until I was so deep inside you, you couldn’t feel your own self anymore.”
BEND ME OVER A BARREL AND SHOW ME THE 50 STATES
“I like every inch of you,” he whispered. “Your hair, yes, but those lips…” and again, he ran his thumbs over my lips. “I’m a slave to them. You can make me do whatever you please if you only ask.”
Weeping, he is absolutely undoubtedly 100000% smitten
Shade shook his head. “I don’t want to protect you because you’re weak—you’re not. I want to protect you because you’re important.”
SCREAMING CRYING TROWING UP
“You’ll die your first day there,” Shade then said with a sigh. “The Academy is no place for little girls who forget how to use their brains the moment they get a bit of attention from people like me.”
STFU IM GONNA PUNCH YOU STOP BEING AN ASS, SHADE
“To return to the land of the living, now you must willingly share your most powerful memory with Mnemosyne.”
Fuck we about to be traumatized
And the fire from the explosion could still not reach me or the man who’d brought me back from the dead.
HOLY SHIT HOLY FUCKING SHIT. is this why she can see the goldstones?! What did he do to her?!?! Can all the Elyseans see this memory too????
Instead, the sight of Mister Ravenar from House Opal, who was on his feet, shocked me for a moment.
OOOOOOHHHH SHIIIIITTTT he gonna ask her to join his house.
Screw you all, I thought to myself. “I accept.”
BRILLIANT FUCKING WOMAN CHOOSES KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH SEEKING OVER FEAR.
