Page 46 of Exordium

I blushed and hid my grin behind my coffee cup. My relationship with the twins had been coming along nicely. Neither one had made any serious moves yet, but I thought that was mainly due to Pantar, who rarely left my side. Deciding to try my hand at flirting, I said, “As good as you smell this morning, I wouldn’t mind.” Zane looked slightly stunned for a second, and then one side of his mouth rose in a cocky grin.

“You think I smell good, Nexi?”

Nathan appeared in our living room at precisely that moment and slapped Zane in the head. Zane fell off the couch onto the small coffee table. The table broke, and he rolled into Chloe, who fell sideways into me, thus spilling my coffee. I slowly raised my head from the mess on the floor and looked at Nathan.

“Did you just cause me to spill my coffee?”

“Oh shit, your ass is in trouble now!” Chloe pointed at Nathan and laughed.

Zane got up off the floor, “I was going to fuck you up, but I’ll leave that to my N-E-X-I.” He slowly spelled it out, looking Nathan dead in the face.

Nathan did not look amused, “I’ll get to you in a minute.” Walking up to me, he dropped to his knees, wrapped his arms around my waist, and started his elaborate apology. “Please forgive me, MY Nexi.” He side-eyed Zane. “It will never happen again. I will walk on my knees to every class I have today to show just how much I regret the spilling of the most essential first cup of morning coffee: I will give up my pride, I will provide the first cup of coffee every day for the rest of my life. These things I pledge if you will only forgive me.”

Me, Chloe, and Zane looked at him in stunned disbelief. Nathan just continued to kneel at my feet, showing no signs of moving. “I assume you aren’t getting up until I forgive you,” I asked, still trying to digest that elaborate apology.

“MY Nexi,” he side-eyed Zane again, “is so intelligent, not to mention unbelievably beautiful.”

“Get off the floor, Psycho.” I couldn’t help but laugh, he was adorable. (I was probably the only one that thought so.)

“Not until I hear the words of forgiveness spilling from those plump, gorgeous lips.” He hugged me, and even on his knees he was able to lay his head on my breasts.

“I forgive you, crazy, just get up!” I had a hard time staying mad at him, and he knew it.

“I’ll see you two soon, when you’re not so overdressed.” Nathan said to my breasts. He rose to his feet, “I will now run, not walk, to replace this inferior coffee with a cup that will be much more palatable to your taste buds.” Before leaving, he turned to Zane, “We’ll be having a conversation later.”

Zane didn’t respond, I think he was trying to process what he’d just witnessed.

“Where in the hell can I get one of those?” Chloe asked, still stunned by Nathan’s crazy apology.

“He can be a little extra.” I smiled thinking of some of his past exploits.

“I bet everything is extra, and I can get behind that, or in front, maybe laying on my side,” Chloe said, still staring at the doorway that Nathan just passed through. Zane started gagging as I cracked up laughing all over again.

“Please shut up. Seeing that look on your face makes me sick.”

“I’d like to make him throw up from his little head,” Chloe said longingly. Just fucking with Zane now.

“It’s not little,” I smirked.

“Really, bestie, now you’re just being mean. You shouldn’t rub that in a girl’s face who hasn’t gotten laid since she got to the Academy.”

“What the fuck, Chloe? Are you trying to make me sick? Between you and that sickening display my soon-to-be Faction brother put on, I’m feeling extremely nauseous. I’m leaving before I lose it.” He approached me and whispered, “My second head is pretty impressive too.” He then turned and strutted out the door.

Well damn, I just bet it was. Hopefully, it wouldn’t be long before I found out.

Walking down the hallway to class was an experience all on its own. Pantar stayed directly behind me and Chloe. Even though it had been weeks, the students still stopped to stare. Thank goodness the Academy was massive, or he would never have been able to go with me everywhere.

“Yes, I would, Nexus. Reducing my size would solve that problem.”Pantar communicated, then growled at a guy that walked closer to us than he liked.

“Reduce your size? I didn’t know that was possible.”I was amazed at this piece of information.

“As a superior Fellat, all things are possible.”He licked the side of my head.

Wow, Pantar was just as arrogant as all the other males in my life. Why was I not surprised?

Entering the classroom, I saw an empty seat beside Jet and headed in his direction. He had been elusive the last few weeks. I saw him in class, but usually, he sat surrounded by females. Sophie was stuck to his side like a leech most days, elbowing the other girls out of the way. I was sure they were hoping he was Nexus. He was a good-looking guy and built like a brick shithouse, so I wasn’t surprised by the attention he was getting. Jet was in all my classes, but these days he avoided me and the guys. It was odd, considering he was always lurking in the background during my first few weeks at Emberhold.

“Is this seat taken?” I asked him.

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