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“In that case, I’ll do everything I can to satisfy you. It’s one of the benefits of being my man.” I whispered seductively. I licked my lips as I slowly undid the buckle of his belt.

If sexual gratification could ease Shadow’s stress and take his mind away from his troubles for even just a little while, then I’d do whatever it took to please him.

“I’m going to suck you dry,” I whispered.

He closed his eyes as I dropped to my knees and ran my hands over his incredibly hard chest and abs, his muscles tightening and flexing under my touch and I felt powerful yet completely vulnerable to him at the same time.

Shadow pulled his shirt over his head while I undid his belt and tore off his pants and boxers. I caught my breath as he took a step towards me.

“Aria, I need you. I need you now.”

The conviction behind his words weakened me.

God, I will never get enough of this man.

I held his gaze as I took him in my hands. His full lips parted as I heard his breath hiss through his teeth.

The sound nearly undid me.

I ran my tongue along his hard length from the base to tip, swirling around the engorged head before I took him in my mouth. He let out a soft moan as his hands found the back of my head.

“Fuck, Aria,” he growled. His hips jerked forward as I fucked him with my mouth and his movements became more uncontrolled with every stroke, his hands fisted in my hair. And then suddenly I was lifted off my knees as he carried me effortlessly to the couch, throwing me down. There was no time to adjust myself and before I knew it, he tore my clothes off and was on me, in me, filling me. My knees hit his shoulders as he slammed into me.

I came instantly, the sounds of our union drowned in a sea of our pleasured moans.

Eventually we laid on his couch, my head resting on his shoulder, our hands intertwined.

The warmth of his touch made me happy, but also scared me. This secret society he belonged to, the world he lived in, there was danger waiting around every corner—assassins, serial killers, kidnapping, and torture. On the peripherals of this blossoming love was the hand of Death, who was biding his time before snatching us into his cold embrace.

“Hey Shadow,” I began. “Now that I’m a member of the council, can you finally tell me what the Midnight Society is really about?”

Shadow seemed to be drifting in between a state of awake and sleep. However, he still managed to reply to me.

“Not yet,” he whispered. “Not yet.”

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Chapter Twenty-Five

I had fallen way behind in my classes, which I soon discovered after the lecture started. My professor had already made it into the Baroque period of classical music history, which was two hundred pages further in our textbook than I had last read.

I unleashed a loud groan, which could have turned Chewbacca on, turning a few heads over in my direction.

As the professor began droning on about Bach and his fugues, I couldn’t help but glance around the room to see if I could spot the tail that Shadow had put on me. It was rather awkward knowing that someone was watching my every move. What if I had to fix a wedgy, or something equally as embarrassing?

I glanced over Justin, who was watching me from afar. As soon as my gaze met his, he instinctively looked down, as if disgusted by my presence.

I didn’t like the feeling of having things unresolved with Justin. For two lonely years, he was my only friend, and I was still sentimental to that.

Why did he have to go and do something stupid like fall in love with me?

My attention returned to the lecture as I concentrated on taking notes off the board.

There was only two weeks left in the semester and I was determined to see it through to the end. With all the drastic changes in my life over the past couple of weeks, the university was the only connection I had left to the past life that I once knew—the path that I had chosen for myself.

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I sat alone in the campus cafeteria, staring at my plate of cold fries and chicken burger. After the amazing meals I had while being with Shadow, University food seriously tasted like ass.

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