Page 106 of Harbinger

“Nyx needs to take a breather and do his nightly walkabout, so I’ll be here, yeah.”

“Okay, good,” Kai murmured.

Vorzyr smiled out at me as he hooked his arm around Kai and stroked his nape. “We’re good here. Do your thing.”

“Anything happens, he needs anything at all that’s not already here, call me, yeah?” I said, pulling my phone from the inside pocket of my black leather moto jacket to show him that I had it on me.

“You have my word. We should work on mind-linking soon, so we don’t have to rely on cell phones.”

“Something to discuss with Kai when he’s in his right mind.”

“Right mind?” Kai mumbled against Vorzyr. “I’m fine.”

“Sure you are,” I chuckled.

“If you need to take the edge off, feel free to dreamwalk me later tonight,” Vorzyr told me.

A rush of heat betook me at his suggestion.

It had been too long where that was concerned. With Kai, too. It hadn’t been helping that Kai had told me about the two of them sharing Ariana, and it had been on my mind since then, picturing it, being drawn in by the idea of it, andher.I’d always kept away, considering her completely off-limits because of Kai’s weird thing with her, so I hadn’t allowed myself to acknowledge just how fucking alluring she was to me, or anything like that.But now things were different, the way was open in a way it hadn’t been before.

Something to think about, for sure.

IfI could get past her hurting Kai.

Not checking in on him, the push and pull game she had going on that was impacting him so much. That definitely complicated things for me when it came to her.

“I’ll let you know,” I told Vorzyr, not wanting to make an outright commitment to doing it, not until I saw how Kai was when I returned, whether he was sound asleep, or tossing and turning and coughing his guts up again.

“I want to watch,” Kai murmured.

“You do, huh?” Vorzyr asked him in a teasing tone.

Kai shifted against him and grasped his bicep, nuzzling against the massive thing. “Really, I want to fuck you.”

“I’ll think about it.”

Surprise lit Kai’s eyes.

Andmine. While Vorzyr didn’t technically dominate in a sexual setting like Kai most definitely did, hewasa proud, dominating force, so getting fucked by Kai had seemed off the table. I guess not, though. Things were shifting. In so many ways, actually.

Vorzyr pulled a couple of textbooks out of his bag with his free hand as Kai nuzzled against his other arm. “I’m gonna read you the assigned sections forArcane SymbologyandWar Strategy and Supernatural Diplomacy, before you fall asleep. Then when you wake up, we’ll go over the stuff from Ariana.”

“Sounds good.”

“More tea first,” I said, taking it from where Kai had placed it down on the nightstand, and handing it to Vorzyr, knowing he’d get him to drink the healing elixir.

“Get going now. I’ve got him,” Vorzyr assured me, obviously picking up on me lingering.

I nodded and headed for the door, taking a look back at Kai, before walking on out.

I movedlike a phantom through the labyrinth-like arrangement of the spires on the roof of Maven Academy.

My jacket flapped with my rapid-fire, highly-coordinated and agile movements.

I sprinted up the rain-slicked shingles, my boots hardly making a sound, or even barely making contact.

With a massive leap, I vaulted over a window and snatched a railing with one hand, twisting in midair to land on the slanted rooftop.

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