Page 71 of House of Malice
Val threw him a glare. “It’s better if we don’t risk it. You never know where the Dean has eyes.”
Andro sighed but didn’t argue anymore. None of them did, even if they were quite cranky at this time of the night.
Blaze stood leaning against the trunk of a tall pine tree. He smoked one cigarette after another, lost in his thoughts.
Alecto walked up to him and took the cigarette from his fingers. She inhaled the smoke, and his gaze snapped to her lips.
“What’s up with you tonight?” she asked, the smoke streaming out her mouth and nostrils.
Blaze took back the cigarette, placing it between his lips. He tilted his head backwards, looking down at her through lowered lashes. His throat bobbed, and Alecto had the urge to lean in and lick the tall column of it.
Before Blaze, she hadn’t thought it was possible to be as horny as she was. It was like no matter how long or how much they fucked, she was still not satisfied.
Whenever he appeared around her or someone mentioned his name, her body awakened. She was always hungry for a taste of him.
A dark smirk curled Blaze’s mouth. “I’m much more interested to know whatyouare thinking about.”
Alecto smacked her lips and cleared her throat. She took a step backwards, trying to put more space between them, as if that would help. “I’m thinking that I don’t know if I can act normal around Val and Galia now that I have seen them,” Alecto said in a whisper.
They stood farther away from the rest, but she didn’t want to risk Val overhearing them.
Blaze chuckled. “That might have been the most surprising thing that happened this year, I got to admit.”
Alecto nodded, glancing over her shoulder to their group. Val stood with her face cold as stone, looking around the Blessed Forest.
“Not once did they give any sort of indication that they might be into each other,” Alecto said. “They literally hate each other. How can—?”
“We hated each other once too, remember?” Blaze’s voice was low and husky.
Alecto sucked on her teeth. “I guess the line between hate and love is thinner than we think.”
“Both emotions are strong, sometimes overpowering,” Blaze said, caressing her cheek. “Maybe they are one and the same emotion, but channeled differently.”
“Like two sides of the same coin,” Alecto murmured.
“Something like that.” Blaze smirked. “Does it bother you that they are together?”
Alecto frowned. “Not that they are together. But it bothers me that Val is hiding it from us.”
“She hides many things, and she hides them well,” Blaze said, looking over Alecto’s shoulder. His attention then returned to Alecto, and he licked his lips. “But I have to admit, when I remember how your warm and wet pussy felt around my fingers while we watched them fuck…” He bit his fist, growling.
Alecto’s cheeks flushed with heat. She hit him on the shoulder. “Shut up. People can hear you.”
Blaze only smirked. “I don’t care. I want them to know that pussy is mine.”
Heat pooled south of her navel, and Alecto took a deep breath to steady herself. When he said things like that, she could barely think straight.
“Finally,” Val said. “You don’t seem to read the clock very well, do you?”
Alecto turned to see Galia walk out of the forest into the clearing where they waited. She didn’t look happy at all.
“The Dean is still out there, doing Gods know what, and you are concerned about me being late?” Galia asked once she came to a stop right in front of Val. “If you would be this concerned about stopping the Dean, we might be done with this whole thing already.”
Val leaned forward. “Correct me if I am wrong, but we’re supposed to be a team. So don’t put the blame on me alone. You haven’t been very useful so far, and you directly have his ear.”
Galia tiled her chin up. “I told you about the spell he was about to perform.”
“As if that was useful,” Jolene said. “We need more help from you, Galia. We can’t do this by ourselves.”
