Page 13 of The Stone Initiation
He cupped my breasts, thumb flicking my hard nipples and sending shockwaves of pleasure through me. “Pinch me.”
He obliged, but not hard enough.
“Harder.”
He increased the pressure, and my pussy flooded with heat. “Yes. Fuck. Yes.” I rode him, slick and hard, our bodies slapping together until I crested the rise, coming with a growl that had him pulsing with his own release.
He held me afterwards, stroking my hair as my heartbeat steadied. “Are you going to tell me now, Cam?”
Damn him and his insight.
A weight settled on my chest.
I’d come here to lie one last time. To tell him I didn’t love him and that I couldn’t see him anymore, but he deserved more than that.
It was time to tell him the truth. I owed him that much.
He didn’t stop me from slipping out of his arms, as if he knew. As if he sensed that I couldn’t be touching him when I told him what I’d come here to say.
I tugged my clothes on, ready for when he kicked me out.
“Cameron?” He sat up with a frown. “Just say it.”
I shoved my feet into my sneakers, blinking back the threat of tears. “I’m not human, Levi.” I looked up and locked gazes with him. “I’m part gargoyle, and I’m leaving to enroll in Stonehaven Academy tomorrow.” He stared and stared for long moments. “Levi? Did you hear me?”
“A gargoyle, as in…a halfblood?”
I nodded. “Yeah.”
He let out a bark of laughter and slumped back on the bed. “A fucking halfblood.”
O-kay. I wasn’t sure what to make of that reaction, so I grabbed my coat.
“Wait!” He swung his legs off the bed and stood, holding the sheets to his crotch. “It’s okay. Please. Don’t go.”
“You’re okay with me being supernatural?”
“Yes. Yes, I’m fucking okay.”
No. This was all wrong. He was supposed to look at me in horror and disgust and… “What the hell is happening here?”
He was looking at me as if I was a marvel. “I knew there was a reason I was drawn to you.”
I was so confused right now. “You have a thing for gargoyle chicks?”
“No, Cam. It’s because I’m a halfblood too.”
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I’d spentmy whole life, until now, never having come across another halfblood, and now I’d met two in a single day. Levi was like me. Undeclared and hiding, except his sire had covertly provided for him until he’d turned eighteen.
“You can’t go there,” Levi said. “That place…it’s fucking brutal, Cam. My mother used to work there. It’s how she met my father. She told me about the training, the brutal beatings, the trials that ended up with so many gargoyles dead or injured beyond repair. These are pure bloods, Cameron. What do you think that place will do to you?”
“I’ve got to go. My brother…” I swallowed the lump of emotion that rose up my throat. “My brother was pure blood. And he’s dead. Someone killed him.”
He puffed out his cheeks and shook his head. “I’m sorry to hear that, but what doyouplan to do about it?”
I blinked across at him, momentarily stumped by his question. “What?”
