Page 73 of Architecti
She spins suddenly and plunges her lips on mine.We shouldn’t, it’s dangerous and risky, even at this time of night, but she smells like hot skin and citrus, and I drink in every ounce of her lips.
Her tongue slides into mine, her hands between my legs as she caresses my crotch.
I moan into her kiss.
Thud.
I freeze.Midnight leaps off me, shoving me behind her as she puts her arm out to guard me.
“Oh gods, Professor Malifax, I didn’t see you there,” I say, pushing past Midnight to greet the Severance Rite professor in the vain hope he didn’t see me with my tongue down Midnight’s throat.
“Mmm, that much is evident.Pretty hard to see anything when you’re tonguing a student.”
Oh.Shit.He very much saw then.Midnight swallows audibly.This time, I push her behind me.
“It’s not what you think,” I say.
He laughs, it’s sinister and cold and I know he’s not buying our bullshit.
“I think you have some explaining to do, don’t you?”
He lunges for me.What the fuck?
His fingers grip my arm so hard it hurts.“You’re coming with me.”
“Get off her.What the fuck is wrong with you?Stop manhandling her,” Midnight says.
He draws a blade on Midnight, halting her as he points it right over her heart.
“One more move.”
“What the fuck is going on?”I say, trying to pry his fingers off me.
When it doesn’t work, I twist and drive my knee into his balls.“I said, get off me.”
He drops the blade and groans as he buckles forward gripping his crotch.
“Who the hell are you?”I snap.
But he’s already recovered.He lurches for his blade and swings up.I duck out of the way and scream.
“You’re coming with me.”
“The fuck I am,” I bark and back up.
He charges at me with the blade, and I scream and run.Midnight sprints after us, smashing an emergency alarm on the library wall as she darts out the door on our heels.I run hard and fast.But the glint of the blade is always in my periphery, and he gains on me.
“KEEP GOING,” Midnight bellows after me as the library sirens scream through the night.
I break out into the courtyard moat area and run hard for the drawbridge.But it’s shut.
Who the fuck shut it?In forty years, I’ve never known the drawbridge to be closed.
How the hell am I getting out of here?
He careens into me, and I go flying, almost falling into the moat.I roll and save myself as Midnight lands a blow to the back of his head, making the blade sail out of his hands.
I throw myself at it, grasp the hilt and yank it out of his reach milliseconds before he gets to it.
