Page 6 of Kings of Desire
Finding a secluded bench next to the sports gym, I sunk myself into trying to decipher the scribblings I made on the white papers. With my handwriting, I should have registered to Med school.
‘Come on man, give me a break,’ a whimpering male voice caught my attention even before I could get through half a page. But who could be around? I asked myself, looking around me but not spotting a single soul.
‘No, no...let me search my backpack.’ The same whining voice sounded in my ears, I realized that it was coming from behind the gym.
Initially, I wanted to remain on the bench. I even hoped deep down someone would pour instant glue and stick me to the wooden boards. But surprisingly, my body moved, carrying me to see what was happening.
I was like a moth flying to an open flame.
With extra careful steps, I made my way between the narrow corridor that separated the gym from the labs, hiding behind the thick leaves of a climbing plant that covered the walls of the buildings.
‘All of them.’ I didn’t recognize the voice, but I was certain that it didn’t belong to the same guy that I heard earlier.
I needed to take a closer look, so without a second thought, I took a step further, hiding my body beneath the plants.
Now I could see. I could see so clearly that I was under the impression that I was out in the open.
A blond guy, low in the monarchy ranks since I used to see him all the time towards my end of the hallway, was pressed against the English-style brick wall by a much more muscular type of animal - Cole.
‘All of them, I said,’ the brute roared at the student under the ecstatic gazes of the chipmunks that followed him. Thegolden boysas everyone called them, more like themoron boysif you ask me, Ace, Jason, and Nicolas- three slaves to their king.
‘Break his nose,’ Ace, the one with the most authority, encouraged Cole to step up his game. They were acting as if back in high school and certainly not like in senior year at the Academy. In an ideal world, they would just be a sick bunch of losers, but until then, they were royalty.
The well-defined back muscles hiding beneath a black shirt tensed, letting out a very angered version of the blue-eyed villain. ‘Are you fucking telling me what to do? Maybe I should break your nose for that.’ Cole snarled with a demon gaze pointing straight at Ace, like an alpha, seconds away from taking him by the throat and reminding him of the rules.
Without giving it a second thought, Ace and the dream team backed down, setting a distance from their leader and his current victim, who quickly regained Cole’s attention ‘If I have to wait for a second longer, Iwillbreak your nose,’ he roared towards the guy that was almost curled up into a ball by now.
With hasty moves, pulling at his pockets, the caged student raised a hand with a generous stack of bills, wiggling them in front of Cole, not as a sign of defiance, but as a result of the difficulty he was having controlling the nervous shaking of his hands.
Not waiting for a second longer, thekingyanked the stack out of his hands and with a thief’s agility separated more than a quarter, palming them in his own hand, then stretched out the rest to Ace.
‘I guess this should cut it for the final arrangements,’ Cole raised an eyebrow like he was doing the maths on something.
‘My place Friday night,’ Jason spoke in a tone that was waiting confirmation.
‘Let them know,’ Cole nodded, freeing the student who was one step away from having a panic attack.
It was like the poor guy evaporated in a second, running as fast and as far as his feet could carry him while Ace and the rest of the crew took a right to enter the gym.
Strangely, Cole didn’t move, remaining a living statue for a couple of minutes until large drops of rain began rolling on his face, filling a thick strand of jet-black hair and making it tumble over those cobalt pools of darkness.
I couldn’t leave either, not without revealing my position, and even with the plants that were offering me a temporary shelter, I felt my clothes catching the drops of rain and melting on my skin. I instantly was cold, shaking harder than the leaves around me, but there wasn’t a chance in hell that I would flinch and risk him catching a glimpse of me.
Suddenly, he turned, taking a few steps away in the opposite direction and I thought that I was finally free, though my illusion was quickly shattered by the hoarse tone of his voice. ‘Get out from there.’ He spoke stopping on his way and turning his gaze straight towards the bushes that were hiding me.
I paused, not knowing what to do, embarrassed and scared at the same time.
‘Don’t make come and drag you out of there myself.’ This time his tone was much more menacing than before and angering him more than he already was didn’t seem like a good choice at all.
I pushed the leaves away and took a step further out in the pouring rain, while Cole waited for a second then strode in my direction, halting only a few inches in front of me.
I gulped, expecting the worse, including him hitting me.
‘You’re cold,’ he smirked, leaning his head while looking directly at my hardened peaks that were breaking through my t-shirt.
With rivers of embarrassment running down on me I covered myself, wrapping my arms around my chest only to spread a long laugh on his face. I’m sure that it wasn’t something that he has never seen before, but it was something that I’ve never allowed to be seen. ‘Do you like watching me?’ Cole continued with the arrogance that defined him so well.
I was aware that he wasn’t expecting an answer, he was just preening on humiliating me, and before I knew it, his hand raced towards me, making my eyes instinctively close.
