Page 37 of Fortune Academy: Year One
“Taste it,” he dared me with a wicked smile. His golden eyes flashed with challenge. “Find out for yourself.”
I went to wipe my fingers on my uniform, but Ally grabbed my wrist and forced my hand to my mouth. “There, be a good girl,” she said as I fought against her. She grinned. “One little taste and you’ll be our pet instead of Hendrik’s...”
The bitch!
I delved into my supernatural strength to fend Ally off, but shewasborn of the goddess of war. Even I wasn’t able to overcome her as she forced the tip of my finger past my lips and rubbed the golden smear across my teeth.
Sweetness exploded in my mouth as the tiny specs of power found their way into my system. I didn’t just react to the influx of power Orion had given me, but something in his essence that reacted with my own.
Something that gave me power overhimand not the other way around.
I latched onto that sensation and ground my teeth together, determined not to lose myself to the compulsion running through me that wanted to push that girl off Orion’s lap and straddle him right here in front of everyone.
An internal battle worked through me as heat washed over my skin and sensations built between my thighs that made an embarrassing groan come from my mouth. Orion must have misunderstood, because his touch ran up my ribcage and he murmured, “That’s right, little pet. Give yourself to me.”
My eyes flashed open. “Fuck you!” I spat, then added, “And not in the way you want!”
Orion balkedin surprise and Ally was too stunned to do anything but stare at me. Orion had made a mistake giving me power. Even if I didn’t know who or what I was, the instinct inside of me that countless bouts at the Awakening Arena couldn’t touch erupted into being. I gripped onto the girl who was still licking Orion’s ear. “You don’t want him,” I insisted and a flux of compulsion swept through me and into her body. She flinched, then went rigid as golden liquid seeped off of her like oil against water. She slipped off Orion’s lap and rubbed her temples as if dazed. “What am I doing here?” she murmured, then seemed to realize her uniform shirt was completely open. She buttoned it up and gave me an apologetic smile. “Sorry, uh, I think I’m in the wrong place.” She stumbled over the field of bodies and with each wave of power that rang out at her footsteps, more of the students flinched and came out of their trances.
“What are you doing?” Orion barked, but it was too late.
The party was over.
I stabbed a finger into his chest, this time steeling myself against the flux of his golden light he tried to push over me. I knew what he tasted like now and he wasmine. “You think you’re so powerful,” I sneered. “You think you can bully girls into sleeping with you just because you’re a demigod? Well, you’re wrong. I’ve had to walk around knowing what it feels like to be mortal and now it’s your turn. No one is going to want to have sex with you, not in the way you’re used to. You’re going to have to work for it like everybody else.” I sealed the words with magical promise, interlacing the command with Orion’s essence and making it truth.
Orion launched to his feet, his erection still impressive underneath his groin cloth. Now that I was in control, I tilted my head and admired him with a wry grin. Who was who’s pet now?
“Hey, get back here!” Orion barked at the girl. He couldn’t even use her name—probably didn’t even know it.
The student didn’t even give him a backwards glance as she turned the corner and ventured out of sight.
“What the fuck did you just do?” Ally said, backing away from me with a sense of hesitation in her eyes that said I’d done something worthy to be afraid of.
I shrugged. “Guess you’ll have to figure it out.”
The students broke from their spell and started putting their clothes back on. Satisfied, I marched through them and out of the Demi Dorms.
When I looked down at my necklace, it gleamed just a little bit brighter.
Awakened
Olivia and I walked the halls on the way to our shared class with our arms interlinked and I’d never felt so free in all my life. It was the first time I’d bested someone like Orion who was trying to overpower me all on my own, and even though I’d be helping Hendrik in the process, it felt good. If I could stop Orion, a demigod, from controlling me, then there was hope I could face all of my bullies and come out on top.
“I can’t believe you really messed with the Demis like that,” Olivia said, elated with the destruction I’d caused. “They’ll think twice about messing with our alliance now.” She held up a little fist of defiance, making me giggle.
I wrapped my fingers around hers and made her put her hand down. The other students gave us a wide berth and were now giving us frightened stares.
“Don’t get too cocky,” I warned her. “I’m sure they’ll be fighting back.”
I still didn’t know exactly what I’d done to cockblock the Demis, but all the students seemed aware of the demigods now and that by partaking in any orgy parties, they only made the Demis stronger.
A group of students rushed past, one of them snagging me by the shoulder and whispering, “Orion is on the warpath! You’d better get out of here!”
The fear in the boy’s eyes gave me hesitation, but then his gaze flashed to the end of the hall, making him stiffen before he ran away from me so fast I wondered if I’d imagined him.
“You’re dumb enough to show your face in class?” Orion spat.
I was used to seeing him with a couple of girls hanging off his arms, which now I knew gave him steady doses of power, but not today. Today Trevor and Zero, the other two male Demis, stood one step behind Orion and glared at me.
