Page 26 of Fortune Academy: Year Two
Rage hit me so hard that I saw stars.
How appropriate.
“I can’t believe he wants to break the Virtue bond,” I seethed, then turned to Dante. I’d heard enough from Logan and if I heard any more, I would want to punch someone in the throat. “And you? Where were you? What was so important that you had to take an entire year before you could come back to the Academy?” Even if a year hadn’t passed for me, I knew it had for him, and he wasn’t just going to pretend like nothing had happened.
Dante’s jaw bulged and his fist clenched. “I was on a mission,” he said finally.
I took a step closer to him, allowing my new magic to waft over him like a cloud. His calm exterior trembled at my proximity and I ran my finger down his chest. Indulging in my succubus side reminded me that Dante was one of my untapped Virtues ripe for the taking. I wanted to peel off his coat and rip off his pants, but that would only cement a Virtue bond I wasn’t willing to make. “What kind of mission?” I asked.
Dante screwed his eyes shut and took a deep breath as my fingers ran lower. I hooked two fingers along his pants line and tugged, bringing his hips closer to mine.
It was getting harder to care about the pitfalls of activating yet another Virtue bond. Dante was all muscle and hard lines and drop dead gorgeous.
Logan growled, so I gave him a bone.Wrap your arms around me, Logan. Maybe you’re pissed off at me, but I’m your mate. You just need to learn who’s Alpha.
He immediately did as I ordered, squeezing me against his hard chest as his teeth clamped down lightly on my neck, I realized in a dominating show of claiming.
He thought he was Alpha.
Cute.
I kept my focus on the Hunter as Logan’s erection dug into my back. It only turned me on more being between two of my Virtues, especially when they were both keen on being violent.
“I asked you a question,” I reminded Dante as I fisted his coat and brought him in closer. His death grip on his weapon released as he reached for me and ran a thumb across my lower lip.
I knew I wasn’t being fair. I was exuding enough sexual magic that I could probably make my Virtues do whatever I wanted right now, but they had both been assholes. They deserved to be dominated for trying to push me around.
And, I had to admit, Logan’s claiming from behind, as well as Dante’s exploration at my front had me wishing this was real.
But it wasn’t… was it?
“I was searching for a way to Awaken your third gift,” Dante said. “Kaito told me that he had a theory that Monster Academy has what you need.”
My eyes widened. “You went to Monster Academy?”
He nodded, as if that was a simple feat. “It took some time on Earth to get through the system. Then when I was there, I couldn’t get close enough to the Monster Mother to take her, but your old friend was dumb enough to walk around alone.”
My old friend?
My breath hitched and I shoved Logan away. Dante released his grip that had gone to my breast and he stared at his hand. “Jess?” I asked with a shriek. “Jess is here?”
“Yeah, I put her in the West Wing with the other monsters,” he said matter-of-factly as he turned his hand over, utterly fascinated. Then he looked up at me and his orange eyes glittered with desire. “You really need to get to Kaito before you make me do something we’ll both regret.”
”Keep it in your pants,” I said, then stormed off and added over my shoulder, “Don’t try to follow me. You’re both on my shit list.”
A crack of bones followed by a quiet patter of retreating steps told me that Logan was humiliated by my domination. That was twice in one day and I imagined he wasn’t going to let that go easily.
He’d get over it.
If Dante followed me, he’d gone full Hunter, because I couldn’t hear a thing.
I didn’t care either way, because Jess was here, and that changed everything.
Chapter 10
Jess was here. I still tried to wrap my mind around that fact. I had no idea what I was going to say when I found her, or how I was going to get her to cooperate, but I’d cross that bridge when I got to it.
It wasn’t difficult to find the Monster Arena since everyone knew about the West Wing—and that it was off-limits. However, getting past the long fence and single gated entrance was another matter.
