Page 14 of Unicorn Shifter Academy
Who fucking knows? Nothing makes sense anymore.
My mother snapped her gaze onto the male and another ripple of thunder raked through the ceiling, causing the Coven Witch named Ella to scramble to repair it.
“And what happens if I don’t allow her to go with you?” my mother asked.
The male took a step forward, returning to my side, as his nostrils flared. “Then I will be forced to take her, and that would be an unpleasant outcome for everyone involved.”
Take me?
Who the fuck was this guy?
She narrowed her gaze, her calculating stare taking in his features. “You’re one too,” she concluded.
His nod of agreement confirmed what I had already suspected.
Although, I hadn’t expected Unicorns to be male.
I don’t know why I found that odd. Unicorns just seemed like pure, innocent beings of magic from what I’d read in fairytales.
Then again, unicorns are attracted to virgins, right? It would make sense if they’re just all a bunch of horny perverts, wouldn’t it?
Rethinking my interest in this male, I crossed my arms. “So if I’m like you, then does that make us family?”
“Not family,” he said a little too quickly, turning to stare me down. “In the same way not all humans are family. I don’t know your bloodline, but there are many among us, so it is extremely unlikely we’re related.” He hesitated, then closed his mouth.
He’d wanted to say something else, but decided not to.
The intensity of his ruby gaze made butterflies flutter in my stomach.
Secretly, I was very, very glad we weren’t related. Because the urge to kiss him made my entire body ache.
It’s probably just his Unicorn Magic making me want that,I surmised, trying to get a handle on my urges.Watch yourself, Bonny.
My little self pep talk seemed to do the trick. I shook off the strange feelings in my stomach and ignored the buildup that frightened me.
I suspected my awakening was going to come in parts, and while I’d earned a reprieve by sprouting a horn, something else was coming next.
Was I going to fall down on all fours?
Or produce a snout?
I better say my piece to mother-dearest before I lose the ability to speak at all.
“You loved Dad. That’s your only redeeming quality, Mother. But now he’s gone and you’ve made my life miserable.”
I’m not sure what I’d expected to see in her eyes.
But it wasn’t the glimmer of tears that formed.
“You were supposed to be an Elemental like me,” she said, her words barely above a whisper. She approached, her gentle touch running down my cheek in the type of loving caress I’d never received from her before in recent memory. “You share my eyes. I always thought…” Her hand dropped and she backed away, then swiftly wiped the tears away and composed herself as she looked at my horn.
She couldn’t appreciate what I was because it didn’t fit in her tidy plan for me, one where I would be her little clone.
Except, the range of emotions crossing her face betrayed that she did have feelings in that broken, cold heart of hers I’d thought buried with my father.
She did love me, and now she was worried that if I was taken away, she wouldn’t be able to protect me.
She didn’t know anything about the Unicorns or what it meant for me to become one.
