Page 16 of Unicorn Shifter Academy
Fucking great.
“What were you guys thinking?!” Bonny shouted, tugging at me as she addressed the two hitchhikers. “Ned, that was reckless. I expect no less of you. But Angel, really? Walking—or, uh,swimming—through fire? Isn’t that the one element that can kill you?”
The mermaid shrugged as her tail split back into legs. I looked up at her face as she covered herself with her hands. Like Unicorns, she was otherwise naked from her transformation.
I felt nothing in response to the woman bared before me.
Bonny, however, made my dick throb when she gave me a curious glance. Her expression immediately turned sour.
Could she be jealous?
“I had a feeling it was a portal,” Angel replied, ignoring the heated exchange of emotions between Bonny and myself, “and I wasn’t about to let you have all the fun without me.” She winked.
I envied their easy relationship.
I’d once had a friend like that, but he was gone. Not dead—but he might as well be. Unicorns had a tough life, one not meant for a delicate, untrained female like the one who struggled against my grip.
I had to hold her with one hand because I hugged the book the witch had summoned with my other arm. It was a forbidden tome, one that had somehow found its way out of Starfall Library. I instantly knew what it was, even though my mind was not permitted to remember the events described in the book.
It might kill me to hear them.
It might have killedherif I had allowed the witch to read from it.
I have to get the book and the female to the Elders before this gets any worse.
“You two,” I snapped, my magic still unstable, which meant my patience was thin, “stick with me and don’t stray from the path.” I’d let them be devoured by roaming forest beasts in my current mood. For their sakes, I hoped they could follow basic instructions.
They looked around as confusion clouded their features. The one named Ned stood up and brushed away burnt pieces of cloth. “Path?”
Right. They wouldn’t be able to see it, but Bonny might.
She turned and faced the glimmering trail of crystal dust that would lead to the Academy. Luckily, we’d landed relatively close to campus. “You don’t see that?”
Angel nudged Ned. “Clothes, maybe?” she whispered.
“Oh, yeah. Sorry.” He mumbled a few words and clothed her in shorts and a t-shirt. It was warm in the forest, so while appropriate wear for the temperature, it wouldn’t protect her from the beasts that patrolled these parts.
While many of the creatures had learned not to venture too close to the Academy, a few would still attack if they caught us outside the campus’s protection. We often permitted weaker ones to roam to deter visitors.
Except, these particular visitors I imagined Bonny would prefer to be kept alive.
“I don’t see anything,” Angel said as she stood and walked up to us, bravely—or stupidly—staring me down. “Except an asshole who needs to let my friend go right the fuck now.”
Her words didn’t affect me, but the look on Bonny’s face pleaded with me to comply. Despite myself, I couldn’t say no to a face like that.
I dropped her wrist, showing her that she could trust me.
The effect of ending skin contact seemed to help my magic stabilize, which confirmed that the female was messing with my powers.
Among other things, given the hard ache running through my groin and into other intimate areas.
Bonny took a few steps toward the path, then stopped and marveled at the forest.
I watched her, waiting to see what she’d do.
This place should feel different to her. And if she was as powerful as I suspected, she would recognize the sheer level of magic humming through the trees.
In fact, I had expected her to shift into her mare form the moment we’d portaled in. Any male her age would have struggled with resisting the transformation with this level of Purity magic permeating the air. The fact that she was still in her mortal body concerned me, but perhaps mares had better control over their bodies. I had no basis to understand her biology.
