Page 25 of Messenger of Death
“Sage, you’re a fucking god. A pretty powerful one based on how everyone reacted when they realized who you were. We’re all gods, but is there anything wrong with treating you like one?” Khalid said.
“We’re bonded,” Liam said. “Lucian needs blood, so I’m giving him mine. Khalid is eventually going to need our help with something. Girl, you have amagnificentset of legs, but you didn’t get them running. You’re going to be sore tomorrow. Let us help.”
“Are you sure you’re not trying to get me naked?”
“We don’t need—Sweet mother Mary,” Liam said when I yanked my shirt off.
They might notneedme naked, but I was planning on being that way. I had other plans. They were right about one thing. We were bonded, and we’d eventually be spoiling each other when we needed it.
I would be sore tomorrow without the massage, but that also didn’t mean I couldn’tthankthem for it after.
All four of us had baggage and hangups. Even Khalid, I just hadn’t figured his out yet. Sage apparently didn’t have a single one about nudity or sex, which I didn’t know if I was shocked or not surprised at all. I was just going to rub her back with her shirt on and work up to sex.
But, yeah, my ruby-haired goddess whipped her clothes off and was looking at us like she was going to eat us alive. I had my own religious trauma, and I didn’t know if I should pray for forgiveness or stamina because she looked like she hadplans.And then I had an existential crisis about praying to anyone at all while staring at her glorious legs.
My eyes traveled upwards. Yeah, the rest of her was perfect, too. Everyone at Ouroboros Academy was attractive, but Sage was just prettier than everyone else. And she chose to get nakedfor me.I mean, Khalid was here, too, and Lucian probably didn’t deserve it, but this was just like seeing Sistine Chapel for the first time.
“It’s weird I’m the only one naked,” she said with her hands on her hips.
Yeah, I actuallylovedthis side of her, but Professor Adamastus had us running laps the whole class. If anyone starting walking, he had that vampire he had helping him teach drop fang and chase them. Professor Adamastus didn’t exactly stop him when he was snacking on his students.
Professor Adamastus didn’t care if you were shite at running as long as you didn’t walk. And Sage was adorably shite at running. Before she started wheezing and completely lost her breath, she said it was only natural to run if someone was chasing you. None of us pointed out someone would easily catch her, we just slowed down and kept her company in case that vampire who was biting students got any ideas.
Lucian went up a few points with me for finding out who sent that dick pic, plotting revenge, and again when it got me a kiss. He went up a few more when he didn’t use his super speed to run the laps and stayed close to Sage in case another vampire decided to bite her. I’d probably stop kicking him in the kidneys so much.
But right now, if we didn’t give Sage that massage, she was going to hurt tomorrow. Our cocks could wait. I picked Sage up and carried her to her bed. There was just something about being this close to her. I knew none of us had even begun to tap into our magical powers, but Ifeltlike an ancient nature god when I was holding her.
I gently set her on the bed and brushed her hair off her forehead.
“We don’t have to rush anything,” I said. “If Professor Adamastus had a vampire biting people for being bad at running the first day of class, he’s probably not going to accept being sore the second.”
“Sorry, it might be a territorial thing, which is very weird for me, but I don’t know how I’d react if another vampire bit you,” Lucian said.
I didn’twantto like the Prince of Darkness because he was kind of a ponce, but the fact that he was new to all of this and hadn’t bitten her yet kinda made me like him. He shouldn’t do that until he learned to control it because it wasn’t exactly pleasant while he was sucking on my wrist right now.
“I’m not even a vampire and I’d get mad if another vampire bit you.”
I know whatI’ddo if another vampire bit Sage. I couldn’t kill them without getting expelled and separated from Sage, but I would yank their fangs out their head. Did they make dentures for vampires? Like, I’m sure some vampire had pissed someone off and got their fangs pulled out. There were probably supernatural vampire dentists who could give them implants, but they would think twice about biting Sage again.
“Hey, hasn’t everyone been telling Lucian it’s against the law to bite people without their consent?” Sage asked. “Everyone has been stressing this like Lucian doesn’t have exceptional control.”
Sage groaned as Khalid started kneading her back. I took her feet and Lucian was playing with her hair. I loved the little noises she was making, and I was content to just listen to them while I rubbed her feet, but, apparently, everyone wanted to talk about vampires.
“No, it’s weird,” Lucian said. “I haven’t had my first vampire class yet, but even the vampires in the dining hall were giving me tips if I ever felt like I was losing control.”
“Morgana would know,” Sage said. “Maybe it’s okay if a teacher is using it as punishment? That’s kind of fucked up, but we hardly know anything about this world and theydidthink drugging and kidnapping us was a good idea.”
Mm. At this moment, I wasn’t interested in all the crimes Ouroboros Academy was committing or covering up. It wasn’t anything worse than my family had groomed me to do. And the kidnapping and drugging had amuchhappier ending than if a member of my family did it. Sage was naked, and that was the most important thing in the entire world right now. I just found out there were other worlds earlier today and Sage being naked in this one was the most important thing in those worlds, too.
Sage’s familiars flew in, saw what they were doing, and flew right back out, but not before delivering a message to both Sage and me. We both fell out laughing.
“Sorry, the rest of us don’t speak crow. What happened?” Khalid asked.
“Blaize is walking around like a sentient condom trying not to get shat on. A bunch of birds who don’t care much for the affairs of the two legged decided to get involved because they said he’s a menace when he’s flying around as a dragon,” I said.
“They haven’t picked names yet, but one of them told me he’s wearing a raincoat and carrying an umbrella. He hurt the other bird’s fledglings, so even if Liam calls it off, they might not stop.”
I just shrugged.
