Page 15 of Messenger of Death
“Woah, I’m not here to hurt you. I heard a rumor that the Morrigan is back and you felt it when Kira died. I’m Blaize.”
“Oh, yeah. Hi. Kira was supposed to be your bodyguard, right?”
“Yes. We fought like kittens, but we grew up together. Everyone loved her. I can’t imagine who would want to hurt her. You’re bonded to Anubis, right? Did he say anything? Kira was good. I can’t imagine her losing a fight to anyone. She’s bested Professor Adamastus a few times with her fists, but she’s also a dragon.”
We were alone. I couldn’t sense anyone else in the hall and I felt like this was my duty if this information wasn’t already out there. Maybe it would make things worse, but it would save a few lives, too.
“Listen, if you ever can’t hear or sense any animals out with you and something just feels weird, shift or usewhatevermagical resources you have to get the fuck out of there. Once everything goes dark, you’re fucked. Spread the word, but be careful who’s listening.”
“Shit, thanks. I’ll sleep a little better with that tip. I’ll make sure it gets passed around. And for what it’s worth, those of us on the supernatural side who actuallyknowabout this shit think if the Morrigan, Anubis, and the Ancient One are having secret meetings with them, then Thor, the original bear shifter, and whoever the fuck the other one is aren’t violent in this life.”
“Apollo. Alexios figured out he’s Apollo.”
“No shit? The others will eventually figure it out. Keep your head down until then. It’ll work out.”
Blaize seemed really nice and down to earth for a dragon prince. Until I joined my friends at our table, realized someonefrom the school sent me a message, and it was from Blaize. He was sprawled on his bed naked holding his erect cock.
“Ugh. Why are men?” I demanded, setting my phone down.
“What did we do now?” Khalid asked.
“I just had what I thought was a pleasant conversation with one and he assumed that meant I wanted a dick pic.”
The entire mood at the table changed. Even Khalid was pissed.
“Who?” Liam demanded.
“No way. The first severed dick was lovely, but you’ll get expelled if you do that here.”
“Love, I’dneverget you the same gift twice. I’d probably get you his thumbs this time. I’ll bet that would look fucking stupid if he’s a shifter.”
“That’s why I’m not telling you. You aren’t getting expelled because someone sent me a photo of his dick.”
Liam was sulking and Lucian was buried in his phone again. I didn’t know how dragon royalty worked, but if Liam didn’t get eaten, he’d get punished for cutting body parts of the heir. There was a severed dick on my pillow when they snatched me. Headmaster Mykene was smart enough to figure out it was a twisted present from Liam.
I would never tell him who sent that pic. I got up to get my food, so they knew I was done talking about it.
Ididn’t stab him but I did decide to punch Lucian in the kidneys since I couldn’t kick him at this angle. He bared his fangs at me and did that hissy vampire thing, but the bloke was a bloody germophobe so he wasn’t going to bite me again unless he asked a million questions about my soap and he never fought back.
If Ihadto share Sage with the Prince of Darkness because of some cosmic bond, then I needed him to be properly pissed when someone sent her a dick pic she didn’t ask for. I had one. Ilikedhaving one, but I didn’t get the appeal of dick selfies. Cocks were ugly and there were no Snapchat filters to makethem prettier or put a bunny face on it to soften the blow of an unsolicited dick pic. Plus, it was just rude when it wasn’t wanted.
“What was that for?” Lucian snarled.
“What could possibly be on your phone that’s more important than some man at this academy just violated Sage and sent her a dick pic?”
Lucian just rolled his eyes at me. Ponce. I really wanted to hit him again. He wasn’t taking this seriously enough.
“I heard Headmaster Mykene wrote the Ouroboros Academy app she put on our phone that allows us to message each other. The encryption is top-notch, but I got through it. I should be able to use it to piggy back into the other students’ phones and maybe find out who the Forsaken Ones are if they are texting about it. Before you so rudely punched me in the kidneys, I figured out who sent Sage the dick pic and was planning revenge that didn’t involve severed body parts or getting expelled.”
Ooh, maybe the little shite goblin was actually handy to have around. Because let’s face it, if someone was missing body parts, Headmaster Mykene was going to know it was me and I didn’t want to be parted from Sage because I avenged her.
“If we aren’t cutting body parts off, then I want in,” Khalid said.
Ah, I thought it was going to be me that corrupted Khalid, but it ended up being the Prince of Darkness. I wasn’t complaining.
“I’m listening,” I said.
“It was Blaize Vossen, the dragon prince. I’m also a prince, but I think it’s different with supernaturals. Imighthave immunity if I hit him but the rest of you wouldn’t. We can fuck with him digitally and no one will know it was us.”
