Page 23 of Messenger of Death
“What the fuck, Blaize?” Zander asked. “Why do you have all these social media posts about how sexy the goats on campus are? Those arefood.”
Yeah, that was all Khalid. Liam held his fist out and Khalid bumped it. This was just so satisfying, but it wasn’t over yet.
“What the fuck?” Blaize said. “I didn’t?—”
Before Blaize could finish a massive flock of birds flew over and at least three of them were crows. They just unloaded and covered Blaize in shit. Blaize shrieked and tried running off. The birds kept pace and just kept shitting on him.
“That’s going to happen every time he goes outside,” Liam said proudly. “It’s going to be the poop apocalypse. I even got Iman in on it. She got mad I was asking about her being stuck as a cat and threatened to shit in my shoes, so I told her if shereallywanted to violate someone’s shoes, she should do Blaize’s. She was totally on board because she got an unwanted dick pic, too.”
“That’s disgusting,” I said. “And I actually think he deserves it.”
It wasn’t my style, but I found it satisfying to watch the look on Blaize’s face when a flock of birds shat on it.
“Did we just bond?” Liam asked.
“Yes,” Khalid said.
I didn’t answer because I didn’twantto like Liam, but I was starting to. His first reaction to everything was violence, but he’d shown he was capable of other things when he needed to be.
No one would ever be able to trace Blaize’s social media posts about being a goat fucker back to us and his phone would be doing some strange things no one would be able to figure out, but there was one person who was smart enough to figure all this out, and she was stomping towards us.
“Was that you?”
“Depends. Are you mad or did you love it?” Liam asked.
Because yeah, Sage didn’t want him mutilated, but she also didn’t say she wanted us to get revenge. We just decided that for her. She refused to give us a name. I saw red and got his name.
Sage just flung herself at Liam and he finally got that kiss he plotted out. He looked like he wanted to keep going, but she stopped and turned to us.
“Was this a group effort?” she asked.
“Yes, and I won’t be mad if you kiss me, too,” Khalid said.
So, she did. Then, she turned to me.
“I’d like to kiss you, too, if you’re okay with that.”
I liked that she asked first, but I was also spooning her naked every night because something just took over as soon as my head hit the pillow, so we were probably past all of that. Whatever issues I had with other people touching me clearly didn’t apply to Sage.
“I’d like you to kiss me, too.”
Sage just squeezed me so tight when she kissed me. She was essentially obsessed with the coffee bar in the dining hall and she was wearing some kind of mocha-flavored lip balm. I pressed my tongue to the seam of her lips and she parted to let me in.
My breath caught. I had no shortage of people who wanted to kiss me because of my title, but I didn’t think there was anyone I’dwantedto kiss as much as Sage. Her scent was amazing this close—Lavender, amber, and honey.
I couldfeelthe magic pumping in her blood, so I pulled away before my fangs came out. She offered, and I knew if I ever had her blood, it would be potent. I just wouldn’t until I learned how to control my bite.
“I don’t knowwhat the fuckis going on in my classroom, but you’re all running laps!” Professor Adamastus yelled.
Worth it.
Running wasn’t my favorite thing. I loved taking walks, but running not so much. Elliot warned us Professor Adamastus could be brutal if you fucked with him. Professor Adamastus knew damned well someone was fucking with Blaize and since it didn’t happen where Elliot and Petros could laugh about it, it was probably someone in our class.
He didn’t demand to know who did it or why. He just made us run for the rest of class. I was wheezing, but I didn’t complain because technically, that entire spectacle was my guys getting revenge for me.
I wasn’t even angry about it. If anything, it was romantic. Blaize was a pest, but he didn’t deserve Liam’s brand of revenge.They came up with an alternative and it was perfect. Dick pics were gross and felt a little violating, especially when all I did was have what I thought was a pleasant conversation with someone.
I was dragging back to my dorm to shower before dinner because I just felt gross. Morgana met us in the hall with Elliot and Petros. They all fell out laughing.
