Zodiac Academy Fated Throne - Caroline Peckham Page 0,237

somewhere quieter?” she asked and I nodded because hell yes I did. But oh fuck the stars I don’t know what I’m doing.

She snagged my hand and towed me off the dancefloor, my gaze falling to her ass in that tight dress, making me want to bite down on my knuckles. She looked so edible, maybe I could understand Hadley’s needs after all because right now all I wanted to do was sink my teeth into this girl and taste her.

We slipped through a side door into a stairwell and Sofia pressed her back to the wall, reeling me in by the hand. I observed her with a fierce desire as I took my time to memorise every inch of the way she looked tonight, and she bit her lip in anticipation.

I pressed one hand to the wall above her head, running my fingers along her jaw with my other hand as I angled her lips up toward mine. I may not have screwed a girl before, but I knew how to kiss one. I’d made out with girls at my old school before Father had kept me home after my Order had Emerged.

Her breath caught and the air seemed to spark like a livewire hung between us. “You are the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen,” I growled and she reached out to fist her hand in my shirt. “And you gave me something to look forward to when I thought I had nothing in my future. I dreamed about meeting you every night, Sofia. And it didn’t come close to the reality. You’re my sunshine in the dark.”

She yanked me closer, but she didn’t have to, I was already moving, crushing her to the wall and pressing my lips to hers. Her mouth parted for me and I slid my tongue in to taste her, her tongue meeting mine with hungry strokes as we devoured each other.

My hard on ground into her thigh and she reached between us, running her palm up and down it and making me groan needily. I wanted to touch her too, but I also didn’t want to fuck it up and make her realise how much of a virgin I was. But if I didn’t touch her, what was she gonna think?

I focused on kissing her until she was panting and I swear I was gonna come in my pants with the way her fingers grasped and caressed my cock. My head was spinning and I couldn’t get enough.

I reached down to hook her thigh over my hip and she sighed my name, the sound the best thing I’d ever heard.

“Do you like that, baby?” Tyler’s voice cut through the fog in my brain and I jolted in surprise, my lips parting from Sofia’s as I whipped around, shielding her from him and stamping my foot in anger.

“By the stars, Tyler, how long have you been standing there?” Sofia demanded, not seeming remotely bothered that he’d just caught her with her tongue in another guy’s mouth.

She moved to my side, straightening the skirt of her dress and folding her arms, totally unphased.

“Long enough to work out that Xavier here is a virgin,” Tyler said with a wicked smirk and I neighed furiously. “I’ve had my suspicions for a while, but now I’m positive.”

“Fuck off,” I snapped.

“It’s not a big deal,” Tyler said placatingly. “You don’t mind, do you baby?” He looked to Sofia and heat swept up the back of my neck. I couldn’t face her, or deny it or do anything but just stand there like a lump of awkward.

“Why would I mind that?” she replied and my heart thumped powerfully at the conviction in her words.

Tyler strutted forward like the big I am and hooked Sofia toward him by the waist. “Guess this means I’ve got to win you again, huh?”

She nodded, a smile playing around her lips. “Sorry, babe, Xavier’s just so…” She looked at me in a way that made my insides squeeze and it felt so fucking good. “And we have a connection.”

“I know,” he purred, brushing her hair behind her ear and glaring over her head at me. “Oh well, I kinda enjoyed beating down the lesser stallions before.” He dropped his mouth to hers, kissing her fiercely and a furious whinny built in my throat which I didn’t allow out.

She moaned as she arched into him just like she had with me and my dick got even harder. I didn’t know why, but watching them together