Compounding Traumas (Artemis University #6) - Erin R Flynn Page 0,106

fridge… And plans for a weekend I hoped we’d never forget.

“I like secrets when you’re involved, but I’m also worried about you,” he muttered, watching as I locked the portal. “Your guards aren’t here.”

“I know. I talked to them. Two packs of fae dogs are here, and Zack can unlock the portal in an emergency, but this is our time.”

He opened his mouth but then closed it. “I don’t even know how to lock a portal and give someone a specific key to unlock it.”

“It’s a fairy thing.” I shrugged. It was, and I honestly didn’t understand how I did it. I simply did. I moved my fingers over his lips when he went to say more. “Darby, I’m about to show you the secret. Do you want to see it or keep grilling me?”

He rolled his eyes at me. Of course he wanted to see it.

It was as if fate also knew we needed the night off because we were having unseasonably warm weather… Which meant we could use the pool.

And I planned to.

Naked.

Darby got clued in pretty fast when I started stripping at the kitchen and left a trail of clothes for him to follow.

I turned to face him when I was without anything left to take off and at the edge of the pool. “The secret is your girlfriend wants you inside of her all weekend. I’m aching for my boyfriend. You game?”

I didn’t wait for his answer, jumping backwards into the pool. I opened my eyes when I touched the bottom and looked up as I had months ago when he’d brought me to one of my resorts for a time out when I’d needed it. Moments later, he dove into the pool after me, snagging me around the waist and pulling me up to the surface.

He barely gave me enough time to gasp for air before his mouth was on mine. Pressing me up against the wall of the pool, he ground his naked body against me. I wrapped my leg around him and even moved his hand lower as if telling him to hurry up.

“I am not rushing this,” he growled against my lips.

“Please?” I whimpered. “Please fuck me, Darby. We can go slow and foreplay and make love and whatever later, but I so, so want you.”

“I want you too, agra, but we said slow and our pace. I need to know what changed,” he muttered. “Are you okay? I—we just got back together. I didn’t know you were even thinking of—”

“I was,” I promised. I had been thinking of this already. I truly had.

And then he had kicked the shit out of some students from the exchange program that were in our Power Training I class who were taking shots at me behind my back. He didn’t think I knew about it, and I hadn’t wanted to start problems for Mel, but my prickly pear had laid the smack down. It had been making me vibrate with need for my already plotted plans since it had happened this morning.

“This was already the plan for a romantic weekend,” I explained when I realized he wasn’t going to budge. “And then I heard something in some exchange students minds that got me fucking hot.”

He groaned, totally busted and burying his face against my neck. “I didn’t want you to find out.”

“Which I find ridiculously hot. You know I can fight my own battles, but you’re still my hero who would fight for me.” I ducked my head and kissed him. “Fuck me, Darby. Claim your prize for being the hero, my knight in shining armor, and make me scream your name.”

“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, agra,” he groaned, letting me hear his Irish accent deeper and saying that, as supes didn’t believe in the Christian god. He caved, shoving his fingers inside of me as he attacked my mouth. “Glad you’re not pissed at what I said.”

“No, be possessive like that,” I moaned as he kissed down my neck to my breasts. “Tell those assholes I’m yours and you’ll fucking gut them if they touch your woman. You scared them, and it was hot how much you cared they might hurt me. You—I got so fucking turned on seeing it in their heads. And gods, were they jealous. They wanted your agra like you have me, Darby.”

“Fuck they did. The fuckers wanted you more than they wanted to know what you are for their councils,” he growled as his fingers moved faster. “But you’re my