Fortune Academy: Year Three - J.R. Thorn Page 0,21
right about now.” He peeled off his robe, and then began working at his pants zipper.
My eyes widened. “What do you think you’re doing?”
He continued to remove his clothes, never taking his gaze off of mine as he revealed lean muscles and gorgeous, biteable skin that made me lick my lips. “You said you wanted a bath, then bed.” He grinned, those eerie black eyes reflecting my warmed face. “I’m one of your Virtues, am I not? Surely that includes me.”
He didn’t wait for me to reply. Instead he slipped into the pool that was already halfway full. He hissed in a breath. “Oh sweet flames, this is amazing.” He swept in a circle, sending gentle ripples around him in the red glittering waters. “Come, pet. Don’t fight it. Just enjoy this with me.”
Unable to resist, I took off my clothes and folded them neatly in the corner. I tried not to pay attention to Hendrik who shamelessly watched me, but he was right about one thing. He was one of my Virtues and I should feel comfortable getting naked in front of him.
Except, excitement ran through me as I slipped into the warm water. It slid up my legs like velvet and encased me in warmth as I approached the mage. I couldn’t help but relax as the waters broke down my defenses.
Hendrik wrapped his arms around my middle and guided me to one of the edges that acted as a seat in the bath. He wrapped my legs around his waist and pulled me over him. Even though his cock was already hard and pressed on my delicate flesh, he didn’t move to penetrate me. Instead, he took one of the bars of soap—red, of course—and lathered it over my shoulders, my chest, and smiled up at me as I watched him. “You said you wanted to be clean, so I’m helping you, pet.”
“Hmm,” I said, leaning against him as my eyelids drooped. “You still think of me as a pet, huh? Even after everything we’ve been through?” My claws came out as I trailed a sharp talon across his neck. “Maybe you’re really my pet, my handsome mage.”
His dark eyes glanced up at me as a deep red aura blossomed from within, giving him a soft iris so that I could finally feel like I could match his gaze. It pained me how empty and void his eyes always were, a result of being a soulless creature, but Hendrik had more spirit in him than most supernaturals I knew. Maybe, one day, I could give him his soul back like I had for Olivia.
“Maybe,” he agreed, replying to my tease. He still held the soap as he ran it down my spine, reaching my ass and pulling me closer to him. With nothing to impede our bodies, his cock pressed hard against my clit, making me gasp. Hendrik grinned. “But that doesn’t change anything. I still own you, Lily.”
Hendrik rarely used my name, and right now he was driving me absolutely crazy. My body hummed with renewed need. Not just him, but for all of my Virtues. Kaito was right that our mate-bond was becoming insufferably tighter and it clamped around my body like a vice. I needed a release from this building pressure and I was tired of my Virtues calling the shots.
“Don’t get so full of yourself,” I said as I lifted my hips and positioned myself on top of him. I slipped him inside of me, deciding to claim what was mine, not his. I released a short gasp as I slid down, filling myself with his girth. “I take you when I want to take you,” I told him, pleasuring myself on his cock as his muscles flexed against me. I rested both hands on his shoulders, demonstrating my claim as I grazed my claws over his skin, drawing blood. “And you’re my pet now, Hendrik. One who needs to be trained.”
I lifted myself and thrust down again, sending him bucking against me as he threw his head back.
He wanted me all to himself and I would teach him a lesson about sharing. I reached out in the mate-bond and found all of my Virtues listening in. Their anger and jealousy simmered in my mind like poison and I would not tolerate it. We were a unit, a family, and we would learn to share our love together.
Portals opened, ones similar to Hendrik’s as I sent black shimmering collections of power to call