Page 60 of The Villain We Tempt
Knightsblood doesn’t have an official boxing team, just a club of fighting enthusiasts. Most are in The Reckless, though Damiano is heavily involved, too.
Ari and I both go silent as a shirtless, brooding Adrik stalks toward the boxing ring, taking a drag on the cigarette hanging from his lower lip before deftly flicking it away.
He steps into the middle of the ring and touchesbare fistswith another guy I think I recognize from The Reckless.
Then, without any preamble, they start to fight…although I don’t know if you can call the way Adrik morphs into a dark god of savagery and warfare “fighting”. It’s more a case of the other guysurvivingAdrik’s sudden violent onslaught.
It’s over in under a minute, leaving Adrik’s opponent on the ground bleeding from the nose, mouth, and a cut over his left eye. But he grins as he spits out blood and accepts Adrik’s hand to help him back up.
“Psychoticbehavior,” I mutter. “Who thehellwould be interested in?—”
My mouth snaps shut as I turn to find Ari madly sketching in her sketchbook. Her pencil slashes across the page, gradually revealing an action-blurred figure of a monster with snarling teeth and raised fists.
Just kidding. She’s drawing Adrik.
“Uh…Ari?”
She glances at me and blushes before her gaze slips back to the page in front of her. “Calm down, horny-pants,” she giggles. “It’s perfect practice for dynamic anatomy sketches.”
A grin creeps over my face. “Oh, I agree. Adrik’sdynamic anatomyis?—”
She whacks my arm, rolls her eyes, and goes back to her sketching.
Still grinning, I turn and then scowl a little when I see Lochlan hanging off the field goal, his arm muscles flexing as he does a dozen quick pull-ups, all while laughing at something Drago is saying.
Fuck a duck.
It’s seriously unfair that such an arrogant dick is that physically attractive.
“Want to borrow a sketchpad?” Arianna snickers.
My face heats as I turn to see her grinning at me, and at where I was staring.
“Depends. Think I could hit him from here with it?”
She laughs and goes back to her drawing. I sigh and take out my phone to covertly check in on my account.
The very second after I open the app, I get a new DM notification.
Fromhim.
My pulse skips.
The Ghost Prince
did you enjoy yourself the other night?
Heat suffuses my face as I swallow.
Yes.
Yes, I very much enjoyed myself. I may or may not still be masturbating to it days later…
Velvet Villainess
Not as much as YOU did, I’m sure.
The Ghost Prince
