Page 67 of Phantom Flower

“Good boy.”

He released me and moved to his side of the bed.

I scrambled under the covers, pulling them up to my chest. I kept waiting for him to roll over, to touch me, to finish what he started that night in the forest.

My body was already half-hard just from the memory.

But he did not.

Instead, he reached for the lamp.

“Wait,” I said quickly. “Can you… leave it on? Please?”

Dimitri paused, studying me. “Are you scared of the dark?”

I swallowed, refusing to meet his eyes. “No. I’m not scared. It’s just… I get anxious. It’s stupid, I know.”

I expected him to mock me, but he did not. He simply pulled his hand back. “Okay. Light stays on.”

Dimitri settled back against the pillows, one arm tucked behind his head.

“Good night, little fairy.”

I turned my head slightly to look at him.

This was dangerous.

He was dangerous.

Chapter 19

Rei Kurosaki

Monday came too fast.

I had not even wanted to leave the house, but here I was, sitting in the passenger seat of Dimitri’s car as he drove me to Bloodburn Academy. One of his hands stayed on the wheel while the other occasionally rested on my thigh.

Every time his fingers flexed against my leg, I felt a confusing mix of irritation and arousal. Which was fucking embarrassing.

I expected him to drop me off at the gates and disappear. That would have been easier. Instead, he parked right in the student lot and got out with me.

He stayed glued to my side.

The moment we stepped into the hallway, everyone looked at us.

After Dimitri’s public announcement that he was the one in the video with me, no one was really surprised to see us together anymore. But then he disappeared for a whole week because of his father, and the whispers started again. People thought he had gotten bored of me, or that whatever this was between us had already run its course. So when we walked through the hallways together again, it felt like the spotlights had suddenly turned back on, brighter than before.

“Don’t you have classes?”

“I switched every single subject to match yours.”

I stopped walking and turned to stare at him. “You can’t be serious.”

“Deadly serious, little fairy.” He leaned down. “You think I’d let you wander around this place unprotected after what happened this weekend? Not a fucking chance.”

I swallowed hard, trying to ignore the way my pulse reacted to his closeness. “Can’t you at least watch me from afar? You’re making everything worse by sticking to me like this.”

Dimitri’s arm snaked around my waist and he yanked me flush against his side. I yelped, stumbling into his hard chest as dozens of eyes locked onto us.