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“Babe, I should be thanking you. We might have a chance at winning this thing because of you.”
“I forgot to ask, what’s the prize for winning?”
“$5,000 and some recording equipment. It would be a total game changer for us.”
I frown, thinking of the school we go to, the privilege it’s dripping with. “My family doesn’t support my ‘bad habits’ as they call it. I have to make my own way for the things I want.” He’s still holding me against him, and I can feel each ridge of his muscles. He moves my hair, baring my neck. His breath tickling my skin as the faintest press of his lips linger on my skin.
“Here!” Skye says handing me a beer. I break away from Walker’s embrace a jumble of emotions.
“How did you get this?”
“Javelynn has their ways.” I tip my beer bottle, clinking it against Skye’s.
“To an amazing performance and even better night!” She says before we both drink.
“To an even better night!”
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO
Emmet
“And no one else has seen this video?” Headmaster Hayden asks, his face flickering with the light of the fireplace’s flames.
“No one. I’ve searched the internet and school servers to see if anyone’s even mentioned it. It seems that people were too busy fleeing the area.” The guys at the house are too busy throwing a party or attending the Battle of the Bands to notice I’ve slipped out for this meeting.
He presses play again, watching as Salem lifts her hand to the sky, stopping the lightning bolt mid air, before directing it away from Pierce’s fallen form.
“Incredible.” The Headmaster murmurs. “She must have been hiding her powers all this time. You haven’t seen any mention of magic in her messages? Her internet searches.”
“Not a word. Are we sure she knows?”
“How could she not?” He scoffs angrily. “Look how she walks with purpose like she knows exactly what she’s doing. No, she knows. Now to get her on our side. It’s time you come out of shadows with her, Envy. I don’t trust Pierce’s head is clear enough for this, especially after those pictures you showed me of them kissing in the hall after this. Pity.” He tsks. “Can I trust that you’ll see this to completion? The clock is ticking.”
“I know what’s at stake. You can count on me, sir.”
“This body is becoming uncomfortable.” He complains, rubbing over his knobby gnarled knuckles.
I take a sip of whiskey letting the burn work it’s way down into my chest.
“How much do you think she knows?” I ask.
“Hard to tell just by this video, which is why I need you to feel her out. It’s unlikely that she knows who any of you truly are. What you harbor inside of you. What’s the status of Emmet’s father? Were you able to get your hands on the signal blocker?”
“He’s been busy. He’s supposed to come down in a week to take me out to dinner in Seattle to discuss the business. I can ask him then.”
“Good.”
We sit in silence, on each side of the burning fire. Everything was coming into place. Now, all we needed was to get Salem on our side. Get her to open the portal no questions asked. Then I could be free to remain in this form forever. If I failed, we’d all be ripped back into purgatory. That was something the others weren’t aware of. When Pierce made his deal with the Headmaster, he wasn’t told our fate would result in freeing all seven of us from our demons should we fail. The Headmaster was aware of how much the others resented him and the demons they’d been saddled with, he was no fool. And neither was I.
They’d have to drag me back to that hell hole, and I wasn’t going without a fight. I’d play as dirty and dark as I had to, to get what I wanted.
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE
Walker
I’m on fucking cloud nine with this wildcat swaying to the music in front of me. We stay to listen to the other bands performances. None hold a candle to our set, I’m sure of it. But we won’t know the judge’s decision until tomorrow. I’m feeling the buzz of alcohol coursing through my veins. I usually don’t indulge, careful to keep a tight leash on the Wrath inside of me, but all it took was a beaming smile from the beauty in my arms to make me break. I cap my drink limit at two beers, enjoying the feeling of my hands holding Salem’s lush hips. She has the body of a witchy vixen, and I ache to bend her to my will. I wonder what she’d feel like wrapped around my cock. The body part in question, likes the direction of my thinking and stirs to life against Salem’s full ass. I can tell the moment she feels me, her swaying halts for a moment before she arches into it, making me release a groan.
Shit. I’m rock hard in a sea of people. She rolls her hips on me, and it takes everything inside of me not to bend her over and take her right here. I notice a few guys eyeing her with interest. I shoot them my best ‘fuck off’ glare, wrapping my arms around her front as she grinds on me to the rhythm of the music. I never want this song to fucking end. I lean into her whole heartedly, running my hands up and down her sides, hitting the swell of her breasts.
