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Alex jerked back. “Aella, are you okay? Did I do something? Did I hurt you?”
“No.” I scrambled up. “You didn’t. I just—”Can’t experience my first time under the disgusted, watchful eye of a trapped goddess who won’t shut up! Selene’s ruining it before it’s even happened.“I can’t do it like this. I’m sorry.”
I took off running.
“Aella, wait. Wait!”
Shooting out the door, I left his pleas behind.
“Good,” Selene purred to my frustrated tears. “Now begin your search outside this time. One of my allies tells me there are shrines to the minor goddesses near the swamp patch. You can swim, can’t you?”
Her laughter rang in my ear, all the way down the hall.
I KNOCKED ON THE DOOR, then held my breath—chest tightening as footfalls sounded on the other side of the wood.
Throwing it open, a cloud of cedar and jasmine steam wafted out of the room, letting me know it was him before the cloud cleared, and my smile met his widening eyes.
“Aella?” Alex looked up and down the hall as if checking if he was in the right place. “Are you okay? You look... wow.”
I chewed my lips, sandal toeing the hardwood.Wowwas what I was going for when I borrowed Daciana’s sheer, lacywhite dress. A complete and total work of art, it was lighter than tissue paper, and even more see-through.
“I’m more than okay, Alex. I went looking for you in the training room, but you’d already left. So I came here.”
After bathing, doing my hair, putting a few pieces of jewelry on—
I glanced down at my bare wrist.
—and taking one off.
Selene screeched her head off when I shoved the bracelet under my pillow, threatening to send her minions after me. To which I replied, “If you wanted that threat to continue working, you shouldn’t have told me the prophecy hinges on me and Alex. We’re two of the safest students in the whole school, because you can’t let anything happen to us. You need us.”
I couldn’t repeat the things she called me. Mostly because it was in ancient Greek. But the hatred was loud and clear. It also faded to nothing as I left my room and walked farther away. Finally, the only voice in my head was my own.
“How did you know which room was mine?” he asked.
“I didn’t. I knocked on a lot of doors. Pissed a lot of people off. Pretty sure someone ran off to snitch to Vasili.”
Chuckling, he held out his hands. “Well then, you better get in here.”
My heart thumped stepping inside. His room was even grander than I expected the Titan dorms to be.
A roaring fire toasted me to the bones—night and day the clinging chill that hung around the Sisyphean dorms. The Titans were granted a huge, four-poster bed that would more than fit two people comfortably. A dressing table and vanity, a desk, shelving, and an attached bathroom. All of it expensive, beautiful, and done in the enchanting colors of ivory and seafoam green.
There was something calming about the space. I already felt safe and comfortable here. Although that might’ve been because of the best part of the room—the shirtless man padding across it, still damp from his bath.
I cleared my throat, leaning against the bedpost. “Just to be clear that no earlier wasn’t because I didn’t want to do it. I really, really do. That’s why I’m here for the sexual... activity. Sexual congress. Coitus, and that.
“Whoo whoo,” I blared, sounding off like a train. “All aboard for sex town!”
Alexander’s shoulders shook holding in his laughter. “Why are you talking like that, sesza?”
“I don’t know,” I cried. “Please, shut me up.”
“Your wish is my mandate.”
His lips crashed on mine.
We went at each other like wild animals—devouring each other’s mouths.
