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“I can’t do anything about mine, but I can get rid of yours. Because it’s past fucking time someone came through for you.”
“Y-y—” I cleared my throat, forcibly rubbing away tears. “You’re a really great guy, Alex. Is it okay for me to say that I wish you didn’t have to go? I don’t want us to be apart... even for a little while... ever.” I flushed with each confession.
He tossed his head, raven locks falling over hooded eyes. “Is it okay for me to say that I’ve worked, waited, and trained harder than anyone has to go to the academy? I’ve wanted nothing butfor four years... until today. I hate that I have to go because you won’t be there.”
“It’s definitely okay to say that,” I whispered.
Any mood that was lost by our talk of many-headed monsters and homicidal councils came back with a vengeance. I was suddenly highly aware of the fact that it was just the two of us—alone.
“I’ll go first,” I blurted. “Shower. Take a shower first. Then you can go in—when I’m done! Go in the shower when I’m done, if you want to. You may not want to... shower... I’m sorry. I’ll shut up.”
Alex cracked a grin. “The shower’s all yours. I’ll run out and check on my horse in the meantime. She’s particular and has been known to stomp on a foot and break bones if she doesn’t get the right kind of apple on time. I might as well pay my bribes and give apologies now.”
His joke returned the light mood and covered for my silly babbling.
I wouldn’t lie. Alex leaving the room made it ten times easier for me to strip on the other side of the bathroom wall. Having him so close would’ve made my clammy hands slip and slide off my buttons.
Alex let me borrow a spare, clean toothbrush, a comb, soap, and one of his tunics to wear to sleep. I stood in front of the mirror after my bath, twisting, lifting my arms up and down, and checking myself out in the old-timey clothes.
I wasn’t going for a particular look. Despite getting us both in the same room together, I didn’t have expectations. My last roommate had to be strapped to her bed every night because she knew the best time to get stabby was when my eyes were closed. I wasn’t looking to lose my virginity to my next roommate after knowing him less than a day.
But still, it’s Alex...
I felt drawn to him in the strangest and realest way. I just wanted to be close to him for the short time we had before we were apart.
Taking a deep breath, I combed my hair and brushed my teeth again, then I patted some color on my cheeks and brushed my teeth one more time. I was alone with the hottest guy I’d ever seen, and the way he looked at me made my heart pop out of my chest like a cartoon. At the very least, I planned to leave the room the next morning with sore, puffy lips.
Padding out, Alex knelt on the floor with his back to me, making a bed out of pillows and blankets on the hearth rug. Seemed the clean tunic he gave me was his last because he wore none, gifting me an in-his-glory look at the lean, muscled bare back, ripped shoulders, and the tiny line poking above his waistline that dragged my gaze down his—
“Oh, hey, Aella. You finished?”
“Yep.” I snapped to his face, praying he didn’t catch me staring. “All yours.”
“Thanks.”
Alex ducked into the bathroom and took his shower. When he came out, his floor bed was taken apart and all the pillows and blankets put back where they belonged. He dried his hair with a towel, flicking droplets that ran clinging down his glistening, bronze chest like happy sluts.
Alex took one look at the bare rug and chuckled. “Did you decide to put me out in the manure after all?”
“No.” I patted the mattress. “It’s one night and we’re adults. We can handle sharing a bed.”
He bit his lip, those hooded eyes darkening. “Are we sharing a bed orsharing a bed?”
My heart thumped so loud it roared in my ear. “You’re a super direct guy, aren’t you? If you see a bush, you’re beating through that thing, not around it.”
Alex laughed. Closing the distance, the bed dipped with his weight. “Sorry. I am direct. So direct, I’ll tell you right now that I’d very much like to do both of those things with you and all the things in between.”
I was supposed to call on the Greek gods now to save me, so let one of them hear my cry because I was about to crumble into smoking dust and blow away.
“But I never want to take advantage. It’s important to do these things right.” His fingertips slid across the bed and brushed mine. “Don’t you agree?”
“I do,” I said softly. “Do you think we should go slower?”
“No, we can go fast. We can go warp speed if you like.”
I giggled.
“But there’s something you need to know about demigods and sex. We’re fertile,” he dropped.
