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She nodded with a wince. “Everybody’stalking about thebatbite.”
Holy fuck. “And what did you hear?”
This wince came with a layer of embarrassment. “Just that it uh… had a… private effect on all thecelibateKings.”
Holier fuck. “It’s been quite the interesting project,” he said casually.
Her brows rose with her constant little nods. “I bet. How are you holding up? Was thinking you might cancel our meeting. Not that you’d be tempted by me but because you wouldn’t wantmeto worry. Which I wouldn’t,” she assured, making her curls dance with the shake of her head. The onslaught of delectable cues she gave off put a steady hum in his cock.
“Glad to know that.”
“Which part?” she wondered, chewing on her lower lip, and waving her hand. “Never mind.”
“That you trust me,” he said, not wanting her to think he couldn’t lust after her. He surely could and surely was.
“I just heard you seemed to be steering clear of people. I’m glad you don’t feel the need to do that with me.”
“I feel the need to fight through whatever problems I encounter and do my job,” he said.
“Right?” she agreed, appearing half worried, but about what he wasn’t sure. “So is it like… something you can’t control or… we’re all curious about what actually is happening. Unless you can’t say,” she hurried with both hands up.
By the time he finished explaining how the bite works, her eyes were huge. “So, all your gifts are… tripled?”
He chuckled, eyeing her as he took another swig of water. “Why would this worry you? Unless you’re hiding things from me.”
Adamant head shake as she stared at him wide-eyed. Fuck, she was beautiful. He wanted his fists in those thick, silky curls,
“Are yousureabout that?” he gently pressed, wishing she’d confess whatever she was still hiding.
Her hands flew up and covered her face. “It was you I had a crush on! I’m sorry, I was young, and I got over it, but I don’t want you toseeit in my head somehow and think I still have it.” Her hands fell away, and her wide eyes were back on him. “I don’t have it still. I mean I care about you, and I like you as a person but that’s it,” she swiped the air sharply. “You taught me how to overcome and master my emotions and I did. And I must’ve done well, or you would’ve known all this,” she realized.
He put an arm on the back of the couch and his ankle on his knee, eyeing her. “I’m not bothered by a student’s crush, Lyric. It’s not that I couldn’t seethem, I chose not to see them. That’s what my job requires.”
Had she always been this sexy and adorable? Those expressive eyes were busy connecting dots before she lowered them to her clasped hands in her lap. “Okay,” she said, the word breathless. “Good.”
“And I’m still not bothered by crushes from my students. If anything, I have more ability to ignore them.” Apparently, he could lie three times as good as well.
She flashed him the fakest smile. “Glad I’m easy to deal with. That’s what I’ve been working on being.”
He lowered his eyes when her truthful lies boiled his blood and brought his lust to a new abominable low. Or was it a high? Whichever one meant dangerous. He felt everything shifting inside him and waited eagerly to see where it ended up. There was no place it could settle he wouldn’t want. Right now, he wanted to talk more about this crush. “But I am honored to have been crushed on by you.”
“Ah,” she said, nodding, still breathless and wanting to hide. “It can bea compliment.”
“How is your boyfriend situation?”
Brief confusion then, “Oh. Non-existent still.”
“So, Patrick didn’t work out?”
“Pffft, God no. He was way too slow for me.”
“And what do you want him hurrying with?”
“Anything! He’s sweet as can be but I knew when he was content to spend two whole hours creating shapes out of the clouds that it wasn’t going to work.”
Nidev had to chuckle. “That’s surely a five-minute task.”
“Is it even a task?” she laughed. “It was torture. And he stayed like five feet from me. I don’t think he even knows what bases are with girls.”
