Chapter 79: Feral Desire
Andria’s POV
"And even if for anything, the fact that I didn’t rat you out the instant I found out that you were the vampire in the woods. I got you, Aria."
I stared at him, my heart pounding harder than ever. Sacrifice. Will. My blood.
Everything about this terrified me. And yet, some part of me knew he was right, and that was the only solution for me to win this election.
I remembered the hate in the other students’ eyes in my dream. If I want to prevent them from putting the wrong person in, out of ignorance, which will later affect everyone, including me, I have to make some sacrifices.
I twirled the bottle of potion in my hand, and I leaned back slowly, my body still hot, still restless, but my mind trying to process his every word. "And if this doesn’t work?"
His eyes darkened, voice steady. " This will work; you have to do away with that self-doubt. I know that you are strong. I don’t know why you doubt yourself, especially in that area. You need to believe in that part of you to summon it."
I exhaled, shaky and uneven. The room felt too heavy, too thick with tension. He stared at me with hope that I wouldn’t say no.
I stared at his face, his breath fanning against my skin, causing a great wave of desire to overcome me. I wasn’t sure whether it was the dream, the way he showed interest in my affairs, or the way he spoke about these things.
And then, against my will, my gaze dipped, just for a second, to his lips. I regretted doing that immediately, because as soon as my gaze drifted to his lips, the thoughts of the dream came flooding my senses, unwanted but vivid, and I tore my eyes away immediately.
I bit down on my lips, "Thank you," I said quickly, trying to break out from the position that we were in. Placing my hands against his hard chest, I wanted to shove him out of the way. "I understand you now,"
"Aria," he started, twisting his lips to the side in a one-sided smirk. That single act sent a jolt of tingly sensation to my core.
"Oh, moon goddess save me, I don’t want this mess," I murmured to myself.
"I can smell your desire, and that alone has kept me close to you. Something about your smell is very distinct, like a rare breed of wolves, the lunara-blooded wolf, when they are in their heat," he said, putting his other hand around my waist and the other one on the wall.
I tried to steady myself because at that moment, I was a jittery, wet mess, but even as I tried to, my whole body sank into his hands and into his words.
Even before I discovered he was the Dravari who chased after me that night, I had a little crush on him. He was the mate I accepted at first sight, which might explain why my body always betrays me when I’m close to him.
He stepped closer as if he wasn’t close enough, and just like in my dream, the tip of his nose was touching the tip of mine.
He slowly caressed the tip of my nose with his, maybe intentionally or maybe unintentionally. But whatever he was doing made me weak in the knees and dizzy with lust.
"You want me, I know," he said, letting his hands caress the small of my back sensually. "Just say it, stop putting up all these walls, you are my mate, and if I were the same enemy you met that night, you know that you wouldn’t be in this school by now."
My heart skipped a beat; his words were coaxing enough to make me surrender, but my mind kept telling me that it was the pheromones, a spur-of-the-moment thing.
"Not that I don’t want you, but we are in your office, we are in the academic ground, and besides, I don’t want this now," I blurted out, trying to straighten up.
I guess I must look like a wet, dizzy and horny animal now, because my heart beat was a mess, and my core was drenched.
"It takes everything within me not to kiss you right now, because I need your consent first," he said, tracing my lips with his thumb.
It gave me a relaxing and arousing feeling as well. I felt like my body was on fire, and there was still a cool breeze blowing on the fire, making sure the fire didn’t die off.
My breathing became erratic, and I knew from my heart in that moment that I would make some mistakes that I might regret later, but I didn’t want to care about it now.
I just wanted to stare into the face and aura that drew me to him the moment he stepped into that duel hall.
I just wanted to get lost in his embrace, his touch, his voice, his scent, everything about him.
"You aren’t saying anything, but I can read you. Not just because you are my mate, but remember, I’m a Dravari, I read minds," he whispered to my ears in a low seductive voice, causing another jolt of electricity to run through my veins to my core.
"Fuck it, Aria, you know we want it as much as he does, if not more," Athena weaned, "Look at you, you are a mess from the heat arousal he is causing you."
"Thanks for the reminder, Athena, but I’m not his whore, he is a Dravari. I’m not so sure our mate bond is real; it might just be because I’m a Lunara-blooded she wolf, so we are attracted to each other, like a predator to its prey," I retorted.
"I have waited so long to be this close to you, you know," he continued, "Your scent has been my obsession, since I perceived it, and even now, you smell better."
"Of course, Dravaris are attracted to Lunara-blooded she-wolf’s scent, making me feel like all these are just superficial. Maybe if I gave in to you now, I’ve done the worst thing —falling for the usual Dravari and Lunara-blooded superficial mate bond. In essence, I feel like all these aren’t real between us, just mere lust."
My words came out very raspy. I was running out of breath just staying close to him for this long; his breath fanned my neck constantly.
"Even you couldn’t say those words boldly, because I can hear your heart pounding loudly against your chest," he teased me, running his hands along my back and across my lips simultaneously.
I felt like I was getting wild with desire; I couldn’t control my responses, and this is not what I was used to; my hands and feet were trembling, and my cunt was history.
I felt like I was going to cum if his lips just grazed my lips; his presence was swallowing my aura. I didn’t like it, but I also did like it. It felt like a love-hate feeling.
A shiver ran through my spine as he drew closer, his lips almost touching mine.
"I think...I think," I was about to say something, but the words weren’t forming, my head was spinning, and my eyes were almost shutting down.
My body and wolf were calling out to him to take me now, but my mind kept telling me that I would regret it.
I wanted to listen to my mind, but my body kept pushing forward.
He didn’t stop either; his eyes were heavy with lust, he stared at me without even blinking, like he wanted to eat me up, like he would rather tear my clothes and take me right now than stand and just stare into my eyes.
But he was controlled. He gritted his jaw in a way that was so hot and sensual.
He dripped of masculinity and alpha dominance, which he was, and I just couldn’t take it anymore.
I lost all sense of control and leaned in.
"I knew you wanted it," he said, and I wanted to give him a witty comeback, because he sounded so cocky.
But he caught my lips in a slow, gentle, yet aggressive kiss; his lips first grazed mine, then he parted them slowly with his.
His hands massaged the small of my back, before I could get over that all too new sensation, his tongue slid in, caressing my tongue like it owned it.
He started gently and smoothly, switching on the right switches in my body, igniting a wild flame in me and then suddenly he too matched the frequency, and the kiss turned aggressive.
Our tongues fought for dominance, and before I knew it, he had taken me off my feet, and I was on his desk.
Our tongues still intertwined, fighting for dominance, he won, but I didn’t go down without a fight.
His hands continuously ravaged my back, and the heat and fire within me could set the whole academy on fire.