Masuk~~Abigail Darlington~~I was left seated for a good fifteen minutes.It was enough time for me to calm myself, and honestly, get bored waiting for Niccolo to do something. I preferred the boredom, because it meant that I wasn’t going to overreact. One day, I’m going to look back on this day and laugh at myself.How faking a personality got me far with three S-class men. Amazing, was I always this good at flirting, or did I just get lucky?Pretty sure the latter holds more truth.Movement catches my attention. Suddenly, I’m reminded that my limbs are locked up and my vision is blocked. I have to rely on my ears to figure out where Niccolo is. And if that sounds like a difficult task to do, you’d be absolutely right.Eventually, something touches my body. It feels like leather, with some pointy things. Damn.I swallowed; those nerves I’d calmed suddenly flaring up.My fingers tightened, forming into fists as I awaited pain. Niccolo sat behind me once more, his fingers crawling up my spi
~~Abigail Darlington~~“Anal is such a bad safe word.”I rolled my eyes slowly. He was being dramatic. “Okay, fine. Flower. My safeword is flower.”Niccolo cocked his head to the side in question, and I took a small moment to consider whether to be honest. Honestly, do I have to worry about this thing coming to bite me in the ass? I hope not.“I’m allergic to pollen. So most flowers, well, maybe all flowers except for the select few that don’t have much airborne pollen that can trigger my allergies. So Flower. Seems perfect.”His lips curled, and my heart did this weird thing from how he got even more handsome with that smile.“Flower it is. So you don’t know what a lot of the flowers smell like?”I shook my head, leaning my butt against the wooden table.“Okay.” His expression was thoughtful, and it made me curious. “Do you have any plants you like?”“Not really. I don’t have a green thumb, and the effort of having to take care of a plant doesn’t suit me.”“Don’t you have a lot of fr
~~Abigail Darlington~~We ate, talked, and found a kind of peace that made my chest warm. Niccolo answered all my questions with honesty. And after a few more glasses of wine, he didn't notice when the conversation turned personal. Now, I didn't do that on purpose. I could tell he was suspicious. His face does this thing where it goes from empty to suddenly showing some random emotion that always surprises me. When I say something he doesn't expect, his eyes go wide, his eyebrows almost disappear into his hairline, and his mouth parts just a bit. It's enough to crack through his blank slate. Somehow, he let his guard down. I'd like to say the wine really did him in, but I know that's unlikely since it'd take a lot to raise a Xevier's blood alcohol level. Assuming everything I read about them is still true. He knows I'm a bit suspicious, but that doesn't force him to do anything about it. He just allows me to steer the question in a personal direction. I got to learn some very int
~~Niccolo Amoretti~~Dinner kicks off with Darling and me enjoying drinks and appetizers while we await our main courses. She started a conversation right away.“So, don’t judge, this is just the nerd in me. I have questions to ask about you.”I cock up an eyebrow, curious about what questions she might have.“Okay, but you know that’s against the rules, right?”She waves me off dismissively. “No, no. Not about your personal life. I don’t care about that. I want to know more about Xeviers. There was an interesting, but not all that knowledgeable, lecture today.” I watched her with surprise. Her lips close over the straw on her cocktail, and her throat moves as she swallows.Every action she takes comes off as seductive to me. My brain is wired differently tonight.“Why do you want to know about my kind?” It’s the only question that came to my mind. I figured she’d be at least curious about the lives of the men she’s going to sleep with, but that’s not the case.It shouldn’t be that su
~~Niccolo Amoretti~~My lecture today went well.Actually, it was annoying and frustrating; I wanted to pull my hair out and throw my glasses against the wall. I can only blame one person, and that is Darling. I should have known she was always a smart ass. I don’t even know how she hid it from me and Romeo for the first month she took our classes.This time, she was unleashed. Cutting me off during the lecture, rather than pretending to be bored, and challenging everything I was trying to teach. She’s infuriating. It’s clear she studied hard, but damn this woman.I’m definitely weird because it turned me on to be challenged like that. I wanted to… I’m a teacher. I was in teacher mode; she’s not supposed to seduce me while I’m working.Was she seducing me?I can’t tell with this girl. Her arguing with me was so hot, I almost stuttered while explaining my points. I never stutter when I teach. I don’t show emotions while I teach, but as the class empties, and I turn to stare at her, my
~~Abigail Darlington~~After a round of laughter, Jade and I finally stopped to really think about what had just occurred. She reminded me that people like Chelly and Elio’s friends are asshole who would not take kindly to a C-class omega standing up to them, and she told me to be careful not to be alone with any of them.No matter how they feel, the school takes attacks and assaults seriously because money can fix anything, but not a really stained reputation. Even if they don’t think people will believe me, Jade will speak out too, and that’s something they’d have to worry about because she’s from old money too.Yeah, I know, the only thing that can beat money and influence…. Is money and influence. Shocker. Getting confident has really dimmed some of my common sense.Jade’s words stopped my happiness for a while and reminded me to mostly focus my anger and revenge on Elio. Those bastards didn’t mind getting physical with me back when I was trying to play nice, so antagonizing them







