Chapter 63

**Avery**

After Cassius made me breakfast and we both were quite full, he drove me to school in his black sports car. It still feels alien to me to be seen in public with The Trio especially riding with them. But they are my mates and I will adapt in time.

When we pull into the school parking lot, everyone stops and stares. Cassius turns to me and takes my face into his hands. “Let them look at who only I can touch. I have the most beautiful and amazing mate.” Then he kissed me passionately. As our tongues danced to an imaginary beat, the taste of our breakfast began to fade and all I could taste was him.

He became my world as everything and everyone else faded into the background. We pulled away, panting and aching with longing. Cassius whispered, “We will continue this later, little mate. Now be a good girl and let’s get this day over quickly because I am not sure how long I can behave.”

I felt my cheeks heat as my panties dampened. I bit my lip and nodded in response. Cassius chuckled as he got out and opened my door. As we were walking into the school, Trisha came running up. “Oh my God! You mated!” She hugs me and whispers, “His bite marks are all over you, aren’t they?”

“What!” I exclaim in shock. She giggles as she takes my hand. Cassius growls. I lean up and give him a soft kiss. “It is okay. I told you that she’s my friend. We need some girl talk time and then I am all yours...I promise.” I see his eyes return to that beautiful shade of blue before he kisses my forehead. Trisha walked me to my locker and the restroom where she gave me some foundation to cover some of my hickies. I had read about them, but reading and experiencing are two vastly different things. Once we finished my cover-up, she walked me to my first class.

Despite all of the envious, hateful, and myriad of other looks I received, the day went by quickly and smoothly. I was sitting beside Clint as we worked on the next part of Mrs. Moore’s assignment, the speaker in the room clicked to life with an announcement. It said that the prom had been changed and would be in one week and to make up for the inconvenience, all tickets would be free. I looked at Clint, “He did it. That was fast.”

He winked, “Nothing is off-limits to nobility, my Queen. We will go shopping and I can’t wait to see you both in and out of your dress.” I gasped. Clint laughed, “Avery, I will never stop wanting you even if you smell like Cassius and have his and Asher’s bite marks on you.” I slink down in my seat as the final bell rings. Clint pulls me up and out of my seat into a heated kiss. I heard everyone gasp before they faded away. All I could hear was our hearts beating in sync as he held me close and kissed me senselessly.

We break away to applause from Mrs. Moore and a few of the students who remained. Clint said confidently as he took my hand, “Tomorrow you are mine, but let’s get you to my brother before he comes and rips you from me.”

“He wouldn’t! Would he?”

Clint nods, “He would. Any of us would. You are ours and we want all of you all of the damn time. If you were solely mine, I would have had us excused from school for a month or two so that we could spend every moment together doing whatever we wanted to each other.”

“You can’t be serious.”

He leans over and nibbles my ear as he whispers, “I am very serious and I can’t wait to play with you and show you just how good it can feel for both of us.” Play? He can’t be talking about the kind of play in my books, can he? I look into his eyes. He winks, “Yes, Avery, that type of play.” Nervously, I chew on my lip. He chuckles as he leans down and sucks my lip free. “Sweets, if you keep doing that I am likely to take you right here, right now, and not give a fuck who watched.”

I gasped as I pressed my thighs together to try and stop the ache that had begun to pulse between my legs. Cassius wraps his arms around my waist as he kisses the top of my head. “Little mate, you have so much to learn. Just be our good girl and let us show you the world and all of the wondrous ways your body can move with ours,” Cassius huskily said.

Clint gave me one last kiss before he left Cassius and me alone in the hallway. “How did you get prom changed?”

He grins, “You obviously haven’t passed Mate 101 yet. I simply told the school board that their Queen didn’t want to wait.

They were ready to make it this weekend but I told them that next weekend would suffice.”

I turned and smacked his chest. “You are such an asshole!”

He laughs, “I told you that. I will always be an asshole, but I am your asshole.”

“What am I going to do with you?”

He winks as he takes my hand and we walk to his car, “I intend to show you a few things, but we need to make a stop first.”

“To where?”

“You’ll see. Now get in and I will buckle you up,” he said as he made sure I was comfortably inside of his car.