Violet had knocked on Vyshena's door the next morning. It opened slowly as if it was cracked. Violet poked her head in, seeing Vyshena braiding her hair. "There's something I need to talk to you about. Tairn and Sgaeyl-"
"I know. Did you have fun?" Vyshena asked Violet who had barged into her dorm room the next morning. "You know?" Violet asked and she parted her lips. "Rhiannon told me." Violet took a step back, "oh." Answering while Vyshena raised her brows and pulled the jacket over her arms.
"Violet, listen to me. And trust me," Vyshena said, holding the sides of Violet's head and staring into the girl's eyes. "Just understand what you're getting into. It was forced on us, don't let it be forced onto you." Violet nodded her head, quickly taking a step forward and wrapping her arms around Vyshena. "Did your dragon ever mate? Do you know what horror that is?" Vyshena smiled. "Fyda is her name. And no, but I can recognize it. It is hell, only when you don't have someone with you." And Vyshena remembered when Xaden had gone back home after his first year, with Sgaeyl and Tairn who found themselves in a secluded spot.
Xaden and Vyshena spent the rest of the night breaking Xaden's bed into wooded shatters.
Violet shook her head. "It's not going to happen again." She said, "do not promise me that, Sorrengail." Vyshena said while squeezing Violet tight and taking a step back. "Truly, it is okay." Vyshena said, lied, and forced a smile on her lips that didn't reach her eyes.
"You seriously, slept with Mattias last night?" Vyshena heard as she sat in battle brief. "What? You made out with Sorrengail." She felt the annoyance and rage in his chest. "You fucked Mattias." Xaden felt the smile on her lips as she danced the quill around in her fingers. "And?" She asked and heard the growl come from him. "I'll do it again." She whispered it this time, as if she was in an actual conversation with her once betrothed.
January hit, and sheets of ice were surrounding Basgaith. "I have to fight Barlowe." Violet spoke quietly to Vyshena as they walked to the gym. She gasped, "what do you have?" Vyshena asked Violet who smiled.
"Oranges."
"I have her. She's fine." Vyshena told Liam while following Violet to the mat. She stood with her toes to it, hands in the jacket of her pants as Jack pointed his finger to Vyshena. "You're next?" He threatened and Vyshena giggled, a small smile on her lips. "Okay, Jack. I'm next." She agreed while pulling her hands from her pocket and smiling at him.
"Don't make him more mad." Liam seethed. "She is going to be fine." Vyshena said and Liam heard the tone in his head. He furrowed his brows, slowly looking down at her. It was going good until Violet stumbled back with a scream, her hands on the sides of her head. "He's using his powers!" Vyshena shouted while taking a step on the mat.
Before she could get to him, Violet was shoving the oranges deep into his mouth. She stumbled back, landing while Vyshena dropped beside her. "Breathe," Ridoc spoke with his face in front of Violet's.
As soon as she was awake, she fell unconscious.
Xaden was sitting beside Violet's bed, "oranges?" He asked while Violet rolled her eyes and sat up in bed. She winced, "eleven on one side and nineteen on the other." Xaden answered what she was thinking while she slowly laid back.
"If I didn't know any better, I'd think that kiss scared you." Xaden squinted his eyes, it did scare him because it was foreign to him. She wasn't her. "That's not up for discussion." Xaden quickly said, but Violet understood the sadness he had for a moment in his eyes.
"It was a mistake. You and I are going to be stationed together for the rest of our lives, never be able to escape the other. Getting involved- even on a physical level- is colossal blunder. No point in talking about it." Violet leaned back as if she was hit by his words, and Xaden only shrugged his shoulders.
"I'm taking over." Xaden told her and saw the confusion on her eyes. "Taking over what?" Her eyes splintered while she saw the smile on his lips.
"Everything when it comes to you."
Vyshena walked in the gym, seeing Violet underneath Xaden in what would of been provocative. No, it was provocative.
Liam turned his head, seeing Vyshena in the doorway with her eyes glued to the two sparring. There was suddenly an unbearable heat in the gym, immediately growing within seconds as Xaden pulled away from Violet and pushed himself up from the mat. Sweat pooled from his body the closer he got to her. Without saying anything, he walked straight toward Vyshena, chest to chest, he pushed her out of the door and it slammed shut after him.
Violet found Rhiannon who had the same look on her face, wiping the sweat from her forehead. Emetterio cleared his throat, "okay, uh." Raising his brows, then back to the door. Violet swore he had a reddish tint to his cheeks, just as everyone else had. That was hot.
Xaden swung his door open and threw Vyshena in by her arm as she tripped forward. He slammed the door, the walls shaking while Vyshena slowly turned her head to his direction. He stared at her, his chest heaving and eyes flickered dangerously up and down her body. She needed to calm down, she was playing a dangerous game with herself and her safety.
Xaden took a step toward her, and she took a step back. Exchanging directions until she was against the wall. He towered over her, trapping her against the wall and his beating chest. Xaden waited for her to do something, but she kept her arms at her sides. Another second, a second too long and Xaden leaned forward and Vyshena stood on her toes. Wrapping her arms around his shoulders, he lifted his back as he held under her thigh to lift her, and she wrapped her legs around his waist.
It was dangerous. Xaden's hand coming to hold the base of her neck, she pulled away from the kiss as he held her there. She wrapped her legs tighter, feeling his hand squeeze around her throat. Her hair was pulled from the braid, and she stared Xaden in his eyes as she felt it becoming hard to breathe. "Get it over with." Vyshena spat at him, and he ripped his hand from her neck. Grabbing the neckline of her shirt and ripped it straight down the middle.
Vyshena dropped to her feet, Xaden unbuckling her pants and sliding them down her legs. He pulled at the back of her thighs and she was quick to straddle his shoulders as he stood up. His hand holding her back while flying her to the mattress and diving down. "You want me to kill you?" He asked, kissing her inner thighs gently and Vyshena wanted to moan. "Better than you fucking her." She hissed and he came up quickly, his hand gripping her face as he stared at her.
"I've put up with just enough of this bullshit, Vyshena." He said, snapping his hand away while he pulled his shirt up and over his head. Vyshena kept her hands to hers, open in front of him. He leaned down, holding his left hand on the mattress beside her head while he slowly pushed his fingers inside of her and bent down, forehead to hers, he curled his fingers and her mouth dropped open in a silent gasp. "You haven't put up with anything." She answered, tucking her bottom lip between her teeth as his fingers stopped inside of her and her eyes rolled to the back of her head.
He sat up, grabbing her arm and turning so he was sat on the bed. She was in front of him on her knees, her hands at her sides, and he pulled her hair into a makeshift pony tail. Tugging the hilt as her neck snapped back and her eyes followed. Staring at the ceiling as he leaned over her, gently kissing her lips as she allowed her eyes to shut and she forced the belt of his pants to break, and she was unzipping them, then pulling from the kiss and ducking under his chest. Her hands were so cold compared to the rest of her body, mouth so wet. He hummed, eyes rolling to the back of his head as his hand guided with Vyshena's head, keeping her hair out of her face.
"I fucking hate you." Xaden seethed, his hips bucking while Vyshena looked up at him with her purple eyes and released him with a 'pop' of her plump lips. "You love me. You can't get enough of me." She answered, standing up and pushing at his chest while straddling him. "Show me how much. Show me how much you hate me, loathe me." Vyshena pried, eyes squinting as she dared him. Xaden sat up, holding one of his hands on her hip and the other bracing his body weight.
He gently rose her, aligning himself as he stared at her before forcing himself inside.
Vyshena had a small smile on her face as he stretched her out, "fuck," she cursed, throwing her head back when he pushed her hips down further and sat on the edge of his bed. He dropped her legs around his waist, bent at the knee and she wrapped her arms around his neck. Gently rocking her hips in a movement that had Xaden bruising Vyshena's hips with his fingers.
He stood up quickly and her back hit the wall hard, she was at Xaden's chest in this position. Her legs wrapped around his waist, him holding under her thighs. Her neck bent awkwardly forward so she could see him slide in and out of her. "God, fucking, damn it." She purred, and Xaden reached for one of her arms to straighten her back. Pulling her up, and taking a step forward he pushed everything he had inside of her in one swift movement and Vyshena's toes curled and a growl came from her lips.
He rocked his hips, grinding into her while a cry left her mouth. "That's right, baby. Let it out." He hummed, bracing her back and sitting her on the desk in his room. The walls started to sweat from the heat emitting from her body and Xaden's skin grew slick. He grabbed her face again into a heavy kiss, the desk scratching against the floor with every thrust.
Mid kiss, she pulled her legs to her chest and pushed at his. He broke away quickly, leaving Vyshena breathing heavy on the desk, legs spread as he stared at her in question of why she stopped.
She blinked slowly, "you don't have a right." She said, shaking her head slowly as his eyes fell shut and shoulders slumped forward. "Please, Vyshena." He pleaded, begged. And she stayed quiet, "you are all I ever want." He threw a hand toward her and smiled. "Everything I have ever wanted." He didn't care he stood in front of her naked, didn't care if he cried in front of her.
"You hurt me, more than anyone in this world." She said, pushing herself up and allowing her legs to fall off the side. "Anyone, in this world." She said again, pointing at his chest and he took a step forward. He held both of his hands gently to the sides of her burning face, leaning his forehead against hers. "No," she said, standing from the desk and walking for her ripped shirt, wondering how she would make it back to her dorm.
She slid her pants back on, and Xaden walked to her. At an arms distance, he held one of his shirts out while she grabbed it and slipped it over.
"What can I do for you to trust me again?" He asked as she went to leave. "You're still keeping secrets from me, I can sense it. The guilt you have every time we speak is not the guilt of two lost lovers. It's from keeping something." Xaden walked over to her and held the sides of her face in his hands again, staring straight into her golden eyes that hadn't changed back since he told her to let go.
"Brennen Sorrengail is alive and living at Alithia with Eon and Fyda. They know of the venin and wyvern. We're working with fliers, giving them the weapons they need to take them down because I can not yet." Vyshena sucked in a sharp gasp, staring in Xaden's eyes. "Brennen Sorrengail is alive? What are they doing with him."
"We're getting revenge, Vyshena."