Rare Form: Descended of Dragons, Book 1 by Crane Jen

Author:Crane, Jen [Crane, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carpe Noctem Publishing LLC
Published: 2015-10-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 18

It was my sixth meeting with Gresham. We met twice a week—on Monday nights, while the Metamorphosis class was still fresh, and again on Thursday afternoons. I’d proved successful in reining myself in and not climbing his tall ass like a tree. The thought crossed my mind once. Okay, twice. Hell, at every meeting—the important part was that I refrained.

He remained professional, and while he was often cranky, he did have rare moments of pleasant and sometimes even approached cheerful. I never knew which Gresham I would encounter, but since I couldn’t change who I was anyway, I usually chatted away merrily as he shared his insight on how to release my form.

“Dammit, Stella!” Gresham roared behind me. I jerked clumsily away, scrabbling for purchase of a nearby bench. We’d been practicing outside, the weather fair and his back yard lovely. I searched his face, thinking I had elbowed him in the nose or stepped on his toe—hurt him somehow. But, no. He was frustrated with me. For the first time, to my knowledge. He’d been patient, and I thought we’d been making real progress.

“What the hell, Gresham?” My voice came out in a higher pitch than I’d intended.

“Focus, Stella.” he said, rounding on me with clenched fists. “Do you think this is a game? You act as if this is all cotton candy and rainbows and that you have all the time in the world to prepare for what’s coming. If you aren’t committed to this, stop wasting my time. I certainly have more important things to do than play tutor to a silly little girl. If you’d pull your head out of that tight little ass for one moment you’d realize this is important. The sooner you discover your form, the sooner you can learn to control it. And when you can control it, you can use it to protect yourself.”

O-kaaaaay. I guessed we were bypassing cranky and going straight on through to deranged and conspiratorial.

But to insinuate I wasn’t serious, that I was being lazy, was going too far. I was infuriated. And, ‘silly little girl’? Well, that was just mean.

“First of all,” I said, stepping into his personal space with fists clenched at my waist so tightly my nails dug into my palms. “I have no idea what you’re talking about. What do I need to protect myself from? And what’s the hurry? You said we could go at my own pace. Why this shit fit now? And furthermore, I am committed! While my friends are out having fun, you know where I am? In my room, spending all my time reading, studying everything I can get my hands on to catch up to what they learned at home. I may’ve had a disadvantage when I came here, but I’m so far ahead in most of my classes that I could teach them.”

He rolled fierce honeyed eyes at me, an action which made them far less attractive, though the pull of his angry mouth and the sharp lines of his gaze did scream ‘dangerously sexy’.

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