Scorpio Dragon: Billionaire Dragon Shifter Romance (Zodiac Dragons Book 4) by Kayla Wolf

Author:Kayla Wolf [Wolf, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-07T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 16 - Archer

So much for a mid-semester break, Archer thought as he dragged himself down the empty hallways of the abandoned university. These had been the hardest two weeks of his whole stupid life. He was never going to take rest for granted again for as long as he lived. It felt deeply wrong that he was looking forward to the start of term for the reduction in workload that it would represent. The Dean had warned him that he’d need to work hard to make up for the shortfall, but he’d profoundly underestimated what that was actually going to mean. The packet of work each teacher had left was, on its own, more than enough to fill two weeks. And he had to work his way through three of them.

The one bright spot in all of this darkness, which was hardly a bright spot at all, was that he was far too busy to give much thought to how badly he’d embarrassed himself on the last night of term. At least during the days he was, anyway. Those thoughts came creeping back to him at night, once he’d shoveled some food into his face and fallen into bed exhausted. Tired as he always was, his wretched mind still managed to find a little bit of spare energy to torture him with blurry drunken recollections in the few minutes it took him to fall asleep…

He’d never lost control like that in his long, long years of drinking. There was a knack to pacing yourself, and Archer considered himself a master of it. But all of that mastery had gone out the window that night. He’d started drinking the minute he’d gotten back from his grim meeting with the Dean, and if Brody and Zack had wondered why he wasn’t packing his stuff like everyone else, they’d known better than to ask him about it.

Once he was drunk enough, he’d thrown himself single-mindedly into making sure the end-of-term party would be one for the history books. By the time the guests had arrived, he’d been absolutely obliterated… his memories got properly patchy around sunset, with huge missing chunks he could only piece together in context. He must have gone swimming at some point, because at some point in the night he’d realized he was soaked through. And he’d spent plenty of time on the dance floor. Aside from that, much of the night was missing…

But the real cruelty wasn’t in what he’d forgotten. It was in the part that he remembered with absolute clarity… a clarity he hadn’t experienced while it was happening, of course. Morgan, coming down the beach to find him, her cool, steady presence absolutely impervious to his pathetic attempts to insult her. Why had he been so determined to drive her away? Why couldn’t he have just accepted the help she was trying to give him? He’d wanted to, so badly… and then the guys had turned up, and he’d frozen, unable to figure out how to tell them to get lost.

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