Vikingrune Academy 2: The Serpent's Shadow by KC Kingmaker

Author:KC Kingmaker [Kingmaker, KC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KC Kingmaker
Published: 2024-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Ravinica

WE WOULD NEED HELP. Two initiates did not a rebellion make.

But it was a start. A spark.

Before leaving, I asked, “Do you plan on making the last class of the afternoon, now that you’re, uh, feeling better?”

I gave his nude, tattooed, studded body a once-over, lips wryly curling.

“Stealth & Interrogation with Hersir Kelvar?” He scoffed and shook his head. “I’m sure I’ll be seeing more of him soon enough. I’ll continue resting.”

My smirk vanished, frowning. “Why? Is he in charge of the . . . what do you even call it when they steal your blood?”

“I call it leeching.”

“Sounds apropos.”

“I’m sure he has a hand in it. He’s the Whisperer, the academy’s spy master, after all.”

“You don’t sound certain though.”

He shrugged, sitting up in bed with the covers lazily draped over his lap and thighs. It made my mouth water.

“I’m not,” he said. “When I show up at Fort Woden, they put a hood over my head before walking me to the laboratory. The acolytes and doctors are also masked.”

I palmed my forehead, incredulous. “Loki’s shadowy taint, Magnus. That’s despicable. I’m so sorry.”

He put a hand up. “I’ll be fine, lass. It won’t last forever.”

You sure about that? I wasn’t. Magnus didn’t strike me as a glass-half-full kind of guy.

I didn’t want to keep prodding him about it—the leeching must have been a horrible source of trauma. During our talk of revolution, we’d brought up a way to circumvent his every-other-day meetings with the doctors, or even use it to our advantage.

Magnus had an inside track to Fort Woden, the most impregnable, secretive building in this whole academy. If he could figure a way to escape his bindings after being leeched and snoop around . . .

He cleared his throat and brought my attention to the swirling runic tattoo that surrounded his Adam’s apple. “How about you, silvermoon? Plan on attending the class?”

I bit my lip. Looked at his unnervingly sexy body again, only clad in that flimsy blanket. The corded muscles of his thighs were calling to me, tattooed, bulging, slightly parted.

Magnus Feldraug knew exactly what he was doing.

I shrugged. “I’ve already missed a month of classes. What’s one more day?”

“What would you rather do instead?”

I paused for a second, standing at the edge of the bed. Then I jumped on him, flinging the blanket off so I could press my body against his.

We both laughed as we buried ourselves into the bed and became a tangle of limbs.

“Gods,” I drawled with a sigh after pulling my lips off his. “There’s no way I can kill you.”

“Wait—what?”

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