As Wicked As They Come by Emma Dean

Author:Emma Dean [Dean, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-01-30T06:00:00+00:00

21

Mika cleared the dishes from Ethan’s worktable in the conservatory, placing them in a basket she would take by the kitchens on her way to Oleander House later.

Corbin was out again, searching for any sign of Aine, rooting out old contacts and calling on as many favors as he could. Kenzie and Jess had promised to do the same.

“Do you think we’ll find Aine?” Mika asked, sitting back down beside Ethan at his worktable.

“I do,” Ethan reassured. “Come here.”

Mika let him wrap an arm around her. Sighing, she rested her head on his shoulder and studied one of his pink flowers she really liked. It wasn’t a normal pink, but neon pink. It almost glowed in the dark.

She still couldn’t believe they’d given him an entire room in the conservatory to run his experiments and projects. The Director of the Herbology department must really believe in his alternate uses for plants.

Ethan wasn’t just discovering new ways to use plants though, he was making hybrids for specific uses, creating entirely new healing herbs and plants with power.

It was quiet now that Lucien had left, and Mika already missed the way the fox always seemed to fill up a room with his energy. But he had to go to bed early. His first class was at six in the morning. Mika hoped he could get in a few hours of sleep before he had to go to class.

These nightly dinners were amazing though. Mika loved spending this time with Lucien and Ethan every day again. She loved the quiet, easy way they could talk about anything, or nothing at all. They never tried to push her into the conversation, and yet they never left her out.

There were nights she just listened to them chatter about their classes, whatever thing they’d done together over the summer, how they missed training with Corbin every day, and their speculations on Malachi.

She smiled slightly.

Sometimes Corbin joined them, sometimes he was busy working with Armad. Her raven was never far, and Corbin insisted on doing whatever he could since he was the only one without classes.

Not that Mika really had any left. She’d quietly dropped everything but her hunting classes. The ones on hell were woefully inadequate.

All the extra time she had she used to work on her blood magic in the Morrigan’s temple. She also trained with the battle magic books and used her magic as much as she could.

It kept the itch at bay just as Jessica had promised.

But there was another itch under her skin, and Mika was starting to realize it had nothing to do with her plans, or the future.

It had everything to do with the witch sitting beside her, humming slightly as he tapped his newest poison onto a slide. It had to do with the fox who liked to tease her at every opportunity, poking her in the ribs during their sparring matches, remarking on how slow she was when she trained with Malachi, and every time Malachi took off his shirt Lucien was there to mention it.

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