Gemini Kings: A Dark Witch Academy Paranormal Romance by Laura Navarre

Author:Laura Navarre [Navarre, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ascendant Press
Published: 2023-02-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Zara

“Cheese on toast! Are you fucking shitting me?”

I’m sitting on the kitchen counter, still wearing my uniform, with my stockinged legs swinging while Vasili shucks oysters for the big pot of bouillabaisse Ronin’s whipping up for the domus dinner. The yeasty smell of baking bread wafts from the oven, and my tummy’s definitely ready to rumble.

Now, in my total fucking shock over the news grenade my Goblin King just casually lobbed, I almost fall off the counter. “You mean to tell me that dragon actually kissed you? And you fucking slapped him for it? Shit, Vasili.”

Of course, the fact that we all figured Maxim was mostly straight, and majorly homophobic to boot, has been one of the primary obstacles (but definitely not the only one) to him joining our polycule.

Not to mention one of the primary obstacles to me, you know, rising.

If my dragon—I mean, the dragon—is going to go around kissing my warlocks now, that puts him in a whole new category of possibility.

Which begs the obvious question.

Even though I pretty much know the answer.

I swing my feet and ask anyway. “So, uh, why’d you slap him?”

“You’d do better to ask him why he kissed me,” Vasili says, wielding his knife to pry open an oyster with a ruthlessness that would make any crustacean’s blood run cold. “That wretched worm was mocking me and I won’t stand for it. He fondly imagined he could torment me as he pleased and that I’d be helpless to retaliate due to Lucius’ charming ultimatum. I merely disabused him of the notion. Somewhat violently.”

“Well, I hope you didn’t overreact.” Because Vasili’s no joke when he’s violent, and that dragon’s seen enough violence in his life. My own face is already stinging in sympathy. “Did he slap you back? Because he’d be entitled under the terms of that promise he made to Lucius. Since you swung first.”

“He kissed first.” Vasili shucks a fresh oyster with an extra-vicious twist. Which totally leaves me wondering if Vasili kissed back. My snake is a goddamn sphinx when he wants to be, and I can’t read him at all right now. He’s being very cryptic. “The inciting offense was sufficient, believe me. He completely demolished my lip gloss.”

“Real kiss then, huh?” I probe.

“Hmmm.” His mascara-coated lashes effectively screen his eyes as he assaults another oyster. I think the critters are still alive and cringing in that briny bucket he’s pulling them from (even though they’re not, like, sentient), and this has to be a traumatic way to go.

Death by Goblin King.

“And after you hit him, he didn’t swing back?” I nudge a little more. I’m getting more and more interested in this whole fascinating kiss. The more evasive Vasili gets, the more determined I am to tease the whole truth out of his dark and snaky heart.

Vasili doesn’t even hum this time. Which I’m taking as a no. Maxim took the hit and didn’t hit back.

Ronin and I exchange a meaningful look.

“What makes you fancy he was

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