Succubus Soul: Veras Academy by Lina Jubilee

Author:Lina Jubilee [Jubilee, Lina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Caleo Press
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

The quiet repetitive beep of monitors above my head was the first thing to register as I strained to open my heavy eyelids.

“Her eyes are moving,” said a familiar voice. Rajani. “Should we get Professor Wade?”

“Not yet,” said another familiar voice. One that made me freeze on this cushioned slab on which I found myself. Derek. “He said he’d be back to check on her, but his kid is sick and his husband is at work. He said Bry just needed to rest. We can get Jayden if need be.”

I almost didn’t want to open my eyes, but I didn’t think I could outlast them until they left. I could practically feel them leaning over me with bated breath.

“Hey,” I said to Rajani, who was leaning over me. Derek sat a few feet back in a chair, an open old-fashioned book on his lap, even though the overhead lights were rather dim. He pushed up his glasses and looked back at his book pointedly.

“How are you feeling?” asked Rajani.

“Sore,” I said, sitting up and cradling my head. It throbbed with the echo of a headache. “But okay.”

Rajani sat beside me on one of Professor Wade’s infirmary beds and gave me a side hug. “You’ve been out for hours. It’s… What time is it?” she asked Derek.

At least he was talking to her. “Three in the morning. You just missed your parents—well, some of them. We sent them on their way. They’ve got their hands full tracking down that fugitive.”

Right. Xerxes, the Nelian held in Earth custody, had escaped, and here I was off having wild dates with princes. My chest tightened.

“They’re sleeping in shifts,” added Rajani. “But I should go tell someone you’re up…” She got to her feet and patted my hand. “Maybe you should just spend the rest of the night here, just in case.” She beamed. “We all still got extra credit, but you got, like, all the extra credit possible. You saved those ungrateful dimwits.”

I chuckled dryly. “I would have done it for anyone.”

“Well, anyone else would at least have been grateful about it.” Rajani tossed her hair over her shoulder in her best impression of Hazel. “‘I bet she thinks she’s even more special now, doesn’t she?’ Derek had to literally hold me back from socking her.”

Derek coughed into his fist at that and Rajani looked between him and me. “Right…” she said. “So, why don’t you two have a chat? I’ll, uh, well, I can wait a few hours to check in with your parents if you want.”

“Why would—?” I said at the same time Derek said, “What are you implying?”

We both stared at each other and then went silent. I bit my lip.

Rajani patted my shoulder and whispered, “Whatever’s going on between you two needs to end now. He was worried sick about you, you know.”

I should hope so, even if he did think I was promiscuous.

Neither of us spoke to one another after Rajani left, the beep, beep, beep of a nearby machine the only thing filling the silence.

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