Magic and Misconduct: Sleep Hollow Academy - Book 1

by Zenia, Zara

  I was yawning every few minutes by the time we got back to campus, and only just avoided falling asleep in the back of the car, as much as the thought of one of them carrying me to bed was appealing.

  “I had a great night,” I said, turning away when I yawned again. “Thanks for asking me.”

  “Let us know when you know,” Daniel said. “We had a great night too.”

  Vlad gave me a kiss on the cheek and then I hopped out of the car and made my way back to my room.

  Back in my room, Laurie was sleeping soundly, which was almost a relief. I wanted some time to think things over myself before I talked it out with her. I already knew what she would say, anyway.

  At least my plan was to lay for a while and think it through. Instead I fell asleep almost immediately.

  Colin was beside me, propped up on one elbow, his body hidden beneath the bed sheets. His hand was on my hip, and his mouth parted slightly. My heart hammered in my chest. “Colin,” I said, and my word was a breathy moan.

  He was here, in my bed. This was where I’d wanted him for weeks now. He leaned down and I thought he was going to kiss my mouth, but at the last minute diverted to my neck. He left open-mouthed kisses against my skin and I writhed in pleasure, opening my legs and realizing for the first time that I was completely naked.

  His hand was on my hip, so close yet so far from exactly where I wanted it. I whined, not able to voice my pleas through my desire.

  Colin lifted his head and looked at me with his bright eyes. “What’s wrong?” he asked, teasing. His fingers traced the skin of my stomach, making me shiver.

  “I want you to touch me.”

  “I am touching you.”

  His fingers made their way up my body and to my breasts, where he circled each nipple with his finger without touching them.

  I moaned, back arching. “More,” I begged.

  And then I realized that I could touch him too. It was as if a lightbulb had lit up. With nervous movements, I reached out and brushed fingers against his chest. He was slender but muscled, with pale tempting skin that felt incredible beneath my fingers.

  I moved my hand down. If he wasn’t going to touch me where I wanted, then I would touch him where he wanted until he was too turned on to keep teasing me so mercilessly.

  My hand barely touched his cock, but he gasped at the contact anyway. Nervousness pooled in my stomach for a second, but I ignored it, wrapping my hand around his shaft and pumping it slowly. He groaned, burying his head in my neck and stilling for a second as he got absorbed all the pleasure I was giving him.

  Then he kissed my neck again, his hands finally doing what I was desperate for. He rolled my nipples between thumb and forefinger, pinching just slightly and making me writhe in pleasure. I knew how he felt now. It was hard to remember to keep moving my hand when my body was being assaulted by this much desire.

  He moved down so he was running fingers over my slick entrance and I moaned loudly as they barely dipped inside my entrance. Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew I was in my own room, and wondered where Laurie was. Shouldn’t she have been there, telling me to be quiet?

  Then Colin’s thumb found my clit and I didn’t care anymore.

  My eyes closed and I spread my legs wider, giving him as much access as I could. I’d thought it might hurt, having fingers inside me, but all I felt was overwhelming pleasure.

  And Colin felt it too, as I moved my hand up and down his length. He was breathing heavily against my neck. “Fuck, that feels amazing,” he said.

  My back arched and I felt my orgasm coming. I’d made myself come a few times, but I already knew this was different. It was more intense, more all-consuming that normal. It built instead of rushing on me.

  “I’m so close,” I panted. “Don’t stop doing that. Please don’t stop doing that.”

  He didn’t stop, and I quivered as the climax hit me with an unbelievable rush. I didn’t even realize that Colin had come too until I came down from the high and felt the stickiness on my hand.

  “Fuck,” I said, leaning back against the pillow and breathing heavily. “That was incredible.”

  Colin cleaned the bed and my hand. “You’re incredible.” He pressed a kiss to each of my cheeks, and then my lips. “I’m just going to use the bathroom.”

  I ran my hands through my hair when he vanished, trying to calm my heart. That was what I’d been wanting. That was what I needed.

  It wasn’t enough, though.

  The bathroom door opened, but instead of the long red hair and Fae ears of Colin, it was the tanned, muscled Vlad that stepped out of the room and into mine.

  Instinctively I went to cover my bare chest with my hands, but Vlad didn’t say anything. He pulled his black shirt over his head, revealing a six pack and ridiculous arms. Then he stepped out of his pants and boxers too. A hard, thick shaft stood to attention against his stomach.

  I swallowed thickly.

  “Hi.” My voice sounded lower and breathier than normal.

  Vlad climbed into bed beside me. “Hi,” he said, accented voice deep and inviting. A shiver ran down my spine and heat pooled between my legs.

  I reached out and touched him, unable to believe that I was making the first move this way but unable to resist the urge to touch him, either. He was firm and hot beneath my fingers.

  “You’re so warm,” I said.

  Vlad grinned, revealing white teeth. “I’m a dragon. I’m always warm.”

  He ran a hand down my body and cupped my sex. There was no teasing from him. “You’re hot too.”

  “I’m always hot when I’m with you.”

  Vlad pressed lips to my neck, finger teasing my entrance but barely dipping inside. He made quick progress down my body, throwing over the comforter so that he could lay on top of me. His shaft brushed against my thigh and the largeness of it made me ache with anticipation.

  He sucked my nipples. I writhed and laced my fingers through his hair, tangling them in his thick dark curls.

  I expected him to stop at my breasts, to move back up and kiss my lips, but he kept moving downward. Some instinct made me tug on his hair and make him look at me. “You don’t have to—”

  “I want to taste you.”

  He buried his head between my legs and his tongue flattened against my clit. I jerked with the sudden, intense pleasure that it caused. My eyes screwed shut and I could barely take just how good it felt to have his tongue flick against my clit.

  Colin had been in bed with me just minutes ago, but now Vlad was here making me feel just as incredible. It felt right. It felt perfect.

  And then my climax hit, and it felt better than anything in the world. I cried out his name, clamping my legs around his head and lifting my hips off the bed as euphoria exploded through me.

  “Fuck,” I breathed, releasing his head and turning to jelly against the bed. “Fuck that was amazing.” I tried to make myself sit up, ready to give him the same treatment, to wrap my lips around his shaft until he was writhing and begging too.

  But he pushed a hand against my shoulder and kept me down. “You’re gorgeous.”

  I flushed under the praise, surprised at how little embarrassment I felt being naked around him. “You’re gorgeous, too. I want to taste you, too.”

  Vlad tucked hair behind my ears and ran his fingers over my neck. “I think you’d rather taste someone else.”

  “No, I—”

  “I know someone who wants to taste you too. I should go.”

  “I don’t want you to go.” I laced my fingers through his and squeezed his hand.

  He grinned at me again. “Don’t you want to see Daniel?”

  A blaze of heat settled in my stomach. “Daniel’s here?”

  “Yes.”

  “I want to satisfy you.”

  “Making you come is the most satisfying thing I’m ever going to do.”

  He extracted himself from the bed and started getting dressed. Then he was leaving the dorm room and l
eaving the door ajar. Daniel appeared in the doorway moments later.

  The vampire was already shirtless. His blonde hair was unruly, like he’d walked here in the wind. I swallowed as he came forward.

  Daniel was really okay with this? With walking straight in after his friend, knowing what had just happened.

  He grinned, revealing the white fangs he never made any effort to hide, and my stomach flipped.

  “Hi,” he said.

  I breathed deeply. “Hi.”

  He shut the door behind him and came to lay in bed with me. With one hand he pushed me back into the bed and hovered over me, propped up on one elbow. I hadn’t expected Daniel to be forceful like that, and it had already made me wet.

  I ran fingers over his chest. His body was just as toned and athletic as it had always looked under his clothes.

  “I’ve been wanting to touch you for weeks,” he said, running fingers up my arms and then down my stomach, tracing the valley between my breasts.

  “Me too.” My hand moved far enough south that it met his pants, and I started pulling at his belt. Daniel interrupted me, taking my hand and pinning it beside my hand, and then kissing me deeply.

  I made a noise at the back of my throat as he kissed me, arching my back so my breasts pushed against his chest. I needed something, even if he wasn’t going to let me touch him. His tongue ran over my lip and I opened my mouth, breathless with desire.

  I spread my legs wide, no longer nervous at all about showing exactly what I wanted. Daniel did what I’d suggested and used his free hand to slide two fingers inside me. I would have returned the favor, but he didn’t give me the option, pinning my hand to the pillow as he curled his fingers and made me whimper.

  “I want you,” I moaned. “I want you, Daniel.”

  “You want me to what?” he murmured against my skin, lips barely touching my neck. The hot breath made me shiver. His fang grazed my skin just a little and my heart rate increased again. I knew he wouldn’t bite me, knew that it was one of the biggest taboos, but the possibility made my heart skip if only for a second. There was something intensely erotic about the possibility.

  “I want you to fuck me,” I said, surprised at my own words. It had come out of nowhere, but I desperately wanted it. I wanted him inside me, to feel as close to him as it was possible to close to feel with someone.

  He grinned again, fangs brushing my neck, and then pulled back to take his pants off. He shimmied them down his legs and threw them on the floor.

  Then he was between my legs, shaft in hand and fingering me with the other to make sure I was ready.

  I wasn’t sure I was ready, but my body definitely was. It was hot and aching and just looking at his dick made me want to beg again. A small voice in the back of my head told me there was no way it was going to fit, but I’d never been so turned on in my life. It had to.

  He rested a hand on my hip and guided himself toward me. I gasped when I felt his tip pushing into me. My ears rang. I didn’t know why I’d been so scared. There was no pain. It was all unbelievable pleasure.

  The ringing in my ears got louder and louder as he moved slowly into me, making sure he didn’t hurt me. His face was pure control and part of me wanted him to give in, to fuck me wildly as he obviously wanted to.

  I pressed my hands against my ears, wishing the noise would stop.

  Then everything went black. When I opened my eyes, I was still in my dorm, but there was no naked Daniel above me, and I was wrapped in long-sleeved pajamas.

  I groaned loudly and turned my alarm clock off. “God dammit,” I muttered. My body was still hot with desire and for half a second I considered moving my own hand between my thighs. But Laurie was there, and the alarm had woken her up too.

  “Morning!” she said.

  “Morning,” I replied, head falling back against the pillow.

  “You sound miserable.”

  “Dream I didn’t want to wake up from.”

  That was probably the best dream I’d ever had in my life. All three of them, doing things to me that I’d only imagined happening. It had all felt so right, so good.

  And it was possible, wasn’t it? Daniel and Vlad had said it was. That was what they wanted. And they’d wanted it to be casual. There was no reason I couldn’t give it a shot. I could just go for it and see how it went.

  And Colin… Colin I could talk to. He might have been jealous about Daniel at the party, but we’d not made a move to become official or exclusive. We were still just seeing each other. I was allowed to date other people.

  That was the decision made, then. I’d date Colin and Vlad and Daniel and see how it went.

  If it went poorly, I’d have learned a lesson.

  If it went well, I might get to feel as intensely good as I had in the dream I’d just woken up from.

  13

  Marina

  Time passed alarmingly quickly over the next couple of weeks. Between keeping up with schoolwork and dating three men, I had barely any free time.

  Not that I’d have done it any other way.

  I’d had a great time with each of them. We’d gone out on walks, had coffee, gone to the movies again. At the end of the night, I’d kissed whoever I was out with and been reminded of the dream I’d had, and how incredible it had felt to have them in bed with me. But nothing had moved beyond that. There’d been no jealousy from Daniel or Vlad, and I wasn’t sure that Colin realized I was seeing either one of them. He’d never asked, and I’d never told.

  And I couldn’t wait to keep seeing them.

  It was a good job I’d done so much reading in preparation for this semester, because I knew that really, I was neglecting my schoolwork a little to spend my time with them. It was intoxicating being with them. Dating was something I’d never done before, and now I knew that I’d been missing out.

  Not that I thought that there was anyone even close to as perfect as Vlad, Colin and Daniel in Fort Ann.

  But, for a change, my number one interest lay in the college for the next week. Students from a rival school, Salem University. It was Sleepy Hollow’s main contender on the East Coast, and the rivalry between schools was fierce. At multiple points throughout the year competitions were held at each school so that the students could battle it out to try and be the best.

  As a first year my role in these competitions was somewhat limited. The main, most intense competition, and therefore what the most time was spent on, was between final year students. That didn’t mean I didn’t have a role, though, and I’d be competing once.

  Tonight was the start of the contest. There was a big party in the town for all the competitors from both schools. A chance to meet each other personally before the competing began.

  I was excited for it. I’d heard a lot about Salem University, I’d considered applying myself, but I’d like the culture of Sleepy Hollow more, and it was a lot closer to home for me. I couldn’t wait to meet some of the students and hear what it was actually like at the other college.

  Not that I was sure they would be honest to their rivals, but it would be fun to meet a whole new bunch of supernaturals either way.

  “Ready?” Laurie asked, checking her appearance in the mirror for the thousandth time.

  Brian was going to be at the party, and I got the feeling Laurie might be disappearing almost as soon as she got there to find somewhere private. They’d been unable to keep their hands off each other for a good month now.

  “Ready,” I agreed, shrugging on my coat. We were going to walk into town— it wasn’t far —but the weather had taken a rapid turn and fall was making Sleepy Hollow chilly and damp most days. It was good news for the vampires, Daniel had apologized to me for being so excited about the weather shift and shorter days, but I was starting to miss the sun a little.

  We trudged into town on the quickest route, and passed a few people as we went. It was going to be a huge party, being held in one of the local halls there that would fit everyone in.

  �
�So, are your men going to be there?” Laurie asked.

  “Daniel and Vlad are. Colin said he wasn’t sure. As an art student not interested in anything offensive he’s not so bothered about the contest, and he’s working on a new sculpture he’s absorbed with at the moment. I doubt he’ll be there.”

  Laurie had been thrilled by my revelation that I was dating both Vlad and Daniel now, and had joked that I should leave some men for the rest of them. Quickly followed up by the fact that she was completely satisfied with Brian at the moment. I got the feeling that Laurie had caught feelings without realizing it. Maybe she hadn’t even realized it herself. But sometimes she spent ages gushing about how amazing he was without any self-awareness. It was adorable to watch.

  “It might be awkward if Colin does come,” Laurie said.

  I rubbed the back of my neck, glad to see the light of Sleepy Hollow town appearing in the distance. “Yeah,” I agreed. “I know.”

  It had all been going smoothly so far, but the last time Daniel and Colin had been in a room together they’d spent the entire time throwing sarcastic backhanded compliments at each other. That was before I’d really been dating either of them. I didn’t want to know what might happen if I stood talking to Colin and Daniel kissed me the way he had the night before.

  The community center was lit up with a Welcome, Salem University banner and balloons and streamers. Inside, there were large tapestries with the crests of both schools and music playing loudly. People were dancing. There was a buffet and red Solo cups. It was a college-arranged event and so there was no alcohol.

  At least not officially. I didn’t doubt that there was plenty around and being drank subtly for now, but probably not for much longer.

  I looked around and saw some familiar faces, but they were acquaintances rather than friends.

  Laurie found who she was looking for immediately. She raised a hand to Brian, who’d been talking to Zap, and they both came over. I made small talk with Zap about his course and how his latest computer experiment was going, and Laurie and Brian excused themselves to go and find somewhere quiet— not that I was sure there were many hiding spaces in the community hall— to do whatever it was they were going to do.