by S. L. Morgan
“Hell yes. I’m not leaving you alone, especially with her.”
“Then, you’re going to have to be there when I talk to the asshole. So, let’s get some lunch, then we’ll meet with the school president.”
Dom and I showered, dressed, and he was at my dorm as I finished pulling my hair up into a bun. I opened the door, and his hungry eyes made my heart race.
“Can it wait until after lunch?” I chuckled.
Dom pulled me into his arms, and the next thing I knew, I was tasting his intoxicating kiss.
Screw it. Who needs to eat, anyway? This is as satisfying to my soul as eating pie.
Dom pulled away, laughing. “At least my kisses have reached a point to where she loves them as much as pie!” Dom snatched my hand. “Come on, let’s go meet Vannah and Ian in the lunchroom, tell them our plans, and also tell them we’re onto their little relationship they’re trying to hide from us,” he winked at me as we rushed through the halls.
“Sounds—”
I was cut short when we exited the building to see three men dressed in dark clothes, standing next to a strange looking car.
What the hell?
The president stepped in front of us and studied us both. “I had a feeling my intuitions were true about you two.” He looked at Dominic. “Your rude approach to me, your insults to my daughter, you leading Melanie on to believe that she was the one you loved.”
“That’s absolutely insane!” Dominic growled. “Is that what your kid told you? Even if she did, how could you possibly be okay with your seventeen-year-old daughter being in a relationship with a twenty-two-year-old man?”
“I know what’s right for my daughter. Number one is her happiness. This is most displeasing to find…you with this shifter.”
Shit! Shit! Shit!
The leprechaun school president was sending massive hate vibes directly at me.
“Um, we’ve been a couple for a while. She definitely knew that,” I interrupted.
“You owe him no explanation, Jen,” Dom seethed. “Why is one of my father’s cars here?”
“Because you are going home,” the president smiled. “You’re not going on tour with my daughter. I won’t have her heartbroken when she learns about this.”
“Going home? As in I’m free of this school?” Dom said, not once taking his eyes of the president.
“No. Mark Rossi and I have been in communication since you raged into my office and insulted me, my daughter, and this school to get your way and go against what I wanted to have happen with the shifters. Your attitude has changed drastically, and your father has requested you spend the summer with him.”
“I’m not going anywhere unless my mate is with me.”
“Oh, yes,” a familiar voice that made me want to barf said. “She’s coming to the Rossi Mansion too,” Dean Edgewater said, hopping up the steps to where we stood.
“What?” I swallowed hard, seeing his white, shark teeth that appeared in his creepy smile.
“I know, I know,” he held his hands up to Dom’s first reaction, then looked at the smiling school president. “I was honored when they all requested that I come back. Apparently, you losing it on the president like you did got me my old job back.”
“Fantastic,” Dom answered while I remained silent at his side. “Then I guess coming back for what will hopefully be my final year at this school will be thrilling.”
“You won’t be losing your titles,” the school president suddenly seemed to be kissing Dom’s butt.
“I wouldn’t care if I did or didn’t at this point,” Dom said, clenching my hand. “Get out of my way. If I have to head home to my father, I’d rather go now than later.”
“Hold up, kid,” Edgewater said. “Before we all take this exciting summer trip together, I want to say that I love how you two managed to stay together in my absence.”
“What do you care?” I asked the creepy dean. I couldn’t believe this joker was back. This is precisely how leprechauns screwed you, though. They didn’t go straight for the kill, they slow-played every move. They were big on the long game. This is why they felt like children of Satan, spawns from hell, and the trickiest SOBs in the universe.
“Because Mark Rossi can’t wait to meet the girl who has captured his son’s heart, the heir to his empire.”
“How would you know?”
“Jen,” Dom glanced over at me. “Let’s go. I’m sure you’ll love being with my mom and dad much more than being at this Godforsaken school.”
“And that’s exactly why both of you are leaving,” the president answered. “Yes, Ian? Sahvannah? Can we be of some assistance?”
“We were coming to get Dominic and Jenna,” Vannah stammered. Her eyes were nearly bulging out of her head because she and Ian had probably heard most of everything.
“Dean Edgewater?” Ian questioned.
“Back in black,” he tugged on his suit jacket. “Listen, you kids run along to your vacation. I’m personally escorting Dominic and Jenna to Mr. Mark Rossi’s house. Wish Dominic luck. He’s going to be introducing his new mate to his father on this trip.”
I sucked in a breath of air, lifted my chin, and walked with Dominic down to the sleek black car that waited right in front of our dorm rooms on the lawn. It was surrounded by men who seemed to be bodyguards. I looked over at Vannah and gave her a nod of reassurance. She knew I was progressing with my power. She knew everything Dom and I had been through up until now, so my best friend knew that we could handle a summer trip to the…Rossi Mansion?
Dom’s the heir to an empire? What empire?
“Oh, you haven’t told your true mate all there is to know about the Rossi family of House Braeclaw?” Edgewater asked Dom in response to my thoughts as he took a seat in the leather chairs facing our seats.
The car sped away without another word from the president, Vannah, or Ian. Now, here we were, a large vehicle pulling in front and one falling in line behind us, heading out of this academy and on our way—with Edgewater—to Dom’s family home.
I wasn’t even going there with the importance of who Dominic was or is. I was stupid to believe he’d be anything less than important, knowing how hardcore he was as a shifter in the first place. Where I was going and what I was going to have to do was stop thinking because Dom could only chatter on so much—being this pissed off—trying to cover-up my shocked thoughts about this unexpected change of events.
I inhaled deeply—the windows tinted so darkly that I couldn’t see outside of them—and I closed my eyes. I pulled my thoughts away from anything and everything that tried to enter them. Edgewater could read my mind, and we were stuck with the creep to watch our every move outside of the school.
Dom and I had this. We’d already been through hell and back, so there was nothing I wasn’t prepared for as long as we were together.
Afterword
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About the Author
S.L. Morgan is a fantasy romance author who enjoys telling stories to anyone who will listen.
Morgan loves coffee, her gorgeous home in the mountains just south of the majestic Yosemite National Park, and adores her children, husband, and laughing with friends and family.
Her greatest joy and gratitude is her relationship with God and gives him the glory for everything. She knows she wouldn’t be the person she is today without him in her life.
Also by S.L. Morgan
The Award winning Ancient Guardians Series:
Book One: The Legacy of the Key
Book Two: The Uninvited
Book Three: The Awakening
Book Four: The Reckoning
The Guardians novella: Twin Paradox
Follow Levi and Harrison on their first assignment as Guardians and enjoy their graduation ceremony. A fun, quick read while Harrison and Levi are deployed to Earth to enroll in High School and hunt down the mystery as to why students are disappearing.
A Christmas at Pasidian Palace:
A light holiday read.
When you’re forced to live in another, enchanting realm…it’s always a good thing when your new husband, the prince of Pemdas, is attentive to your needs.
Levi plans to give Reece a Christmas in his realm, a holiday that has never been celebrated in Pemdas before. What could go wrong?
The Dragon’s Curse Series:
It’s 13 years after The Reckoning has wrapped, and thanks to characters that have the ability to travel into the future and deliver stories to their author…we have the completed series of Alexander’s story.
Cursed: Alexander uses his time travel ability after being summoned into the future only to learn that his family is in dire need of his help.
A quick change of events has Alex thrown into another place and time where he meets another heir to the thrown—Kira—only they both didn’t realize she was a dragon shifter on top of the next heir to her own throne.
Marked: After Kira’s world is destroyed, she’s brought to Alexander’s world where a spark of romance is blossoming between the two. Never let your enemies find your weak spot, they just might use it against you.
Unfortunately, Kira and Alex learn the hard way and are marked eternally unless they convince the Guardian warriors to travel with them into the Land of the Fae, where the one individual that can lift their curse awaits them…but will they make it past all of the traps of the Fae and can they trust the one who says he can help.
Dragon’s Fire: In the final installment, answers to dark enemies are coming and the Guardians aren’t going to back down until they end this threat to their realm once and for all.
The Rift: Teenage prom for this pretentious teen isn’t all what it should be, especially after she dies and is taken into another reality…or is the other reality her true life?
The more she questions it, the more real it seems, until the Angel of Death makes his appearance.
Dark Water Academy: A short story that is part of the Midnight Academy box set until October before being released back to Pasidian Press with S.L. Morgan.
In this story you will learn a bit about Jenna’s past and answer questions to things in Immortal Academy where she is currently enrolled.
Immortal Academy: Year One
Immortal Academy: Year Two
Immortal Academy: Year Three