Chapter 102: Shower thoughts
Andria’s POV
"Alpha Zade of the Silvernight pack is your mate too?, You must be the moon goddess’s favorite," Michaela blurted out.
I blushed hard and then quickly hid my face.
"You don’t have to hide your face; we already saw the pink on your face," Liara teased.
"You bitch, you finally got me talking instead of reading," I shouted, grabbing the throw pillow on the sofa and tossing it at her.
"Didn’t you feel relief after that outpour? See, you smiled for the first time today; It means that I did a good job," Liara managed to muffle the words from underneath the pile of throw pillows I loaded on her.
"But it wasn’t Liara that got you talking; I was the one, and I’m still the one who made you blush," Liara cut in.
"That’s to say you deserve some beating too," I replied to her, and soon we were tossing pillows at each other and laughing out of our hearts.
"Let’s be serious now, it’s time to read, we have played and talked enough," I screamed, ending the pillow fight, and everyone regained their reading position in front of the center table.
"We will be doing a question and answer session after one hour of reading, so prepare yourselves," I stated and looked back at my books.
Liara smiled, but Michaela looked displeased; she had no other option but to go back to her books.
We were reading different subjects, which was good because we get to read three subjects tonight through the question and answer session.
Thirty minutes into the reading, Michaela dozed off, her mouth slightly open so that I could pass a pen through it. I could wake her up that way.
’What if I put my pen in her mouth?" Liara said, echoing my thoughts.
We burst out laughing, and she stirred in her sleep, then slowly opened her eyes to catch us staring at her.
"Is it one hour already?" she asked, with an embarrassed expression on her face.
"It’s forty minutes, but you slept off, probably ten minutes ago," Liara explained, twirling her pen in her hands.
"Seems like you have forgotten that we would be having a question and answer session?" I asked her, eyeing her playfully.
She shot me a playful glare, hissed and went back to reading.
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I woke up with a start, staring all around me.
We had ended up dozing off in the living room while watching a fashion show after our reading session and question-and-answer sessions.
I didn’t bother to tap any of them, because they were fast asleep and it was still too early. I strode to the room which was now my century, walked into the bathroom and had a hot morning shower.
The water running through my body felt very relaxing, and somehow my mind wandered to Aven, Tristan, Damon and Kaelric.
I could imagine them almost vividly standing in the shower with me. ’Why was I having dirty thoughts about them?’ I asked myself.
"Because it’s only normal to think of our mates in that manner, besides, I’m happy that you are finally wanting them the way I have always wanted them," Athena growled excitedly.
"You know that you are a silly whore of a wolf," I teased her.
"We are the same, you are a whore too, hiding behind your numerous walls, that was why the moon goddess decided to give us many mates," Athena teased me back.
My mind wandered again as I caressed the soap lather all over my body. I imagined Aven’s hand replacing mine while Kaelric’s breath was fanning my ear.
Soon, my body was on fire, heat flowed through me, I was drenched, and I let my desire consume me.
"I hope you aren’t trying to touch yourself to the thought of them with you in the bathroom, shameless Aria," Athena teased, drawing me back to my senses.
"You are, in fact, a worse whore. You want to satisfy yourself alone, what about me? I want to feel their wolves, too. So stop being selfish," Athena growled.
"I don’t think the Alpha successors would want to ever speak with me," I said to her.
"Because you constantly make them feel like you don’t want them," Athena scolded me, her voice laced with so much anger.
"I’m not sure they would want me after they found out that I don’t know my rank or where I actually belonged, that I had to forge my identity to get into this academy to run away from my foster home that had been treating me like trash for years now," I replied to her.
"I know how you feel, but you don’t have to keep rejecting them forever. They are your mates, and they seem to love you already. You will need them to get revenge against your foster family.
So don’t think about their rejection if they find out about your insecurities; the moon goddess has reasons for making them your mate,’ Athena finished and was silent again.
Her voice felt like a quiet self-reflection that I always needed. "Thank you, Athena, the warrior wolf," I muttered under my breath.
"I got you, always Ari," she replied.
I was already done with my bath when I realized I had spent a lot of time in the shower. The day was already getting bright, and I could hear Liara and Michaela’s movement outside the door.
They have finally woken up. I quickly got dressed and walked out of the room, swinging my backpack on my back.
"Ari, when we woke up and didn’t see you beside us, we thought you had gone back to your apartment, maybe you left something there you wanted to pick up before heading to school today," Michaela said.
"And I didn’t even bother to check the room she is becoming fond of. My bad," Liara blurted.
They were already dressed for school, which stunned me.
"You are already dressed for school. I must have spent a decade in that room," I stated, astonished.
"You actually took a great time in the room. I wonder what always takes up your time whenever you get into that room. Maybe when we get back from school today, I’ll run a thorough room check," Liara teased.
"We? Liara, you have to let me go back to my apartment to get my stuff. Maybe you could run the room check without me," I replied to her.
"Make sure to come back," Liara said as she closed the door to the apartment behind us.