Out of the Shadows // Sebastian Sallow

Chapter Sixty-One

*Warning: This chapter contains use of dark magic.*

I awoke with a start. Sebastian was snoring loudly right in my ear. I think the sheer amount of alcohol he consumed last night had put him into a heavy sleep. His hot arms were wrapped around me possessively, making me sweaty.

I huffed out a sigh of frustration and tried to scoot my way out of his hold to breathe a little. Every movement of my body hurt. I was aching all over from his claiming me.

He didn't seem disturbed by my movements. He must have been deeply asleep.

I can't believe what we did last night! Well, what he had done to me last night. My face flushed and not just from his body heat.

It was so erotic! He was unhinged, like an animal. I'd never seen him that way before. It was... kind of hot. And I had to admit, at least to myself, I had enjoyed it. A lot.

I smiled into the side of the mattress and let a little giggle escape. He truly made me feel things I'd never felt before.

Was this his way of getting me back? He practically forced me to sleep in his bed with him too, which we hadn't done since that night I got out of the infirmary at Durmstrang. Did he mean to take everything back and be my boyfriend again?

A very large part of me, the part I had been denying and trying to so desperately to let go of, wanted that so much. I wanted him to tell me he was mine and I was his and we would pick up right where we left off.

The smaller part, the betrayed and angry part of me, wanted to leave in the stillness of the night without another word to him and just chalk it up to a drunken mistake. On his part. I had only had two butterbeers and besides being really sore from our exploits, I felt pretty good.

I started to let my mind wander a little with the thoughts of getting back together and how good that would feel. How whole I would feel again. How it was supposed to be....

He stirred a little, pulling me back closer to him again. I sighed deeply. There was no way I could sleep again with this incessant heat! I tried to pull away a little and that woke him up.

"Why, hello, darling." He said huskily into the dark.

"Hi." I said timidly.

"You stayed." He was smiling, his dark chocolate eyes barely open and only slightly visible in the dark.

"You forced me to." I giggled a little.

"Are you hot? Your back feels sweaty." He commented.

"Yes. Your body heat is impossible. Especially when you've been drinking."

His brow furrowed a bit. "Sorry. I mean that it's so hot. I'm.... not sorry... about everything else."

Now it was my turn to smile. "I'm not sorry either."

"Good." His reply was soft in the night.

We were quiet for a few moments. I could tell he was thinking. Probably just like I had been before he woke up. I could feel his warm breath on my shoulder and then he pressed his lips there too. Just like he used to.

"I.... " I struggled for the words. And then I cleared my throat softly. "Does this mean... you want to... get back together?"

He didn't answer right away. "Does... this mean you'll not be out killing people and using dark magic?" There was no judgement in his tone. Only curiosity.

"Magic doesn't work like that, Sebastian. You even told me that once. I'm not out 'killing people' either. We have taken on a few poacher camps but that was to free the animals and test out our powers. We're just trying to find out about our birth family. It's really not like you think it is..." I tried to explain. His arms loosened on me. I turned slightly to look at him.