House of Night. Dark Times (Book 3)

Chapters 1-5

Chapter 1.

After they had fully recovered and the high priestess made sure that Ryu and Avery wouldn't die. She began to help them deal with the consequences of killing a fencing teacher. Well Avery was the one who killed him, Ryu was there for moral support. It was only about a month of consequences of mucking out the stables and making sure all the weapons were put back in place in the field house that Avery had to endure. Even though the punishment was awful she always loved coming back to the dorms. Female or Male. To see Ryu had made her something to eat and had her favorite show ready for her to watch every night she came back.

Things were going good for them both as a couple. They did get the constant hateful glare because Avery once again had the hottest guy in school that was her boyfriend but Ryu was also her warrior. The night they first were able to take a walk without crutches, Ryu had given his warrior's oath to Avery. It made her happy more than anything else in the world, it made her glad that she had saved him, had chosen him over Zace. The one thing that worried her most was the spells and potions professor, Artemis. She had been madly in love with Zace and had been making Avery's life hell after hearing of Zace's death. It didn't bother Avery much when she had her friends around but it bothered her more when she was alone with Artemis.

Although everything was good, she still had nightmares about Zace, about the night she had felt so much anger and power surge through her that when she looked at Zace, she had felt as if wind shot from her eyes, fueled by anger that it slung Zace back against the wall with a force so hard it snapped his neck.

Chapter 2.

Avery was having another nightmare after she went to sleep that night but this one was different. She had the same nightmare up until the point where she looked back at Ryu to see if he was alright but this time in the dream he didn't have the same cocky grin she had come to love so much. His grin was more devious, it was more lustful and just plain evil and his eyes were a blood red. A brighter red than she'd ever seen then she glanced and his mouth was dripping blood. Something about his look shot fear through her and made her start to panic until she jerked awake and gripped the closest thing her hand could grab. After a moment or so of collecting her thoughts and waking up a bit more she started to look around and remembered that she went to the male dorms to see Ryu and fell asleep with him, she was gripping his shirt when she had jerked awake. Her cheeks turned red a bit as she changed her glance, seeing Zeke asleep on the other bed with his phone on his forehead, she laughed to herself then looked up to see Ryu with one arm behind his head.

"Well you're finally awake." His voice made her jump a bit as she didn't know he was awake. She watched as he looked down a bit and a cocky grin grow on his face, he looked into her eyes then winked. "Have the dream again?" His expression softened. She finally found her voice to speak "yea..it was uh..different this time but it's fine. It's just a stupid dream." She grinned at him then felt his body move as he laid on his side before wrapping one arm around her lower back then used his other hand to grab her ass and lift her up to bring her up closer than him. "Well whenever you have that dream, just know I'm here when you wake up and that I'm not gonna let anything happen to you ever again." After finishing his sentence he leaned forward and started to kiss her softly at first then the kiss grew deeper as he gripped her ass a bit tighter, pulling her closer against his body. He had been jumping at the chance to have her close to him a lot lately and she knew he wanted sex, hell, he knew she wanted sex but every time they tried. Someone would either bust in or one of them would fall asleep but this time might finally be different. Zeke was a heavy sleeper and he normally didn't wake up unless someone dropped a book on his head so after a small bit of thinking, Avery finally let her guard down and pressed against Ryu, kissing him back with the same amount of deepness, their bodies rubbing and pressing against each other made Avery remember the night under the tree when they had blood shared and became imprinted with each other.