I close my eyes and lean in slowly into her touch. Her lips a hair strand away from mine. Don't you dare. Garth mentally instructs into my mind. Feeling defeated and emotionally drained at the moment, I sigh heavily and fall back toward the bed. Feeling my face slipping out of the grip of her hands feels like falling off a cliff into oblivion. Seconds later a knock is heard on the door, her eyes dart toward it so quickly it feels like she's breaking from the trance we were both in.
"Come in." she says her voice a little hoarse in the moment. My heart aches. A pang of anger surfaces and I struggle to shrug it off. Who the hell would I be mad at? Garth? In as much as he has gotten actually involved with her sexually he wasn't the one constantly distracted by her. So in this moment he was just doing what any other agent would do. Making sure their partner had their head in the game. I was fucking done for. Garth opens the door and leans on the door frame for a few moments shooting us an am I interrupting? look.
He shoots me a quick and short death stare that lets me know I'll be receiving a talk about what was about to happen a few moments ago. I can't tell what's worse, my sex machine of a friend lecturing me about almost kissing Reika, or the fact that I was going to get lectured despite the fact that I didn't actually kiss her. How does she feel about this? Does she think I'm another humanly thing type of distraction? Well I definitely wasn't the type to be spiraling over a girl anyway but here I was. But she wasn't just some girl.
"Okay so there's scheduled training sessions that you'll start, from tomorrow." Garth informs. None of us act fazed about it. i read Telena's mind so I know it's part of the agreement she made with Reika, and Reika obviously knows which only means he was here on mission cockblock.
"Who will I be training with?" Reika asks. It's the way she really sounds so serious in this moment that makes me feel like going berserk for a second. I was the fucking best junior agent at Meridian, who else would she be training with? Garth the creatures and monster expert? I slowly exhale and clear my throat "Me." I drawl and shoot her a knowing look. She chuckles lightly and rolls her eyes in a sassy way. "Well this should be fun." She says getting from her bed.
"Get out." She orders and we both hesitate for a second. "This is still my room guys, God forbid the girl actually needs a little privacy."
And just like that, Garth and I are gently pushed out of the her room and into the corridor and she shuts her bedroom door muttering something about going insane. Before I can comprehend what's happening, Garth grabs my arm and and leads me downstairs all the way to the basement. "What?" I choke out coughing from all the dust that is down here. Dang she really hadn't done anything down here since she moved here. "What? That's all you have to say?" He starts. Oh well I saw this coming from a mile away. "First of all we have to convert this basement into a work out studio, second, what the hell was I about to walk into?"
At least he's upfront with it. "Are you asking because you are actually interested in her past her underwear or....." I attack. Cheap tactic but honestly why would he care. "No but you are and that's not okay." he shoots back.
"Says who?" I know I sound like a child but honestly I don't know what to say. It's not like there were restrictions to who anyone could date in the magic world so hey. "Are you fucking mental? She's a Psythelian, have you even sat down and considered what you channeling her makes you?" He asks. Oh I knew. I was well the fuck aware what channeling her could lead to. It would temporarily make me the most powerful being in the magical world but it wasn't gonna get there. "Relevance?"
"Relevance is you are emotionally attracted to one of the most dangerous people to ever exist and you're asking me relevance? I miss the time when you used your brain." he says with a withdrawn tone. I know what he means. How can I possibly explain to him that I understand more than anyone what he means. He didn't need to know that yet. Garth was one of the top ranking agents as well, but even he was prone to mind attacks and I could not risk anyone else knowing. I decide to play dumb, it's better this way. And with that I sigh and we start working on the room in pin drop silence, communicating telepathically if we needed something.
We end up finishing around midnight, which is actually a compliment to our skills since we didn't ask for any help from other agents. I head up stairs for a quick shower before I go home. She has all this fancy stuff in there, and like one million different products that I'm sure cost a fortune but smell amazing. I make a quick work of cleaning myself up and dressing up. I'm on my way downstairs when a familiar noise captures my attention. I move closer to it, finding myself next to Reika's bedroom door. My heart nearly stops when I identify the noise as .... moaning. Another deep masculine voice groans and my heart sinks to my ass.
I have never been in a position like this, neither did I wish to ever be, but the envy was eating at me like a cancer and I did something I never would have done in my right mind. I was not in my right mind, not when it came to her and I hated it. Nevertheless I channeled Garth's power and read Reika's thoughts.