10 - Azira.

I'll never get that flash of excitement in his eyes out of my mind when he licked my blood from his fingers. It was sinful and utterly beast like, and yet the image makes my thighs clench.

"Azira?"

I shake my head. "What?"

"I asked if you want to go swimming after class?" Adrianna asks.

Adrianna and I always swim together, as we're both strong swimmers and used to be on the team, when SA had one. After an incident with one of our students assaulting a student from a normal local school, the team got disbanded. In fact, they stopped all team games involving competing with other schools from that day because it shed too much light on the questionable practices of SA.

I'm about to agree and then I remember the cut on my back, which I definitely don't want her to see. My stomach dips. "A rain check for now. I'm still so sore?"

Adrianna nods. "Sure, I wasn't thinking." She sighs. "I wish they didn't stop the swim team sessions, even if we can't compete with the other schools. We still coul