The Valkyrie Returns and Slays (Raven)

Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Chapter 147

Cassian paused for a beat, startled by what he'd just heard. Then, the smile in his eyes deepened, and something sharper flashed across them.

"Let's go," he said simply.

Before Raven could even react, he had already grabbed her hand and was leading her away with such purpose and speed it was as if the rest of the academy had ceased to exist.

He didn't slow, didn't hesitate, heading straight for the one place few students dared to venture near-the ancient Archive Hall beside the president's office.

Raven raised a brow in mild amusement, letting herself be led without resistance. Her gaze drifted to his back, and a faint, knowing smile began to curl at her lips.

Moments later, they stood before the grand double doors of the Archive Hall. Cassian pushed them open without hesitation, and as the doors creaked inward, warm golden light spilled out across the stone steps.

The moment they stepped inside, the heavy doors swung shut behind them with a dull boom, locking out anyone who might've been foolish enough to follow.

Just as the room fell silent again, Raven turned.

Without warning, her hand came up and pressed firmly against the stone wall beside Cassian's head-classic kabedon position, clean and practiced.

Cassian blinked. Something about this felt... off.

But before he could put his finger on it, Raven leaned in, her lips tilted in a chill, teasing smile, and her voice brushed his ear like silk over steel.

"Going through so much trouble just to seduce me?" she said softly. "Go on- what's your endgame?"

Cassian was speechless.

pass over his face and couldn't stop the slight gleam of amusement that lit up her eyes. Still, her tone dropped a few degrees colder as she added, "Not talking? Trying to play the shy game with me now? Or are you going to say you're just

Now he got it.

been... cast in the role

lips curled into that familiar, wickedly seductive smirk. "And what if I do want

"You're just a pretty face with no real weight.

gaze swept over his features, slow and deliberate, before she added coolly, "Thirty

Cassian's smirk froze.

casually, with the air of someone bestowing a favor. Thirty dollars? That

and smirked faintly. "Not happy?" she

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Chapter 147

said nothing, his jaw

said, clearly pushing his buttons now. "And don't ask for

before he could fire back, Raven's fingers lifted to grip his

her lips were on

and

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instinct, his mind blanking for a moment as his body reacted before he could think

slid around his waist,

back of his mind, he was still

for forty bucks-but Raven's hand was moving now, and his outrage began to slip

completely gave in. 'Forty dollars... is still

as things began to escalate, the temperature in the

Cold. Raven's

head

Archive Hall was built like a cathedral-its interior hollow and spiraling upward in gold-lined staircases that wrapped