Page 39 of Messenger of Death (Ouroboros Academy #2)

I didn’t particularly like letting Sage go off into town on her own, but Saffron was with her and Scorpia sounded like a badass old lady. It was rather rude she didn’t want to whisper fairy secrets in my ear, though. Especially since I was put in fairy classes and Sage wasn’t.

At any rate, we needed some male bonding time, so we didn’t drive Sage away bickering. And frankly, there were services Ouroboros Academy didn’t offer that the three of us were desperately in need of.

I refused to tell these wankers where we were going because I knew they were going to get precious about it, but it had to be done. It wasn’t like I was asking them to get their dick pierced or a tattoo.

I finally revealed what we were doing when we got to the spa.

“Listen, it’s rude to point your cock at a girl when it looks like you’ve got a damned Yeti in your pants.

You gotta manscape because there’s nothing worse than getting a pube in your mouth or watching a lass choke on yours.

I’m not asking you to get pierced or tattooed.

I’m asking you to get your sack waxed so Sage doesn’t have to endure that trauma. ”

“Oh, fuck you,” Khalid groaned.

“I always wax. It’s hygienic,” Lucian said.

Well, shite. I was looking forwards to the little buggar hollering when they ripped that first piece of wax off. I shaved, but I didn’t wax. The whole reason I booked an appointment to have my nuts waxed was to fuck with Lucian. I couldn’t back out now without looking like a dipshit.

Fuck me. If I hadn’t been so engrossed with Sage’s pussy and checked Lucian out when he was wanking while watching us, I might have noticed he waxed and not booked this excursion. Then again, Lucian and Khalid were very hetero, and I didn’t make it a point to peek when they were that straight.

I guess I was getting my sack waxed because I was committed.

I wrapped my arms around Khalid and Lucian’s shoulders and started leading us inside. Lucian used his vampire speed to dart away and get to the door first, which was just cheating. Arsehole.

I marched up to the desk and gave our names.

“Full body wax, right?”

“No!” Khalid said.

“Absolutely,” Lucian said at the same time.

Shite, I wasn’t backing out, but maybe I could change the scene a bit.

“How about a full body wax for this one and Khalid and I get a Brazilian and a pedicure?” I asked.

That was what it was called right? I hadn’t really looked into it. I thought the sweet song of Lucian throwing a tantrum would ease the sting of having all the hair ripped from my sack.

“This your first time?” she asked.

Yeah, I could tell by the look on her face she knew damned well Khalid, and I had never done this before.

She probably didn’t know this was a plot to fuck with the Prince of Darkness, but yeah, you could just look at Khalid and see he didn’t particularly want to do this and I was changing my mind more than a kid at a candy shoppe.

“The things we do for love, right?”

“Well, we’re going to do your toes first because it’s been slow today and if we do the manzilian first, you might run out of here in terror and we’ve all got bills. Go to the change room and put the robes on.”

“What the fuck, Liam? You made it seem like you’ve done this before,” Khalid hissed.

Yeah, that was fair. Khalid kind of got roped into the ball-waxing fuckery by extension. But this was about male bonding and Khalid and I would have a lot of misery to bond over. And we could gossip about Lucian if he was into this.

I just shrugged.

“I usually shave, but it’s kind of a pain. I figure this lasts longer.”

“Well, I trim so I don’t have Yeti pubes, either. Lucian waxes everything so I’m not sure why you booked full body waxes for all of us. Sage isn’t going to choke to death on our pubes.”

Lucian just rolled his eyes.

“It’s not bad at all, but no one is making either of you do anything. I’m getting waxed because I want to, but the two of you could just get a pedicure because that’s also nice and deal with your body hair how you usually do. No one is judging.”

“Fuck it. I’m getting a mani and a pedi,” Khalid said. “If you two want to wax, that’s on you.”

That was logical, and I wasn’t judging. They both gave me an out. I loved getting my nails done. I knew Khalid was just going to go for some buff and shine but I loved pretty colors on my nails.

But I couldn’t let Lucian one up me. If he was getting waxed, so was I.

I walked out there thinking I was prepared.

I was going to handle this better than Lucian.

Then it came time to get waxed, and she ripped that first strip off.

It was like she snatched a piece of my soul with my pubes.

It was a different kind of pain than I’d ever experienced.

If she’d wanted secrets, I’d have given her all of them.

And then when I thought I’d endured all of it and it was finally done, this lass asked me to lift my legs and started applying wax to my fucking arsehole.

No one told me a Brazilian involved ripping my arse hairs out.

What kind of person invented this? Why was waterboarding a thing when you could do this to a person?

Then again, I was also doing this willingly and paying for it.

No one ever called me sane.

When we finally left to meet Sage, I was rather burny below the waist and felt slightly violated. Lucian was happy as a pig to be rid of all his body hair and Khalid had really nice hands and feet now.

Next time I decided to fuck with Lucian, I was going to have to make a much better plan.