Chapter 60
Time at the Academy presents neat little patterns for us, and Rafe, Jesse, and I fall gratefully into them. Because life? It is busy. Every morning Jesse gets me up early, making me go for a run with him even before we go to breakfast. I’d enjoy these moments with my favorite cousin more if I wasn’t so damn tired every day.
“Can we get a coffee maker in the suite,” I pant, my breath puffing in little clouds in the damp and foggy air. “I can’t go for these runs without the aid of caffeine.”
“Come on, Scrimpy!” Jesse laughs, putting on a burst of speed and swatting me on the shoulder as he pulls ahead, obliging me to keep up. “Let your zest for life wake you in the morning! Not caffeine!”
“Life would be much more zesty with a little espresso,” I growl, sighing and speeding up to keep pace. “With a side of biscotti!”
After our run, we hastily get dressed and go to breakfast with our group. Luca, to my chagrin and agony, continues to ice me out. He sits with me at every meal, and at dinner he jokes with me and the rest of our group like nothing’s changed. But not once does he try to pull me aside, to make a moment to talk about what happened between us in the birch forest.
What he maybe, probably now knows the incredible secret he’s carrying, that I’m trusting
him with.
Breakfast, of course, wouldn’t be the best time to talk about anything, gathered as we are around our little round table, but still I’m dying to talk about what happened, to learn what he figured out about my secret, and he just…won’t let me.
–
“Luca,” I growl the next morning when Rafe and Jesse get up to go speak to some other warrior candidates about a group project they’re working on and Ben obligingly tucks his nose into a book. “What are –”
“No here, Shrimp,” Luca replies, his voice low. “This is a way bigger conversation that we’re not having in the Hall.”
“Well then why won’t you meet me in the…” I hesitate, glancing Ben’s way, because I almost
said dream. Ben just turns his page, looking for all the world like he’s completely lost in his textbook. “Forest,” I conclude, the word pressed between my teeth.
Luca narrows his eyes at me. “Oh, you want to meet in the forest?” he says, his lips turning up with the irony of it. “The one you can just make disappear whenever you’re done talking? Come on, Shrimp. You haven’t played fair for weeks, and you’re still not. I need… more than that.”
My mouth falls at his stubbornness and I realize, quite suddenly, that Luca – whatever he has figured out – is not at all freaked out.
mad at
pretty much read at breakfast today, trying to cram everything in while we can – because… Luca is right. I have not been fair, and while I’m not sure that
choices…
my mate take the brunt of it, haven’t I?
sorry,” I whisper, looking down at my
about
“So when…”
Ari,” he says, a little exasperated, lifting his eyes to meet mine. “Considering how your cousins never let you out
at the way that he emphasizes the word cousins,
consider anything, Rafe and Jesse return to the table. “Ready?” Rafe asks, looking towards Luca as he lifts his coffee to his lips and
Luca says, cheerfulness immediately returning to his expression
Ben as Luca and
towards
when I look up at him, and
it makes me want to jump right back
forcing my mind onto Chemistry, because I know that Neumann is going to quiz us hard
too much about it,” Ben murmurs from his spot a seat away from me, his voice so soft
say, looking up at
right?” My jaw drops open a little bit. “Whatever little lover’s quarrel you’re going through here it’s going
–
head to the side, still shocked but also
guy, but he wants the upper hand.” Ben shrugs. “But think about who you are, Ari. If you owe him an apology, give it, but don’t crawl after him begging him to accept it. You,” he says, looking at me significantly,
friend with an open mouth, before my face bursts into a smile. “When did you get so
sisters. Luca’s no puppy dog that’s going to follow you around begging for treats, but trust me – he
work,” he says, nodding
you,” I murmur, bumping
at ya,” he sighs happily. And then we study, my mind successfully turned to the more pressing matter right now:
concentrating. My wolf
the seat next to him, settling my chemistry books on the text in front of
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