Page 111 of Cursed Heirs

Good,I’d gotten their fucking attention.

A hand landed on my shoulder and I turned to see Orpheus there, shaking his head at me.

“Had it covered, baby bird.”

Before I could argue back, he smiled and added, “But giving them an extra kick in the ass never hurts.”

He stepped back from me and let out a wolf-whistle.

In the very next second, Xavier blurred across the area and came to a sudden stop right in front of us.

He and Orpheus exchanged a loaded look, then X told me, “You didn’t take a shower yet today. You’ve just been flying since your afternoon classes let out, all the way through to dinnertime now. Let’s get you cleaned up, then we’ll head to the cafeteria before studying together.”

“I still have time.” I gestured out at the students. “And what about them? They’re not all gonna miss night classes, right, or the faculty will know something is up?”

“Those who have classes tonight will go, the rest will remain, and it’ll switch out like that going forward,” Ore told me.

“Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Well thought out.” I eyed him. “Just like having X come to pull me away as soon as I swept on in.”

“As soon as youswept on inwith a whole lot of rage,” Ore corrected.

“Give me some credit.”

“If I wasn’t, I wouldn’t have allowed your outburst to even come to pass. I would’ve stopped you mid-flight. You were so caught up in your anger that I spotted you immediately. Even through the dark. You didn’t employ your stealth abilities at all.”

“Yeah, okay, I’m a little worked up. You want me to list the reasons why?”

“I’m well aware,” he returned evenly.

And firmly. Real firmly, making it clear I was coming close to outright challenging him.

And Orpheus Hart wouldn’t stand for that.

Especially not in front of his army that needed to keep their faith in him, their respect, and high opinion of his capabilities, which he’d been demonstrating since his first day at the Academy.

“Fine. I’ll go. Just… keep me updated, all right?”

“I promised I would and I will.”

I turned and fell into step with Xavier as we headed back toward the main building.

“Sorry, I was meant to come and get you sooner, but after I spoke to my dad this afternoon, I got caught up in my writing.”

Yeah, his dad was calling him twice a day since we’d headed back about thirty-six hours ago. I wasn’t surprised after what had happened. He’d be doing that for a while. I was sure, if he could, and hadn’t been run off his feet withExemplarandSabre Tech,he would’ve been down here in person too. As it was, he was doing what he could.

Just like we all were.

Well, all except me.

I was just going to classes.

Orpheus was preparing his army.

X was babysitting me and having sessions with that therapist that his dad had set him up with, the woman having been given special passage in and out of the locked down Academy because of the severity of the issue. X had also been relaying allExemplarupdates from his dad to us, so we weren’t cut out this time and we were instead kept abreast of the Constantine situation.

Unfortunately a lot of that just involved the fucker lying low andExemplarscouring the supernatural world for any leads on him.

Ore had his contacts keeping an eye on Abigail’smind-readingof that supposed font of intel, Taelorn.

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