Page 234 of A University of Betrayal

He was definitely one of the Senseque who were particularly aggressive toward Ruisangors. He would kill Miles on his father’s orders. I was sure of it. Had he ever killed a Ruisangor?

A strange thought…

I looked at Mica scrutinizingly, not wanting him to get too involved, as I knew that Ruisangors were seen as an even more dangerous threat in Russia and were wiped out systematically. The only problem was that my brother had upset him when he had interrupted our dinner, which probably made Mica just as foggy. I had the feeling that none of the people involved saw Miles’ true intentions. They all had their own personal interests to follow.

And as far as Mica was concerned... Senseque were willing to do anything for their pack. We weren’t part of Mica’s pack, which had followed him and his father here from Russia and was now on campus with our guys. Mica was probably glad to get a chance to prove his strength to them, even though I could clearly sense his tension.

Only Julian seemed to be in the present, for whatever reason, and eyed Miles suspiciously.

I had to smile again.We had a date tonight. After all these years of distance.

The joy in my stomach at this fact masked all the other chaos, at least for the moment, until Miles snapped me back to the uncomfortable present.

“And your annoying sister.”

Missile

Dorothy

My smile disappeared for good as all eyes turned to me. My heart inevitably slid further down because I hated attention. There seemed to be only one thing I would hate even more from now on, and that wasMiles DeLoughrey.

Another look of triumph settled on the devil’s face. I didn’t grant him that this time. He would realize first-hand that he had just made a huge mistake.

“Watch your mouth!” Nash growled.

“That’s not going to happen!” Mica shouted loudly, as if he could just decide that. A vein stood out at his temple.

What was wrong with them? If there was one thing I didn’t like, it was this silly fuss. I didn’t need anyone to defend me.

“Find yourself a strong man, not a girl.”

My jaw dropped. I hadn’t expected those words from Mica.

Not only did Nash turn to him, Julian also grimaced and shook his head.

I had to let those words sink in…

Was he serious?

“I’ve heard she’s an excellent athlete,” Miles drew my attention back to him. His eyes were on me. His smile had disappeared and all I could see was seriousness.

Anger rose up my throat. Only last week he had given me a moral lecture about thesupposed conditionsin my pack, and now he was standing there, experiencing the son of the Russian Alpha at his worst.

He had been right, but not in the way he thought, and the fact that everything was playing into his hands was a disaster.

“Her,or none,” Miles said insistently, with the greatest patience a Ruisangor could muster. And for whatever reason, it made me feel better.

“Find yourself an equal player.”

“I just don’t see anyone more my equal than her,” Miles interrupted Mica sharply, giving him a withering look, and the surprise in my chest grew a little more.

Miles hadn’t meant to defend me,of course not.He wanted to compete against me, to finish me off. Only he didn’t know that at that moment, he was strengthening me more than ever.

“I don’t see anything fair about you competing against a girl...”

“Agreed.” I couldn’t help but interrupt Mica’s testosterone overloaded rant and give him a cold look.

His words had been more than hurtful, anda lothad to happen to redeem himself.

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