Page 13 of The First Year

Except, within seconds, and without the sun above me lighting the way, I soon found myself lost again. Shit.

I wasn’t going to run into creepazoid again, so I opened the first door I saw and took a chance that it was the dorm building.

Nothing seemed familiar.

I was usually good with directions but this place and this headache and the damned fever that surged and fled made it hard to concentrate or think clearly. I went up a set of stairs, hoping that something seemed familiar but nothing did.

Maybe I could get back outside and find a placard or someone to help me who wasn’t throwing around his big flashlight and his even bigger ego.

Once outside, I scanned the area. I was in between the building and a gate that was at least twelve foot tall and menacing with points on the tips of each pole. I was surprised not to find barbed wire across the top.

“Damn it. First day, and I’m more lost than when I arrived.”

A scent hit my nose, and my wolf snarled a bit before letting out a howl.

There was someone close.

“I’m sorry. I’m lost again.”

“Is that right?” I heard the voice and tingles broke out along my skin. Not the icky ones from the guy before but a signal that someone my wolf liked very much was near. “What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this?”

Chapter Ten

Evander

I watched her for a few minutes. For a second, I thought maybe I’d found a partner in crime, until she turned toward me. Her eyes were wide, and a sheen of sweat lay across her brow.

She wasn’t out here to cause mayhem like me, even if it was only a bit of fun. Roxy was scared and, for some reason, it stirred my wolf.

“What’s a girl like you doing in a place like this?”

Roxy’s hand flew to her chest. “You scared the fuck out of me.”

I laughed. A girl with a foul mouth. Roxy was growing on me more and more. “You’re late getting to bed. Shame on you.”

She scoffed. “I could say the same about you.”

I shrugged one shoulder. “Eh, there’s a glitch in our locking system. I can get out anytime I want without tripping the alarm.”

“So you galivant around the academy at all hours of the night preying on young women?”

My gaze traveled along her curvaceous body. Hips that begged to be gripped. Legs that demanded praise. Lips I somehow knew might be the end of me.

“Just one, actually.”

“Where is she?” Roxy asked. A lilt of flirtation coupled with her sweet scent nearly got the best of my wolf. He howled inside me, demanding to show him our other form.

He could kiss my ass. This woman was in trouble in more ways than one. The circles under her eyes had somehow gotten darker since dinner. Her skin tone more pallid. Her chest moved in and out with shallow breaths but, then again, they could be from her running from or toward something.

Silly female, thinking there was someone else.

“It’s you. You’re the female. You do know being outside after the bell rings is an instant demerit if you’re caught, right?”

She sighed and bit down on her bottom, plump lip. “I do. I ran into someone who threatened me with demerits but then said he would let me go because it was my first day.”

My wolf let out a bit of a snarl. “Who was it?”

“I don’t know his name. Big flashlight. Kind of sleazy.”

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