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“Study?” Thierry inquired. “I could assist you—”
“No.” Nix side-stepped around Bael and began to head to the door. “I need to visit a, uh, friend on campus. Alone.”
“Alone?”
“Alone.” Nix offered a definition to the confused-looking incubus, “On my own.”
“I think you forgot that someone might have tried to kill you last night.”
Nix froze on her way to the door.
“What if they try something again today? You don’t have alpha healing, Nix,” Bael told her as if she did not already know and curse that fact.
“So?”
“So?” Thierry repeated in disbelief. “You were the one who told me that your kind require protection, that you are more likely to be taken and abused and—”
“I’m going to be fine,” she exclaimed, exasperated.
Okay, somaybeshe wouldn’t be fine. In her past life, her room had never caught fire. She had never had someone break into her room and paint WHORE over her bed.
It was a new future already. What if shedidn’thave until graduation before everything went to shit?I have an uncertain amount of time to change my future.
“You need one of us with you at all times,” Thierry said.
“I don’t need a babysitter.”
“The only sitting you need to do is on my face,” Bael commented.
Thierry shouldered Bael, sneaking in to stand between Nix and the incubus.
The professional professor loomed over her, holding her gaze hostage. “I have waited my entire life, knowing I had two options: to turn into inanimate stone or to find my mate. I will not lose you now that I have you.”
Nix sputtered, “I have important things to do before class this morning.” How was it that “Ugly Duckling” was having a hard time giving the two gorgeous, sexy men in front of her the brush off?
Thierry replied smoothly, “Then, we’re coming with you.”
“Even though I specifically requested to be alone?” Nix inquired. Okay, maybe her studly professor mate didnotlisten.
“I just told you that some students are disappearing. After your little room incident, we’re not going to be leaving you alone again.” Bael continued, “Even when you shower, I will take one for the team and watch you—”
“Whatever,” Nix said, grabbing the doorknob and gesturing for them to follow her. “Just hurry up.”
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CHAPTER
As Nix walked down the hallway of the academy’s main dorm building, she received stares.
Every person she passed seemed to pause mid-conversation, look at her, and gape.
Maybe it was having the school’s infamous incubus and the heartthrob professor walking right behind her.Rightbehind her.
Their scents intermingled again and wrapped her in a delicious, woodsy chocolate atmosphere. Like a sexy picnic with melted chocolate being licked off someone’s body in the woods.Thatwas what their combined scent brought to mind.
Distracting.
Shivering, she swore Bael’s fingers hovered just over her ass, but every time she turned, he wore an innocent expression with his hands deep in his pockets.
