Page 17 of Renegade

“I saw something outside the window.” He plopped on the couch. “So, I went to check it out.”

“Something? Anything in particular?” Was he trying to beannoying? If so, he was succeeding.

He stood and walked to the window and pointed. We followed like the lemmings we were. “See?”

“What?” I shouldered him aside in order to get any view at all. “I don’t see anything but outside. Lights did illuminate the area close to the buildings, but the distance was shrouded in shadows. There wasn’t even any moonlight, the silvery orb having set already. Starlight prickled the sky, but that wasn’t enough to show us much, especially with the outside lights setting all the rest into blackness. Only the skeletal outlines of trees broke through enough, mostly because a moderate wind had come up and bounced the limbs, making them a different kind of dark. “Is there something out there?”

Adan peered out as well. “Not a thing that I can see. Come on, Blaze.”

“I wouldn’t have gone unless I saw something. In fact, I had decided to try to toe the line and not leave the room at all after our last foray.”

“And then you did. So, what is it we are supposed to be seeing now?” I was starting to get tired of this whole conversation and wanted to get back to bed.

“Nothing…now. But there were lights out there, colored lights out in the grassy area and toward the trees. I was sitting there, minding my own business and hoping to get sleepy when they appeared.”

“Okay.” Adan let out a whoosh of air. “And then? What did you find?”

“Nothing.” He shrugged. “Basically by the time I got out there, the only sign anything had happened at all was a burned section of lawn. And then I came back.”

“What are you hiding?” I had known him too long not to recognize the smirk he was trying to conceal. “Talk. You saw lights, you went outside, ran across a burned patch of grass, andcame home?”

“Well, that’s all that happened with the lights. I might have stopped to speak to one of our neighbors across the hallway.”

“Aha!” I knew there was something. “And what girl is this?”

“One of the girls Adan and I saw outside the office on the first day of class. Her name is Karelis, and she’s really something.”

“Freshman?” Adan asked. “New to the school for sure.”

“Yep, but she’s not much younger than us. And I didn’t get a chance to hear a lot of her story, but she’s got some worries, and I intend to find out what they are.”

“I’m intrigued.” I dug into the snack cupboard and pulled out a bag of chips. Looked like one of the guys had done some stocking up. “Go on.”

“She was waiting when I got back, sitting there all huddled up in her sweatshirt, and I had the most irresponsible urge to pick her up and carry her back to the suite with me.”

“Really?” Now I really wanted details. “Not just flirting?”

“Not that there would be anything wrong with that,” Adan said.

“This is not like that, even if it was something I did. My wolf was on full alert and insisting we get to know her better. Honestly, there’s something special about Karelis.”

“We may have a problem,” Adan said. “Because my wolf is also very interested.”

“Why does that have to be a problem?” I asked. “You two don’t like to share?”

“I never thought about it.” Blaze tilted his head to the side then righted it. “My brother has two female mates. What do you say, Adan?”

“I say you’re deciding how to share a female who has not agreed to be with either of you,” I cut in, feeling superior. “Very misogynistic, gentlemen.”

“You haven’t even seen her.” Blaze fixed me with a glare. “She’s beyond gorgeous, and funny, and it took all I had not to kiss her.”

Chapter Seventeen

Karelis

“Please tell me there’s coffee,” I groaned as we walked toward the dining hall. I’d only had the pleasure of these uniforms for about a week, and already they were on my last nerve. June had added some metal pins to her collar, along with wearing her tie loosely to stand out a bit from the others and insisted that I do as well.

“There’s always coffee,” June said. “Even at lunchtime.”

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