Page 18 of Renegade

Huh. I hadn’t realized that.

We strolled in, laughing with each other about how the first day she didn’t even drink her coffee. She confessed while pushing up her black glasses that she was so completely nervous, she was nauseated.

“Gods, I know that feeling. It’s the worst.”

We continued our conversation while waiting in line to pick up warm croissant breakfast sandwiches and fruit parfaits, along with the mandatory cappuccino. Peppermint flavored today. Once we sat down, I heard the doors open behind me and, while I would usually not pay the noise any mind, whoever came in wasn’t just another student. The tiny hairs on the back of my neck rose. The rims of my ears tingled. A blanket of knowing was thrown over my shoulders.

“What?” June asked as I looked up at her.

“Um…” I didn’t know what to say and honestly, without craning my neck, I couldn’t say which one of the boys my wolves had the wagging tongues for was here. But one of them, or a combination, or all of them was definitely in the room. “I got a feeling.”

“Glad to see no monsters got to you after I left, Karelis.” Blaze leaned over to greet me. It was too early to be smiling asbrightly as he was.

Someone shoved him from the back and, before my next breath, all three of them were standing in front of me. None more gorgeous than the other but all panty-meltingly sexy.

“Nope.”

Gods, I had to work on my in-front-of-hot-guys conversation skills.

Blaze chuckled, but the blond one kicked him. “We’ll talk about this later. I’m Adan.” He put out his hand, and I shook it. I hoped they didn’t notice my hands had gone clammy.

“I’m Casimir. It’s lovely to meet you.” Another handshake. My thighs quivered as I sat in the hard chair, trying to be cool and failing.

“Nice to meet you all. I…this is June. My roommate.” I snorted as my gaze fell on her. Her eyes were glazed over, and her mouth was open. At least I wasn’t the only one that had an intense reaction to these three. “June?”

She finally snapped out of it. “Oh yeah. June. Me June. I’m June. Sorry, we haven’t finished all our coffee yet. Our mouths haven’t gotten the alive-and-awake memo.”

The guys chuckled. “We’re going to eat. But it was nice to put a name to a face. I hope we see you around, Karelis.” Casimir winked at me before they all walked away. He should really warn people before he did that.

I swear those three were a danger to the general population. I picked up my sandwich, but she fixed me with a glare, and I set it down. “What?”

“Not another bite until you spill what happened last night, Karelis.” June instantly changed her tone.

“You slept through it all.” I told her the story, and she gasped and gawked at all the right places. While I told her, the boys sat two tables away from us, but the way my wolves were reacting, it was like they had sat in my damned lap.

“You know who they are, right? What people call them?”

I shook my head and flicked my gaze to their table. As near as they were, they could still hear us. “What?”

Instead of saying it, she took out her phone and typed two words before handing it to me.

Three Kings.

They had a name? Like a small gang? Like their own pack? Weird. Then again, I wanted to be their queen so…

“We are talking. Tonight.”

We ate, and I finished off my peppermint cappuccino in no time. As soon as it was done, someone placed another by my plate. I looked up to see Casimir standing next to me. “I figured you needed a second one.”

“Thank you,” I said, and he nodded once, a strand of blond hair brushing his forehead. His blue eyes were breathtaking.

“You’re welcome.”

He strolled away and sat down, but the gesture was noticed by everyone. The boys were struck dumb, and the girls looked angry I was even alive. I felt their sneers and hisses like lashes on my arm for bad behavior. One girl even went so far as to slap her hands on the table and stomp away.

“Don’t mind them. They’re jealous,” June said.

“It’s coffee, not a proposal,” I scoffed but drank some since not doing so seemed damned rude. Casimir had gone to the trouble of bringing it to me. I kind of wanted to drink it all so one of them would bring me another.

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