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Zeke looked at the offerings set out for the buffet with disappointment. Though all of it was quality food, as was
expected at this academy, considering the amount of money most of them had to pay to be here, none of it
smelled as amazing as whatever had been prepared earlier.
“Have you changed your mind?” Derek asked as he loaded a plate full of food.
Sighing. he picked up a plate and put something on it without paying much attention to what it was. He seemed
to have lost his appetite without the delicious offering he had been looking forward jo.
When he picked up a bottle of water as well, he looked over at his usual table and saw Myles already sitting
there with a group of girls-Claire’s group of friends. The three girls went everywhere together and always forced
their company on them, as if Claire was trying to pair up her friends with his, too. They turned up at every single
place they went-like magic. The girls never ate in the cafeteria, so he could only guess that somebody had told
them they were there.
With another sigh, he walked over to his table, nodding at sof his counterparts along the way. This school
taught them how to be diplomatic and maintain relationships, and he thought he did that quite well. It didn’t
matter that sof them rubbed him the wrong way or that he sensed a lot of fear in them: it was his job to
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“Hi, babe, Claire smiled brightly.
Babe? He frowned at her as he took his usual seat at the head of the table and then opened his bottle of water
without answering
Maybe it was the thought about ending this relationship. Even before his father arranged his mate, he had
always. known he and Claire wouldn't go beyond a few tumbles in the sheets during the semesters. But Claire
had becso comfortable with him that she constantly used these pet names. His father would lose his shit if
he ever heard her call him
that.
“Is that all you're having?” Myles asked, nodding at his plate.
“Turns out I'm not hungry after all, he answered.
He could sense Claire's feelings. She hadn't liked being ignored, but he was pretty sure it was something he did
regularly. Why she still stuck around was beyond him. No, actually, it wasn’t. She wanted the honour of being
called the next Luna of the Blood Moon Pack, even though he had never put that offer on the table.
She was beautiful enough for that role. She was all chest and but, and she was strong enough, as proved by how
well she did in their combat classes. Those had been, and still were, the only reasons he had picked her in the
first place. But he wanted a little more in the brains department for his future mate. And he didn’t want a girl
who would worry more about her wardrobe than being the mother of the pack. The woman his father had picked
for that role ticked all those boxes.
“Did you hear what happened today? Claire asked as she peeled a banana
“No, but I'm sure you'll tell us,” Myles said with a tight smile.
“There's a human enrolled in the school.”
Zeke paused what he was doing to pay more attention to what she said.
“That's impossible. No humans can find this place, and the Council doesn’t make mistakes like that,” he pointed
out!
“And yet she’s here,” Claire grinned, her green eyes twinkling now that she had his attention. “You should have
seen her. She
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looks like they pickest her up from a homeless shelter. | bet she be dead within a week”
She must be something. You know how things work. Maybe she a weak witch” Derek said as he dug into his tood
“No, the stench of human was undenable. But she’s been put in the Omega dorms, so maybe that’s true.” Claire
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmsaid with a shrug. “I guess we will know for sure when the lessons start tomorrow”
He ate a bit of the pastry on his plate as he thought about this The Academy was no place for a human, and
Claire was night she probably wouldn't last the week. How did an invite end up in her hands? Had she taken
someone else’s place!
He decided to put those thoughts aside. | was not his place to question the Council.
“Are you going to the party Claire asked atter a while.
Sometimes, he was sure she talked only because she liked the sound of her own voice. Otherwise, she would
think first before she opened her mouth.
He pushed his half-eaten pastry away and looked at the woman beside him. For three years, Jared had thrown
his obnoxiously loud parties every first night of the semester. So his parties had, for sreason unknown to
him becthe only parties thrown the day they all got back
Claire had better not be thinking what he thought she was thinking because he would end things with her right
there. He felt his wolf stir as he looked at the traitor.
Claire looked down in submission, unable to hold his gaze
“I'm sorry, | forgot,” she whispered.
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