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“Your mate would be beyond safe here. With V and Onyx along with all the mates, no one would get near her.”
Another length of silence. “I want to be there for you and Onyx and Raven, too,” I admitted. “I don’t want to be the uncle the baby never sees. I don’t want to be a ghost in your life anymore, Ash. I want you to meet my mate and have her meet all of you, even V and her mates.”
He nodded. “I miss you, bro. I really do. Feels like I’m missing an arm or something. But what the hell can we do about it?”
I leaned back in my chair, crossing my arms over my chest. “There has to be something. There has to be. We’re smart guys. Let’s figure this shit out.”
Chapter Seven
Karelis
I experienced a whole new wave of frustration as the next day ended. The mean girls were extra mean, and the main one, the one with the messy hair, tripped me going into class, a bullying tactic straight out of a bad high school flick. But we weren’t in a movie. We were real-life people, trying to survive, day by day.
Anyway, I hated those damned movies.
It’s all I can do to stop myself from stomping from class to my dorm room and shutting the world out. Fuck this academy and fuck all the damned bullies. It’s almost not worth it. Being on the streets and on the run from the Light Kingdom would be better than all of this.
No. No, it wouldn’t. I have a safe place to rest my head and regular meals.
And I wouldn’t dare leave out my main reason for staying here. My new reason. My mates.
“Karelis!” I felt a hand on my waist and turned, snarling. “Hey! It’s me, sweetheart. It’s just me.” Blaze had his hands up.
“Sorry.” I stepped up to him and kissed him right on the mouth. They started it—all the kissing in public. “It’s been a shit day.”
“Let’s get some dinner to go and we can go to our suite. There’s something we want to talk to you about.”
“That sounds good. Did you see June?” I asked.
“No, but I’m sure she’s there, too. We can make sure she gets to your room safely.” We said that word a lot lately. Safe.
We found June and, coincidentally, Adan and Cas weren’t far behind her. She complained about them being her shadows all day long, but she did so with a smile.
Once June was in our dorm room, I made my excuses to go eat and talk with my mates.
My mates. The notion got less and less weird now, but I still thought that one day, they would realize who I was or who I wasn’t and break the connection that was so new. These guys were already buried in my soul, so if they decided to go, it would break me in two.
Maybe three.
“What are we talking about?” I asked as I opened our Styrofoam container and moaned at how good it smelled. All three guys whipped their heads in my direction. “What?”
“That was quite a sound, female,” Casimir said, groaning.
Blaze cleared his throat. “I talked to my twin, Asher, yesterday and his mate, one of his mates, is pregnant.”
I stopped eating. “That’s amazing. You’re going to be an uncle. Wait, why…we’re not having a babies discussion, are we? I…we haven’t even…no. I’m not talking about babies.”
All three of them cracked up.
“No.” Blaze patted my hand. “We’re not talking about babies, but I am wanting to get out of here.”
I sat back. I was hungry, but this was more important. My wolves felt the change in the air. My mates were up to something big. Something life-changing.
“Quit school? Leave here? And go where?”
Adan came over and pulled me into his lap, taking the chair I’d sat in, and wrapped his arms around my waist. “We want to transfer to the Urban Academy.”
“The one I went to first?”
