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Jenny looks up at the ceiling too. “Damn.”

Then, as I dig into one of my grilled cheese sandwiches, Jenny tells me about Volik barging into her office Monday afternoon, after I’d been in here. How awkward it was. And how awesome it was to see him pull the door shut without touching it.

I grin the whole time, picturing him being all cute.

“I wonder what his place is like.” Jenny tilts her head.

“This’ll be my first time going there. But he said it’s spacious enough that his new height isn’t an issue.”

“Well, that’s good. It’s kinda crazy that people don’t know what his house looks like, when you think of it.”

“What do you mean?”

She shrugs. “Well, we know it’s not far from here. And he’s lived there for… I don’t actually know how long. And I get that he doesn’t like, have friends over. Or women, or whatever. But how has no one sent a drone there to take pictures?”

The idea of Volik bringing women to his house makes my jaw ache.

“You okay?” Jenny furrows her brows at me.

“I’m…” I blow out a breath. “I agreed to move in.” She keeps watching me. “To his house. Today.”

Jenny blinks. “Okay.”

I stare at her. “That’s it? Just okay? No words of warning?”

She huffs. “Warning for what? He’s your mate, right? Fated by… the universe or whatever.”

I swallow and nod.

“Then…” Jenny shrugs. “Seems like a waste of time to fight it.”

“Even if I’ve known him for all of two days?”

Jenny shrugs. “Look, you can take your time. Feel it out. Get to know each other better first. Or you can jump into the deep end. It seems like, in the long run, you’ll probably end up with the same results. So I say do whatever you’re comfortable with. Whatever feels right.”

I watch my new friend, looking for a flaw in her logic.

She lifts her brows at me.

I press my lips together.

She grins.

I lift my hands to my cheeks. “This is crazy.”

“Meh. Sane is overrated.”

Chapter 50

Volik

The low-hanging clouds hide my arrival as I drop myself onto the roof of Bates Hall.

I have been away from my Nix too long already. So I did not waste the time jumping to the edge of town and walking.

And, as I look down, I know I made the right choice.

Press.