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TWENTY-TWO
We were exactlyfifteen minutes early for my class, and the room was almost completely empty when we walked in. Ford led me up to the very top row and into the furthest corner of the room.
When we sat down there, I immediately felt better. There were walls to both of my sides, and Ford was the only thing between me and them. We’d probably piss someone off by taking their seat, but it was better to piss someone off than to go wolf and eat them.
I pulled up the power point for the day’s lecture while the room filled. Ford’s hand remained on my leg as people settled in, and he only tensed slightly when a guy sat down next to me. I scooted a bit closer to Ford when that happened, and he relaxed for the most part.
My wolf didn’t try to come out once.
Not one damn time.
Why hadn’t I considered sitting in the back earlier?
I managed to focus for almost the entirety of the class, only getting distracted when Ford’s fingers gripped my thigh harder because the guy next to me shifted positions a bit and was sort of leaning toward me.
Rather than going to my typical study room after the class ended, we headed right to my next class and sat down on a bench just a few feet from the door. It wasn’t very comfortable, but we sat pressed close together and both managed to get a little work done. The moment the other class cleared out of the room, we headed inside, and immediately went back up to the furthest corner of the room.
“This was such a good idea,” I whispered to Ford. “Thank you.”
“It’s the least I can do, considering I’m the reason we’re in this situation,” he said with a soft chuckle. “I should’ve come up with it sooner, but I’ve been distracted.”
“I’m pretty distracting,” I teased him.
“The most distracting.” He brushed a kiss on my forehead as the first people started to filter into the room.
The restof the day passed similarly, and when we returned to my dorm that night, I felt so relieved it wasn’t even funny. I’d actually learned things, which was a damned miracle after the way the last few weeks had gone.
Since I knew there wasn’t a chance my wolf could handle staying in the dorms like we’d planned, we started packing as soon as we got back after my final class.
While we packed, Ford called Elliot to see if he could come pick up my car to drive it to Moon Ridge, because my wolf still wasn’t letting Ford out of my sight. Elliot promised to grab Rocco and be there in half an hour. They got there right on time, and they brought extra boxes.
“Glad to see you’ve come to your senses about moving out of this tiny little room,” Rocco grinned, grabbing two of my suitcases and a duffel bag. Elliot grabbed the biggest suitcase and the big plastic storage bin full of my clothes.
“Eh. My wolf made the decision, really,” I admitted as I pulled the door open for them while Ford continued packing my boxes for me.
The man was meticulous about packing things in a particular way, and I was all for letting him do it however he wanted because it meant I wasn’t packing alone.
“I think Ford’s real love is organization,” Elliot teased, following Rocco out of the room. Ford flipped him off over his shoulder, and both other guys grinned. I bit back a smile of my own, because they were kind of right.
Rocco stopped in his tracks as a door closed down the hall, and he sniffed the air. “Do you smell that?”
My wolf immediately rose to the surface. “Smell what?”
“You must have some kind of air freshener going out here. It smells fucking incredible.”
My eyes went round.
Elliot sniffed. “I don’t smell anything.
“I don’t smell it either,” I agreed, shooting Ford a wide-eyed glance. The same thing had happened to Ford, when he smelled me in mine and Teagan’s room before we really met.
His lips curved upward, but he continued packing.
I figured we probably shouldn’t interfere if Rocco was smelling whichever girl he was going to mate with… even if I really, really wanted to.
“We’ll be back for more in a minute,” Rocco called behind him. “Everything should fit in the bed of Elliot’s truck.”
“Sounds good,” I called back, shutting the door behind them and spinning back toward Ford. “You smelled me before you realized we were mates, didn’t you?” I demanded.
