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“I think I’m fine right here. We’ve had a nice few days without you babysitting, little brother. Trust me, Ace has this.”

“Don’t be a dick,” KC informed him. “And Jonas is right, I’m safe. You need a shower anyway.” Then she wrinkled her nose, and it was downright adorable. “Me too, for that matter. Which means you definitely need to go.”

“Awww,” Lachlan protested almost playfully. I shifted my weight and moved to cut off his view of her.

“She needs a shower and you need to go,” I told him.

“Or what? You gonna toss me out on my ass?”

“Yes,” I said. “Happily.”

KC chuckled. “You don’t have to throw him out, he’s going.”

Was he? I raised my brows, but Lachlan let out a long sigh. “Fine, I promised to not be insufferable today.”

“No, you lost the bet, which means youcan’tbe insufferable today.” The ease with which she shifted tones and handled Lachlan worried me.

Raising his hands in a gesture of surrender, Lachlan backed toward the door. “We running in the morning? Or you want a down day before classes start?”

“Maybe,” KC answered, but her distracted tone didn’t assure me she was listening to either of us.

“Right, I’ll talk to you later then.” Irritation flared in his eyes as I followed him to the door. But then he jerked his head to the hall with a significant look at me, so I followed him out and closed the door behind us. “Keep an eye on her and don’t accept any invitations this week.”

I always kept an eye on her. “Why?”

“Wait, look at that, you do know how to use words.”

I ignored the little dig and just stared at him.

“You got the invitations.” It wasn’t a question.

I shrugged. “I threw them out.” The stupid secret society thing held nothing of interest for me.

“Ace hasn’t.”

Shock twisted its grip on my spine. “No?” We hadn’t really talked about it. She’d actually clipped one of the invitations to my door. I’d recognized the riddle and the seal. Knots and Chains was a popular rumor. Only members knew who the other members were.

They’d scouted me back in my freshman year. It had been an interesting test to answer the puzzles. Then shit went sideways and all communication just stopped. I guessed they didn’t want me after all, or maybe Lachlan got annoyed at them for scouting me.

We hadn’t discussed it then. “Why don’t you want her to join?”

“It’s not about whether she joins or not,” he said, keeping his voice low and one eye on the room across the hall. Yeah. The cunt still lived there. Great. I liked Aubrey though.

She was great for KC.

“Then what is it?”

“Find me later,” he said. “We need to talk privately. In the meanwhile, keep an eye on Ace and don’t let her go anywhere alone.”

With that cryptic warning, he stalked off.

I stared after him for a moment, then looked back at the door across the hall. How long had all three of them been back on campus?

Back inside the suite, I glanced to where KC still sat reading through the music. She’d stripped off her sweatshirt in my absence and pulled out her guitar. The fact she was playing when I walked in trapped me in place. I closed the door as quietly as I could and listened.

Then she began to sing the lyrics, sparing me a brief look before dropping her gaze back to the music. Three bars later, I stepped forward.

“Drop it another half-octave.”

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