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Rion and Aksel are standing in front of me. A duo I would never expect to see working together.
Aksel rolls his eyes.
“Willson, we did something,” Aksel starts.
My heart rate picks up. What the hell did they do? I can’t imagine it’s anything good considering how nervous they are to tell me.
“You didn’t include me?” Felix says from next to me at the table.
He pouts his lip and puts on his best sad face.
“Correct,” Aksel says without even looking at Felix.
“Alright, just tell me what it is. You’re freaking me out,” I say.
Rion looks giddy with excitement as he bounces on his toes.
“We thought, if you wanted to, that since we are still so close to Brickstone University during this assignment-”
Rion cuts Aksel off. “You can go back and finish your credits.”
I freeze. They’ve shocked me into silence.
Never in a million years did I see this coming. It’s not even something I’ve talked to Aksel about but clearly Rion did.
My first instinct is to lash out in embarrassment that they’ve all been talking about my lack of degree behind my back.
“I think that’s a great idea, but only if you want to.” Felix rubs my back.
My hackles lower as I realize it hasn’t been all of them. Felix was left out and if I had to guess Blaze and Griffyn were too.
“That was a different me,” I say softly.
“It doesn’t have to be. Just because you were changed into a vampire doesn’t mean you have to give up your dreams. You’re still Anna and you get to choose what that means,” Rion says.
Aksel kneels in front of me. “We will help you achieve whatever you want. If your English degree no longer satisfies you, then you can start over on something else. It doesn’t matter if you have a degree at all. I will get you a job anywhere you want. But, I think it’s important to you that you earn this degree and connect who you were with who you are.”
I blink back tears. Damn, these men and their ability to turn me to mush in seconds. They’re being so supportive. It’s hard to turn them down.
Maybe it would be for the best to give it a try. If it feels wrong, I don’t have to keep going.
“It might be a way to heal, Kitten,” Felix says.
Slowly, I nod.
“I’ll give it a try but I make no promises.”
Rion and Felix cheer like they just won a championship game.
Aksel stares at me intently before a smile takes over his face. His blue and brown eyes both sparkle as he stares at me.
Of course, the next second he is serious again.
“We will need precautions to be safe, of course. Two people will be with you in your classes at all times. I took the liberty of looking at how many credits you need to graduate and it can be fulfilled with two upper-level English classes. Their summer session starts next week.”
I roll my eyes. “Of course you’ve already figured it all out.”
He did that for me. To make me happy. This complicates his mission and he’s still willing to do it.
