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Okay… That was weird…
I looked around the courtyard again, making sure no obvious threat lingered in the shadows.
Nothing.
Besides Wolf, who had re-focused his attention on me once more.
“I’ll be right back,” I said to Lanson and Ashlani before taking off in his direction. His brows furrowed even more as I approached, weaving through the now-mingling crowd of students and teachers before stopping in front of him with a hand on my hip.
“Do you have a problem with me?” I demanded.
Amusement flashed over his features. “Many problems, actually. Why do you ask?”
“Because you’ve been glaring at me ever since I got here.”
His jaw tightened. “How do you know I’m not glaring at those friends of yours?”
“They’re not my friends,” I argued, hating that I suddenly felt defensive enough to say anything.
“They sure seem like it, Huntress. I thought you were smarter than that.”
“They’re not threats.”
He tsked, “You just met them.”
“Well, I just met you too, and so far, you’ve been more of a threat to me than anyone else here.”
His expression changed—torturously slow—from his grumpy scowl into an arrogant smirk. “You forget I saved your life from those vampyres not too long ago. Is that what makes me a threat?”
“You absolutely didnotsave my life,” I spat.
Hells, Huntyr. Are you really letting him get to you?He was trying to rile me up. It was so fucking obvious.
I took a long breath, attempting to calm my rising temper. “You are a threat because you’re a fuckingangel,clearly the only angel here, and probably the only angel most of these students have ever seen. I’m trying to keep my head down, and you’re drawing way too much attention to me.”
“Is that so?” he retorted, tilting his head. “Because I believe you were the one who walked over here to me.”
“Only because you were staring at me!”
He smirked. “Allegedly.”
A groan of frustration escaped me before I ran my hands down my face and started backing away. “Just stay away from me, okay?”
“Sure thing, roommate.”
I spun on my heel and marched back through the crowd, acutely aware of the eyes that now lingered on me.
Wolf was right. I was the one who had marched over to him. It was a mistake I wouldn’t be making again. My emotions could not impede getting through this academy. Through this mission.
Ashlani and Lanson talked in hushed voices as I re-joined them.
“Oh good,” Ashlani chimed. “You’re back.”
“Sorry about that. I had to have a word with my… with him.”Notmy roommate.
“Do you two know each other?” Lanson asked, scrutinizing my face. “I didn’t know angels still came here.”
“No, no. We only just met, but I’m the unlucky one who was paired in his room, I suppose.”
