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“You do know it was an invitation to go on a date with all three of us?”
“Wow. Okay.” She hovered by the door another minute then rose on tiptoe and kissed me on the cheek. “I think that will be okay. Where are we going so I know what to wear?”
An outfit. She was going to want to know what to wear, so we’d better have it be worth her trouble. I wasn’t sure what the guys had come up with, but I had at least one element of ourevening nailed down. Looking at our mate’s closed door, I shook my head. That could have gone way worse.
I found the other guys hunched over Adan’s laptop, frowning. He looked up when I came in. “We’ve figured out where we can take Karelis, but we have no way to get there.”
And this was my piece of the puzzle.
“I just ran into Karelis, and I told her the date was with all three of us.”
“She didn’t know?” Adan looked aghast. “I thought I—”
“And I mentioned it when we were… She really didn’t know?” Cas asked.
“I had a feeling, so I brought it up and she said okay. I’ve been feeling like I needed to talk to her about being mates, but it seemed important to start with mentioning we are all taking her out. So, where are we going?”
“Nowhere if we can’t find transportation.” Cas sank back onto the sofa. “You know that diner off the highway?”
“Yeah.”
Adan nodded. “Basically, it’s the only place we could come up with that we stood a chance of getting to and getting back within a few hours. But that’s only if we can get transportation. We considered a run—”
“But Adan was afraid she’d be all fixed up and resent having to carry her clothes in a bag.”
“A bag?” I tried not to laugh. “What female could resist that idea. Also, she’s already planning her outfit.”
“Aha! See?” Adan’s triumph lasted just a moment before he sank back down. “But with no way to get there, we’re back to square one. I suppose we could do a picnic on the roof.”
“I don’t think that’s a really great way for us to show our mate how we want to treat her,” Cas protested.
“Well, it’s not like the diner is going to be the most exciting thing she’s ever done,” Adan said. “Are we that bad as dates? We can’t even take her anywhere off campus without making her carry her clothes in her mouth in a bag? After she’s gone to all the trouble to pick something out? And she’s willing to go out with us even though she doesn’t seem to have a clue we are her mates. She deserves something wonderful.”
I plopped into the armchair and watched them go back and forth. They had a way of arguing with no malice, and I’d never yet seen them not come to a resolution in the past. But they hadn’t really given me a chance to tell them my news, and I had the key they needed. Finally, I stood up and struck a dramatic pose. “If you’re done?” I waited for them to stop and look at me.
“Yeah?” Adan asked. “Since we’re getting nowhere, I guess we are. We can’t ask our mate to shift and run cross country to the diner, so we’ll either have to do the picnic on the roof or nothing.”
“Or…maybe I have a way to make it all work.” Okay, I probably sounded smug. But that wasn’t the end of the world.
“And what is that?” Cas crossed his arms over his chest.
“One of the night janitors owes me a favor, and I asked him if I could use his car for an evening.”
“What did you do for him?” Adan asked.
“Is that what you got from what I was saying?”
“It’s not what I got. We have transportation. And we can take our mate out for an evening anywhere but this place. Great job, Blaze.” Cas hopped to his feet. “Now I’ve got to figure out what to wear.”
After we got done razzing him for that, we settled down to making plans for real. It was one thing to pick where to take her and to have a car, but it was no mean feat to get out of the academy for a whole evening without being noticed and expelled.
Chapter Thirteen
Karelis
“You know, I thought the boys giving you that phone was so romantic. They wanted to keep in touch with you and send you cute good morning messages. But it’s gone to your head. You’ve left me for another.” June draped her forearm over her forehead and let out a great, dramatic sigh. “Oh, anguish, you are my best friend now.”
I didn’t realize my best friend was so damned dramatic. Okay, I did, but this was a new level. A new, sighing, Shakespearian level. I cracked up laughing and made my own dramatic show of putting the phone away. “How can I make this up to you? Be gone with you, Anguish.”
