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smirked.   “We’ll see about that.”
    Her jaw dropped, and I stepped around her,
feeling almost giddy from the dirty look she shot me, and I went straight for
my locker.   I know it was a horrible
thing to think, but honestly, I was absolutely thrilled (and royally pissed
off) that one of the she wolves was
considering me a threat, even if I really had no clue why.

 
    ~ AIDAN ~

 
    Jade was livid when
she stormed past me and it was the cutest thing I had ever seen.   It was also the most confusing thing I had
ever seen.   She shot me (or maybe — hopefully
— it was to Dominic) an ice-cold glare.   It was penetrating, and commanding, and my
inner-wolf clawed at my stomach, wanting to run after her and make her happy.
    “I know what you’re thinking,” Dominic
said.
    My blood ran cold.   He couldn’t know that she was making me
crazy, none of them could.   If they knew
… “What’s that?” I asked, glad that my voice sounded uncaring, and I glanced
his way.
    He laughed.   “That she’s adorable when she’s mad.”
    “That she is,” I agreed, watching as Jade
disappeared around the corner and Erika scowled after her.   My heart started to beat again, and the knot
in my stomach loosened.   He didn’t have a
clue.   Who was that girl? The question echoed through my mind again,
relentlessly.   I just didn’t get it.   I could take down an alpha, command an entire
pack of twenty-nine werewolves to submit and grovel at my feet, but this … this
… human girl could make me cringe with just one glance.
    Erika turned to us with a big grin on her
face and started over.   I snapped my gaze
to meet hers and said, “Don’t you have somewhere to be?”   It came out harsher than I had intended, but
it worked, and without a word, she backed up a step and then took off down the
hall.
    “Stay away from her,” Dominic said,
casually, as if he was talking about the weather, and not really trying to tell
me what to do.   I had heard the line more
than I could count in the last forty-eight hours, and each time I heard it, it
only made her all the more interesting.
    “That’s her call to make, not yours,” I
retorted, keeping my tone just as light.   He still refused to enlighten me about his obsession with Jade, and
spending the weekend following her around hadn’t helped me figure it out
either.   The most I had gotten from that
was confirmation that she missed him.
    Dominic pushed off from the locker, and
stretched his arms lazily over his head.   He smiled a little.   “She wouldn’t
even look at you if she knew who you were.”
    The second bell rang, signaling that we
were late for homeroom, and we started down the hallway, neither of us in any
rush to get to class.   “Why are you so
concerned about her?” I asked.
    “I’m not,” he said, cutting me a murderous
sideways look.
    I chuckled.   “Not sure if I believe that this is your I could care less face.”
    Dominic stopped just outside our
homeroom.   The morning announcements
began, and the distorted buzz of our principal’s voice droned through the old
speakers.   “She’s lost enough to this
pack,” he said in a low whisper, just barely audible over the
announcements.   “She doesn’t need to lose
more than she already has.”   His voice,
his body language, his scent, everything about him said he was guilty.   I just wished I knew why.
    I pulled the classroom door open and gestured
for him to go in.   “You’re really going
to go through with this class stuff, aren’t you?” he asked with a huff.   “You know I don’t need a babysitter.”
    I grinned.   “Think of it as bonding time.”

CHAPTER 10

 
 
    ~ JADE ~

 
    Erika watched
me.   I felt her eyes burning a trail
along my back in homeroom, and then in English, and still in Math.   Every move I made, she was there,
watching.   And it was starting to drive
me batty.   But she wasn’t the only one
that watched me.   So did Dominic.
    And I