Apparently there was a hunter, Jack’s replacement, in his office, and he didn’t want him to see him collaborating with us.
I didn’t know why he was so worried. We're the ones hanging out with a hunter and a professor, no less. If I cared even a tiny bit about our reputation, I’d be worried it was completely tarnished.
Kyren smirked, a look that I knew all too well meant he was up to no good. Usually I was all for it, but this time, it just made me tired.
“I do not think you know our girl as well as you think you do,” Kyren antagonized back. “If you don’t recall, it was my doorstep she showed up on when she needed help. It was my blood she drank to heal. And it was me she was practically begging to take her afterwards.”
I sighed, placing my face in my hand.
We were supposed to be trying to find the people who attacked Jack so she could come back to the school, but so far, all we did was terrorize another student and spend hours spitting insults one another. We were getting nowhere fast.
“And yet,” Julian held his hands out before him, “you did not have her. Tell me? Is it because you can’t perform without seeing your sire’s face, or were you just not up to it?”
Kyren's shadows began to gather around him.
Nope. Not happening. This was my breaking point. I was not going to be the one to explain to Jack or the administration why these two were fighting each other.
I stepped between the two of them, the flat of my hand warding both of them off. “That’s enough. This bickering is getting us nowhere.”
“Mi lobo,” Kyren tried to appeal to me. “The hunter started it.”
“And I’m ending it,” I snapped back before either one of them could argue further.
The two of them didn’t say another word, but I could feel the heat of their glares as they bypassed me to each other.
I had to get us back on track before I lost control of the situation.
“Now,” I took a deep breath and blew it out, “what have we learned so far?”
It took a moment, but eventually Julian answered, all business now that I’d taken the heat out of their sails.
“There are two groups at the school who are opposed to the Durands or the council in general where we thought there was only one.”
“Gavin and Marianne are one,” Kyren supplied next.
“Yes,” Julian clipped, his jaw tight as he spoke. “However, from what you were able to pull out of the vampire, they are not the physically violent type.”
“That we know of,” Kyren added quickly. “He could be lying. They had offered me the first taste of her blood.” He licked his fangs with a wicked grin. “Of course, they don’t know I have already tastedla mia.”
Julian stepped forward, his eyes hard.
“You,” I pointed at Julian, “chill. And you?” I gave Kyren a disapproving look. “Stop antagonizing him.”
My love shrugged, his grin far too smug. “I was simply stating the truth. Something I don’t thatpendejoknows how to tell.”
“What did you just call me?”
“Gavin,” I quickly added, my eyes ping-ponging between the two of them. “He meant Gavin.”
Julian shook his shoulders out, violent energy radiating off of him, tickling my own beast awake.
“If you think he was lying, then maybe you should have spent more time torturing it out of him, huh?”
Kyren closed the distance, so I was the only thing between them. “If someone hadn’t stopped me, then maybe I would have.” He started cursing in Spanish so quickly I couldn’t make out everything.
“Would you two stop it?” I shoved a hand into each of their chests. “Look all of us love Jack and want to keep her safe, but I did not sign up to be werewolf in the middle. So if you two can’t cool it…”
Kyren muttered more Spanish under his breath.
