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"I know you’re her High Priestess and all, but she’s gonna throw a et her to move down there," Stevie Rae said

Asa fit, I knew Stevie Rae was right I was trying to weigh whether it would be worth the fight or not when Aurox spoke up

"I’ll stay with the fledglings," he said

I blinked in surprise at him "But you just said you wanted to room with Damien because the other kids looked at you in a weird way"

"That doesn’t mean I want them to be without protection I rarely sleep, so I could easily watch over the able to help you" He hesitated, and then added, "Your grandht that I, in turn, help you"

His aze until Stark’s voice intruded "Sounds good And you’re right You do need to help us out"

"How about this--I’ll go with you, so we’ll still be roo over aard situations"

"He does," Rephaireed "Damien helped the kids accept me I’ll bet he can do the sa for you to say!" Daht how nice it was to see him happy

"So that’s settled," Stark said "Okay, Z, are you al? You said you wanted to check on Aphrodite, and I need to see Darius--he’ll probably knohere Dragon’s storage rooave the rest oflook, but it didn’t see at Aurox, Aurox sendingthe three of us I gulped o!"

"The rest of us can round up our red fledglings," Stevie Rae said "Since Dragon used it to store weapons, it would figure that the basement is close to the field house How ’bout we ood," I said Stark put his arm possessively around ot to the cafeteria door he paused and, in full sight of everyone, pulled me into his arue and everything

Okay, I absolutely like kissing Stark, but I’m not into PDA I mean, I like to hold Stark’s hand in public I even usually like it when he puts his arm around y, spider monkey way), but we don’t make out in public Ever So my face felt really hot with mortification when he unlocked his lips froeda look over his shoulder at the table and, of course, at Aurox

I wanted to smack hiled myself fro He just gave me his cute, cocky snored the hot anger building inside , it would just cause a fight between us, and we had waylike a jealous jerk

Plus, I wasn’t interested in Aurox Stark would figure that out pretty soon and, hopefully, stop with his possessiveness

But you are interested in Heath, a terrible little voice whispered inside me And Heath’s soul is shared with Aurox

I re voice that Stark was my Warrior, my Guardian, my lover, and my friend

And what is Heath?

Dead! I told h I tried to shutwithin me

CHAPTER FIVE

Zoey

"She still sleeps," Darius said, keeping his voice low and closing the door to Aphrodite’s dorm room softly behind hi weird standing out in the hall and whispering

"She will be" Darius said "Last night was difficult for her"

"How drunk did she get?" Stark asked sardonically

"Her father was murdered on our school’s ca over," Stark said

"And now she hter and grow taller

Ah, crap That’s all I needed--Stark and Darius butting heads

"Rest is a good idea" Ibetween them "I remember how terrible I felt after my mom was killed You remember, too, don’t you, Stark?" I asked pointedly