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“No, but we’re the hunters who were supposed to come here to solve this murder. Instead, a first-year student figured it out first.”
I shook my head. “I stumbled over the body. I keep ending up having to try to figure these things out, and I don’t know why.”
Reo’s eyes narrowed. “No one’s told you anything?”
“No. And it’s beginning to make me angry. Because I’m pretty sure everyone here knows something I don’t.” I glared at him suspiciously.
He shrugged. “I don’t know anything more than you do.” That grin of his spread to cover his entire face. “But I’ll see what I can find out while I’m here.”
“While you’re here?” I found myself smiling back at him for no real reason except he was so pretty when he smiled that I didn’t want him to stop.
“Yeah. The Hunters’ Council feels that the Academy is in some amount of danger as long as there’s a doppelgänger around who can take on so many students’ shapes. Laxmi and I have been assigned here for the foreseeable future.”
“So does that mean you don’t want to hear what I might have to say about your brother?”
He leaned forward, put his chin in his hands, and turn the wattage on that smile up to eleven. “Oh, I definitely want to hear more. I just think you can take your time telling me now.
I cracked up laughing and then looked up to find Tony and Souji standing together outside the window of the diner. Tony was scowling, and Souji was staring at me unblinkingly.
“Oh, no. That is not okay.” I stood up and drop my napkin on the table.
Marching outside, I pointed at the two of them. “You two need to quit acting like you have some kind of claim on me. Souji, I will talk to your brother as often as I want to. Tony, I’m talking to my hunting partner’s brother and an official appointee of the Hunters’ Council. So you can both quit. Nobody gets to make any kind of comment, verbal or otherwise, on what I do with my time.”
I turned around and stomped back into the diner. Seconds later, the doorbell jingled a second time. I turned around to see Angelica strolling in behind me.
I froze, worried for a second that it might be the doppelgänger. But she grinned called out across the diner, “See? I told you. You can out-badass both of them. You got this, girlfriend.”
With a snicker, I dropped into the booth across from Souji’s brother.
“Now,” I said, “what were you saying about helping me figure out why everyone keeps acting like I’m so special?”
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IVY HEARNE SPENDS HER days dreaming of heroes and monsters and the heroines who tame them. She writes young adult paranormal romance and urban fantasy, and fully expects to find herself someday transported to a world of fantasy and magic, where her snarky tendencies will win her the respect of the realm—and probably a crown, too.
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