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Kasi and Jahrdran were nowhere to be seen.
This wasn’t unusual.
Chances were they were somewhere in the Shadow Realm together, possibly just beyond the shadows beneath Kasi’s bed.
I flung myself across said bed as Jasmine scrambled to a sitting position.
“You’re back soon. So how did tutoring go?”
“Terrible,” I grumbled.
“Really? Elliot has such a reputation for being in control of his dragon, I was sure he could teach you a lot aboutbeing a shifter.”
“It’s not that.” I flopped over onto my back and stared at the ceiling. “He told me we’re mates.”
The shriek Jasmine let out was high and piercing.
As the daughter of a siren, it literally shook the building.
“Oh, my goddess, Jasmine!” I exclaimed, hands over my ears, cringing.
A pounding came on the door at the same moment shadows streamed from under the bed and coalesced into Kasi and Jahrdran’s forms.
“What happened? What’s wrong?” Kasi and Jahrdran both looked as if they expected Zowen to leap out at them at any moment.
I groaned. “Nothing, just Jasmine being dramatic.”
Jasmine flung open the door at thesame moment and said cheerfully to whoever was on the other side, “Sorry, I just got the best news. We’ll try to keep it down in here, okay?” She slammed the door and whirled to face us. “Say it again, Mikaela, so that Kasi and Jahrdran can hear it too.”
I rolled my eyes. “Could youbeany more ridiculous?”
She thought about it a moment before finally concluding, “Yes, I honestly think I could.”
I had to chuckle at the serious way she said that, then said in a resigned voice, “Elliot tells me we’re mates.”
“Oh, is that all?” Jahrdran asked. “I thought you were going to tell us something surprising.”
Kasi slapped hisarm.
“What?”
She shook her head and said to me, “That’s good news, though, isn’t it?”
“He’s a chameleon dragon,” I said. “What if I die and he goes insane like Zowen?”
“The likelihood of that happening again is so statistically small as to be mathematically insignificant,” Jasmine said, pushing away from the door and sauntering back over to her bed.
Realizing Kasi and Jahrdran were standing because I was on Kasi’s bed, I stood and waved them to it while joining Jasmine on hers.
Jahrdran gave us a suspicious look. “Is this one of those girl-talk moments?”
Kasi grinned. “Probably so. Do you mind?”
“Nah. I’ll go find Elliot, see if he needs congratulations or consolations.”Jahrdran gave me a look that made me feel horribly guilty and sauntered out.
“So which is it?” Kasi asked as she settled on her own bed.
I winced.
