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“Foster, I’m sure you are confused as to the reason I asked you here. All of you probably to some extent.” She waves a hand to us absently and a chill runs down my spine, reminding me of the way it felt to be hugged by her. I’m not even sure how to describe the feeling, almost how I’d imagine it would be like being hugged by a malleable human ice cube. “It’s because I have a job for all of you.”
That gains mine and everyone else’s attention. “What?” Oscar blurts, then clears his throat, mumbling an apology.
Ghost Girl—Aurora—The Headmaster, as I should start calling her—waves his apology off and walks over to her desk. “Well as you all saw, me taking this position was rather public and abrupt. All the professors were in attendance. They, along with others, are corrupt. There are lots of them, students and professors alike. My job for you all is to clean up my Academy, because I’m not going to lift the portal lockdown until every single corrupt soul on the grounds has either been captured or is in the ground, preferably mangled beyond repair.” She pauses to shuffle a stack of paperwork that’s on her desk and I let what she just said sink in.
Excitement bubbles up in the pit of my stomach and I bite the inside of my cheek. It’s probably not a normal response to being asked to do something like this, but I can’t help it. Just the thought of it has me buzzing with adrenaline.
She looks up at us again, lips pressing into a flat line. “I’m sure you’re wondering why I can’t just take care of it myself. Two reasons, one is that when I magically swore into the Academy’s barrier to agree to be the next Headmaster, I took an oath to never harm any students or faculty. Two is that I simply won’t have the time to figure out who is corrupt, while running the school, and getting the education back on track at the same time, but you guys will. I’m going to offer you this as an after hours extracurricular activity that goes towards your final score at the end of the year. Plus, it’s work experience for you if you choose to take Ezra up on his offer.”
My eyes jump to hers in surprise and she offers me a cheeky grin. “While you had my magic inside of you, I wasn’t just around when Ethan left his gifts for you. I was sort of magically attached to you and around you a lot.” I grimace at that revelation, cheeks heating, and she laughs but doesn’t tell me if she was present for any of my more intimate times with the guys. How fucking awkward. I’m all for them watching, but preferably no one else. Hmm, that’s definitely something to explore once I get the chance to tell them that I’m ready to try the whole relationship thing.
Aurora perches her butt on the edge of her desk, still smiling. “Plus, Foster and Corin, you both have plenty of experience with this sort of work, being lackeys for the SFBI of course,” she casually reveals.
Foster mutters a curse, eyes snapping to me and all I can do is watch him eyes wide, but Corin actually laughs. It’s a loud booming laugh, before he points at Foster once he’s settled. “I was worried you were a plant for the Drákon group because of the whole secretive, yet knowledgeable thing you had going on,” Corin explains, shaking his head while still smiling. Meanwhile I’m stunned silent, brain blank. Aurora’s words echoing through my head.
Foster relaxes a little for the first time since entering the office and scrubs a hand over his face. “You work for a branch of the agency too?”
Corin nods, and Foster groans before refocusing on all of us, his eyes snagging on my expression for a moment before settling on the Headmaster. Though whatever he sees on my face has his eyebrows drawing down in concern. “So are we going to accept or…?” he asks.
I bite my lip, and decide to shove aside my emotions on missing the fact that Foster is a plant. I force my mind to stay on the topic of Aurora’s offer and I cross my fingers at my side for luck, hoping everyone wants to do it. “I say we take a vote,” I add, forcing myself to contain my excitement at the prospect of working on something like this. “All for working with our new Headmaster, raise a hand.”
Every single one of us puts a hand in the air, including Foster, and I laugh, finally letting the excitement bubble over. Other confusing shit aside, doing this is going to be amazing. I let out a whoop and do a little shimmy, drawing a few chuckles from the guys. “It looks like we’re going to have an interesting next few months,” I declare, magic crackling happily inside me in agreement.
