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worried about what her next move may be. But she hasn’t done anything to bother me yet, and I’m not really sure why that is.”

“Honestly, I’m not sure why she’s even here. She’s an ancient. You can’t tell me she hasn’t already gone to a werewolf boarding school before now. The reason is clearly just because of you.” Vince paused. “What’s even more peculiar is the fact that Eric is here, too. He’s her twin, so if Iris is an ancient, then he obviously is an ancient, too.”

“That’s a good point,” I murmured. I hadn’t really given any thought to that before now. Of course, I had already figured out that Iris was only at Werewolf Academy because I was a student here, but I hadn’t really given any thought as to why Eric was here.

An idea hit me then, just as Vince said, “You know what I think you should do?”

“What?”

“I think you should talk to Eric.”

Vince had completely read my mind.

I had a feeling that Eric held the answer to something; I just wasn’t sure what.

Chapter 10

I never bumped into Eric on campus, but it didn’t take me long to find him. I thought about the first—and only—time I had run into him and headed back there the following afternoon after classes had ended for the day.

Sure enough, I spotted a wave of strawberry blonde hair towards the back of the library.

He was hunched over a tall pile of books, slowly flipping through one as I sat down next to him.

His light blue eyes flitted over to meet mine, and he looked surprised to see me. “Raven. Hi.”

“Hey. Listen, I was wondering if I could talk to you.”

“You want to talk to me?” Eric just stared back at me with wide eyes.

It took me a moment to realize that he thought of me as some sort of celebrity. After all, he was one of the only people on this campus who actually knew that I was Princess Fallyn.

“Yeah, it’s about your sister.”

“Well, I don’t know how I can help you there,” Eric said, quickly shaking his head. “Iris doesn’t even speak to me. She’s pissed at me.”

“Is it because you followed her here?” I asked.

He glanced around the library. “She’s here? I don’t see her.”

“I didn’t mean to the library.”

His eyebrows shot up. “Then where did you mean?”

“Werewolf Academy.”

Eric spun a ring, which had a large ruby gemstone set in a thick gold band, around his finger nervously. “We’re both werewolves, Raven. I didn’t follow her here. We both needed to our education.”

But he didn’t meet my eyes as he spoke, which confirmed for me that I was right. Eric really had followed Iris here.

“You can cut the shit, Eric. I know you’re both ancients. You both would have received your education long before now,” I said as quietly as possible, not wanting anyone else in the library to overhear what I was saying. Even though I knew they were ancients, everyone didn’t need to know that.

“How did you know we’re ancients? Iris told me you didn’t remember your past life,” Eric whispered to me.

“I’ve figured some things out—” I started to say. But at that moment, my cell phone began to ring from my purse.

Shit. It would be just my luck that my phone would start going off in the middle of a library.

I pulled my phone out and then glanced down at the caller ID.

It was him.

My heart pounded against my chest as I sent the call to voicemail.

“Listen, I can’t talk to you here,” Eric said, glancing around nervously.

“Why?” I asked.

“It’s not safe. Iris has people watching me. If she knew I was talking to you about this… Well, let’s just say that it wouldn’t be good for either of us.” He paused for a long moment. “Let’s meet somewhere off campus later tonight. There’s this bar.” He wrote an address down on a piece of paper and then tore it off for me. “Meet me there around nine, okay?”

“Okay,” I agreed with a nod.

Eric scooped up the pile of books then and gathered his things.

As he headed out of the library, I wondered what I would learn later.

“There’s no reason you can’t just come with me,” I told Aiden as we headed out of the house to meet Eric that night.

Well, I was meeting Eric. Aiden felt that he needed to use an invisibility spell before we met up with him.

“I just think he’ll give you more info without me around,” Aiden explained as