adjusted his button-down shirt as he glanced at me. He strolled over and stood next to me. He leaned into me and whispered. "You look normal."
His vanilla scent was oddly comforting. I grinned at him and shook my head. "Don't be fooled."
A sly grin spread across his face.
"So, you must be Tripp." Kai held his hand out to him. "I'm Kai. Okay, I think we're ready to get the tour going now."
"Nice to meet you." He grinned and shook Kai's hand.
"All right, so we're off." Kai pointed to the restaurant that Bree and I had eaten at the night before. "This is the only restaurant onsite. If you want something beyond this, you'll have to go off campus to get it. However, they have a very wide menu and serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner."
He turned and headed to the other end of the building. "This building serves as the athletics part of your curriculum. The bottom floor is for fighting and defense training. The second floor is for extracurriculars such as ballet, dance, and art. The top floor is for the council members only. This is where they meet when they come to the school. It allows them to also watch the most promising students while they are in the physical arena."
"Do they not care about academics?" My parents had always stressed how being an alpha was important in both smarts and brute strength. It's what made for the best type of leader especially when they had a good heart.
"Why would they care about that?" Robyn laughed like it was the funniest joke she’d ever heard. "All you have to be is strong enough to win. You can have your beta or something be the smart one."
Wow. I was kind of speechless. "If all the council cares about is fighting, then how could a student be the leader that their pack needs? Beat everyone into submission?" Oh, wait ... I still had something to say.
"Well, yeah." Her brows furrowed and she tilted her head like she wasn't sure if that was an actual question.
"Don't waste your time on her." Tripp shook his head and sighed. "She's too dumb to get it."
"What the fuck does that mean?" Robyn marched over and lifted her chin in the air.
"It means you think brawn always wins." Tripp shook his head and wrinkled his nose. "That's not always the case in the real world."
"That's enough." Kai's voice laced with power as his eyes glowed. "This happens every damn year. You get all these freshmen together, trying to get to the top immediately. It will not happen during this hour. Do you understand? I don't give a fuck what you do once you're done here, but you'll show some self-control or I'll make you."
"Got it." Robyn stumbled a few steps back, and her friends caught her.
"Hey, I'm cool." Tripp lifted both hands in the air. "I think," he said as he pointed to me and then paused. "What's your name?"
"Mia."
"I was only agreeing with what Mia said." He dropped his hands back down to his sides. "So that's it."
"Well, Mia." Kai's eyes returned to their normal color when they met mine. "They do care about grades. If they find a promising alpha they could use for new regional positions that open up or special projects, then they request their transcripts."
"Got it." At least they were looking at them.
Our small group followed Kai as he headed toward the other building.
Honestly, I wasn't sure how much longer this thing could actually go. There were only two buildings and a stadium besides the dorms. I was thinking I'd be waiting for Bree instead of it being the other way around.
"All right." Kai walked in front of the massive brick building that had tall, wooden front doors. The logo of the wolf howling at the moon was etched into each door. "This building is for all the other things. We're talking shifter history, human history, mathematics, chemistry ... Basically everything that can be taught inside a book."
"Those sound like human classes?" Olivia's mouth dropped open, revealing the huge wad of gum she'd been chewing.
I almost gagged on my own spit when I saw it. She reminded me what a walking STD would look like, and that was saying something. Wolf shifters couldn't catch them.
"I wouldn't call them human classes." Kai bobbed his head for a second. "With the exception of human history. Chemistry, Math, English, and all those other subjects we need to know."
"But I thought we were just learning