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“Right,” Mikaela drawled.

“Yeah, but it doesn’t look like he’s overyouyet,” Kasi said.

“What are you talking about?”

“Are you serious?”she asked.

“What?”

“That whole scene back there?His serpents posturing in front of a dragon?Him yelling at you for taking a risk?”

“Not to mention how his snakes grew like six feet and covered you from head to toe in their effort to proclaim to everyone around them that you belong to them,” Mikaela said.

“Yeah,” Kasi drawled.“Classic mating behaviors.”

“Oh, don’t be ridiculous!”I exclaimed.“His snakes just like me, that’s all, and they were probably freaked out because of the dragons.But Vorzak?He ignored me every day for two and a half years!There’s no way he’s my fated mate.”

“Well, it’s not like we’re guaranteedintelligentmates,” Mikaela said.“I mean, someone has to take the stupid ones, right?”

Kasi snickered.“And look on the bright side.At least he’s got a smokin’ hot body.”

CHAPTER5

I was still grinningover Mikaela declaring Vorzak stupid the next afternoon as I headed for my Extreme Water Sports Ed class.

I’d managed to avoid Vorzak for almost twenty-four hours at that point and I was actually in a pretty good mood.I’d calmed down the afternoon before during Culinary Arts, my second favorite class.

Good food was always a cure for a siren’s temper.

Then, this morning, I’d attended the Art of the Poison Garden and I now had many, many ideas of how to get even with Vorzak if he kept annoying me.

I’d actually spent some time looking up what might cause gastric distress for a human, but that wouldn’t impact a snake’s constitution at all.There was an entire section in our textbook on poisons for supernaturals, ones that merely debilitated all the way up to those that killed.

I was particularly interested in the section dedicated to gorgons.

I didn’t want to kill Vorzak, of course, but I certainly wouldn’t mind torturing him a little.

I was busy imagining scenarios involving pain for Vorzak the man and entertainment for his adorable serpents when I entered the pool room and saw Vorzak standing next to the Olympic-sized pool.

My amusement immediately died.

I stamped toward him and snapped, “What are you doing here?You’re not in this class!”

He grinned at me.“I am now.Just transferred in.”

“From where?”I snarled.

“Extreme Sports.My snakes love the water.Thought it’d be good for them to play in the pool a little.”

“Playin the pool?”I demanded.“You have no idea what you’ve signed up for, do you?”

He shrugged.“It can’t be any worse than Sports Ed.”

“Youidiot.It’s Sports Edunderwater.”

“So?”

“So, do you have a plan for how you’re going tobreatheunderwater?”