Chapter 141

I shut my computer and packed it away. Everyone else was doing the same. "Amy, can you hang back a minute?" Rowan called, and I wanted to groan, but I just nodded and stayed in my seat.

Everyone walked by me, and a few stopped by the side of my desk. "Amy?"

I looked up and met the gamma from the beginning of the class, Steve. "Yeah?"

"We just wanted to apologize for earlier today."

I was shocked. "What?"

Steve just laughed. "We aren’t stupid enough to not realize that we spoke without knowing the full story. We judged you without knowing what you had to go through, of the decisions you had to make. I’m sorry for jumping to conclusions and calling you those names."

The other two nodded. "We are sorry, too. We don’t honestly know what goes into running a pack, but we know our alpha keeps us as safe as possible and probably had to make some of the same decisions you have had to make, and we wouldn’t want anyone judging him."

I sat back and stuck out my hand. "I appreciate it." They shook my hand and left, and I turned to find Rowan watching me with a look I couldn’t place.

He looked at a seat in front of his desk. "Come join me down here so I don’t have to yell."

"Sure." I gathered my stuff and walked down the stairs to the front of the room.

"I wanted to apologize for opening my mouth. I shouldn’t have put your business out in the open. I should have realized that most of these wolves are lower or unranked wolves and they wouldn’t understand what it takes to protect a pack."

"It’s honestly okay."

"But now that we are alone, how did everything go?"

I sat down. "I thought you were going to visit my father and his pack. I figured he would have given you all the details."

Rowan nodded. "I was going to, but then your father took off the day I was going to show up, and things came up on my end, so I skipped it." He wiped his face. "I didn’t realize you took this course."

"When we spoke, I hadn’t decided what course I was taking yet. This kind of landed in my lap." I smiled, staying a little ambiguous.

He got this look in his eyes; he was a very smart man. "Your father helped you pick the course?"

"Yeah." I smiled and winked. "He said it was a good way to make money from the humans and learn how to build my own security system for whatever pack I land in."

Rowan tilted his head. "Whatever pack you land in? Have you not found your mate yet?"

I sucked in a breath. I didn’t want to lie to this man, but I didn’t trust where we were. "No, but it’s complicated already."

"What do you mean?"

"Alpha Vince’s son, Brandon, was certain I was his mate. When I came back and he turned out to be wrong..." I trailed off and bobbed my head back and forth.

"He didn’t take it well?"

"Let’s just say he doesn’t think he’s wrong still." I chuckled.

"So, back at your father’s pack?" He urged, but I looked around the room and grimaced. He looked around, and I watched understanding hit his face. He ripped a paper out of his book and started writing.

‘Everything was handled.’ I smiled.

"It’s okay. I’ll get the story from your father." He handed me the paper, and I sat back down. "So, what are your goals for this semester?"

I laughed as I opened the note. My eyes widened when I read, ‘Call me tonight. We can discuss everything after you seal your room.’ I met his eyes, and he nodded. I just nodded back.

"I want to do everything I can. I want to make enough money to cover my expenses for next semester. So I need to start now."

"Expenses?"

"Yeah."

"How much are your expenses?" He furrowed his brow as I wrote my own note on his paper.

"About four million." He was taking a drink from his water bottle and choked.

"What, why?"

I scratched the back of my head. "I paid for every student to have ten grand on their food card. I don’t think it’s fair that any student would have to take time out of their day to work to pay for their meals. They should be automatic." I met his eyes. "I knew my dad could help for this semester, but I don’t want to depend on him going forward."

"You paid for every student to have ten grand on their food card?" I just nodded. "But they have a basic food plan included in their tuition."

"It was removed about ten years ago."

"WHAT?"