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goes off. A plume of smoke appears in his wake.
    “Sodium.” Marshall barrels in, tossing his briefcase rather violently over the counter. “Explosive in nature.” He strides toward the center of the room still wearing his dark trench coat, his eyes narrowed in on Logan. “How dare you get in my way.” His voice rides low, just this side of fury. Marshall scoops Logan up by the shirt and thrashes him against the wall. “Repeat what I just said to you,” he grits it through his teeth.
    “Sodium is explosive—like you.” Logan gives a placid smile at my favorite Sector, only at the moment his standing is teetering on oblivion. If he thinks he’s going to spend the entire next year making my boyfriends disappear and appear at random, only to accost them in his downtime, he’s got another thing coming. Did I just say, boyfriends ?
    Marshall drops him like a dirty dishrag and heads to the front.
    Do you know where I’ve been, Ms. Messenger? Marshall turns his back to the class and begins jotting something down on the board.
    “No,” I say it low, but Gage twitches his brows at me with curiosity.
    I’ve been to see the Justice Alliance. They weren’t too interested in my teaching hobby, thus the unexpected delay .
    Crap.
    I glance over at Logan as he makes his way back to his seat and take up his hand low by my thigh.
    Marshall said he was with the Justice Alliance, and he sounds good and pissed! I give Logan’s hand a squeeze. He knows damn well he’s responsible. He’s the one that threw him under the litigious celestialbus to begin with.
    I could have guessed . Logan gives a slow blink.
    Marshall turns around and openly glares at Logan.
    “Some properties have things they don’t wish for the other elements at the table to discover about them.” He takes a step forward, never breaking his stare with Logan, and I’m quick to cross my arms. No use in enraging an already ticked off Sector. In fact, I scoot a little into Gage to defuse the situation all together. “Some properties have the ability to self-destruct all on their own and when they panic, they try to take others down with them. Tsk, Tsk.” Marshall twitches a smile. “They usually only hurt themselves in the end.”
    Marshall gets to the task of class business by passing out textbooks, lab manuals and the syllabus.
    “Looks like a lot of work,” I say it under my breath.
    Gage steps in behind me. His warmth radiates over my body like a magnet pulling us together.
    “Let me help you. It’ll be fun, just like last year.”
    I glance over at him and smile just as Marshall clears his throat.
    “Each person is to choose a partner. You have one minute to decide, pair up so we can begin.” Marshall blinks a smile at me because he knows I can’t decide.
    Logan and Gage stand on either side of me. Logan latches onto my gaze and ticks his head as if inviting me to the other side of the room. I glance over at Gage, and his eyes widen with promise.
    I raise my hand and wave Marshall over.
    “Ms. Messenger?” He averts his gaze as if he knows what’s coming next.
    “Do you need a partner?” I’m desperate here.
    Marshall’s lips curve into a devilish grin as he observes both Olivers with a look of smug victory.
    Only in the bedroom , he muses. “I’m afraid you’ll need a peer, Ms. Messenger, to assist you with assignments.” I spoke with your mother . He dips his chin as if he’s trying to seduce me with my mother of all people.
    “Excellent.” I raise my brows. He knows I’m dying to hear what she has to say. “Oh! Is Ellis in this class?” Ellis could be the answer to all my problems.
    Why, yes, he is—truant at that . Marshall leers at me like it’s all my fault because it sort of is.
    “How is he?” I whisper. Logan and Gage lean in to hear the news as well.
    “In need of recuperation. And to answer your first question, indeed, Mr. Harrison is in this class.”
    “Great.” I lean back and take a breath. “That’s who my