Chapter Fourteen

From behind the door the three girls walked out with guilty smiles. I'd noticed them around fifteen minutes ago in the middle of my spar against Joe.

"How did you know we were there even though you were fighting Guardian Maxwell?" The way they were peering so intently through the small windows in the door made it hard for me not to have noticed it. They were certainly not as discreet as they had perhaps hoped but I refrained from telling them that.

"You beat him without breaking a sweat…"

"Are those the things that increased your strength and speed?"

"No wonder you beat Drew Ozera."

"And I'm hungry so let's go." I urged as I towed them out of the training room. From the number of questions they seemed to have, we could be in the training room for forever! "See you later Guardian Maxwell."

"I'll see you in class tomorrow Valentine." Joe nodded with a professional glance to which I returned with an easy going grin.

"You guys are a bit early." I commented casually.

"We thought you might