Chapter 12

Lilly

The moment the door closed, and my new roommate and her family had walked down the hall, I bolted into the bedroom which was directly across from mine on the other side of the lounge room. Jumping into the air like I had seen Spiderman do in heaps of movies, I launched myself on top of the sleeping form of my sister Leah, landing on her like a human cannonball.

Leah sat up in fright, screaming at me, “Lilly for the love of God, have you lost your ever-loving mind?”

Ignoring her question, I cried, “You guys will never guess what has just happened!”

“All I can say is for you to wake me up in this fashion, someone had better have died,” Leah snapped, clearly not impressed with my choice of morning wake ups for her.

“Well, we all might die in our sleep tonight, does that count?” I retorted, looking at her expectantly as I awaited her answer.

“Just what the hell is that supposed to mean?” my other sister Julie asked from her bed on the other side of the room.

“I just met our new roommate and her family. They are rogues,” I told them, grinning at the fact that I had known something before the two of them for a change.

“What?” they both cried in unison, sitting up in their beds and looking horrified at my revelation.

“You heard me! So, what do you think? Was it worth waking you up in that fashion over?” I taunted Leah.

“Lilly, knock it off, this is serious,” Julie chided, sitting up more in her bed, leaning against the headboard, and still looking concerned.

“We should ring dad, immediately,” Leah said, ignoring me and picking up her cell phone. Looking at me she asked, “Where’s the rogue?”

“She went downstairs with her family,” I replied, shrugging my shoulders.

Nodding at that information, Lilly dialled our father’s number putting the phone on speaker so Julie and I could hear the conversation. It didn’t take long for him to answer. “Leah, hello love,” he greeted.

“Hi Daddy, I have something to tell you,” Leah replied.

“Let me guess, you have found your mate and he is an alpha, so you will be abandoning my pack immediately?” my father said in a teasing tone, making Leah laugh.

“No, no, that’s not it. We might have a bit of a problem here at the university, though,” Leah told him.

“What kind of problem?” he asked, suddenly sounding his usual alpha self.

“We have a new roommate, I haven’t met her yet, but Lilly has, and she said that the girl is a rogue,” Leah told him.

“You’re boarding with a rogue?” he asked, sounding a mixture of shocked and disapproving.

“We didn’t choose this Daddy, the school handles these things not us girls, you know that better than anyone,” Leah replied, trying to remain diplomatic.

“No love, I understand. You’re right, I’m sorry. This is just a shock for me, that’s all,” he explained.

“Well, what do you want us to do about this? Lilly is totally convinced that we will all be murdered in our sleep tonight,” Leah replied, looking at me. I poked my tongue out at her, and I was rewarded with a wink and a smile from her.

“I’m sure that it won’t come to that love. Just monitor the rogue and check in with me daily. If anything happens, you call me immediately, understood?” he asked.

“Yes, Daddy,” we all replied in unison.

When Leah hung up the phone, we got up off her bed and made our way into my bedroom. As soon as we entered the room, Lena’s scent hit us, but the scent didn’t smell like the usual rogue smell. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but the scent was different. Shaking that thought off quickly, the three of us sat on my bed and gazed at her luggage. I knew that the bags were military duffel bags, and thanks to my father and my uncle Sean, I was familiar with the brand, and I knew the brand was an expensive one.

I had a lot of questions about our new roommate. Who was she? Where was she from? How had she become a rogue? Was she dangerous?

In that moment I would have liked nothing more than to go through her bags and try to get an understanding of who this Lena girl was as a person. But I didn’t want her to walk in on me invading her privacy and rifling through her luggage. That would have been awkward. It wasn’t long before I heard a knock on the door. Looking at my sisters, they both looked at me and motioned for me to go get the door. Getting up off my bed, I walked out of the room to answer the door.