Yuri let out a hard sigh, “Akiko is going to get us all killed.”
Yuri was walking around campus because he couldn’t sleep. Lamenting on Akiko’s life choices, he was tired but somehow also wide awake. Her increasingly frequent disappearing act with Jamie had him hiding from Hattori anywhere but their house at all times of the day and sometimes late into the night. Otherwise, he’d have to explain where Akiko was and why he wasn’t with her. He was there specifically to keep an eye on her, after all. She was his best friend. So, for all the trouble it was causing him, he couldn’t describe how happy he was that she’d found Jamie, even if he weren’t the mate she was supposed to find with some nameless, “appropriate” kitsune in Japan.
The fall air smelled different than it did back home. The t
