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his
eye and murmured a slight rebuke.
    Brad grinned and
shrugged his shoulders. “Can I help it if the security codes here
are so easy to break? Let’s just say I was testing the system.”
    “As long as you
report the faults so they can be fixed. The Academy wouldn’t want
the cadets tip-toeing through their files.” Reno knew only too well
that it was a prank most cadets attempted. He’d done so himself and
had never been caught, but what he’d learned about his
psychological profile had been punishment enough. ‘Potentially
dangerous rogue,’ that had been the conclusion of his entry tests.
Reading that label had changed the course of his life.
    “Okay, okay, I’ll
tell the Academy. Geez, you Enforcers are sticklers for rules.”
    “Occupational
hazard.”
    Brad rolled his
eyes. “So, I suppose you don’t want to know about the other
devils?”
    Reno hesitated,
however his curiosity got the better of him. “What did you
learn?”
    “One is named
Ryne; he’s Kane’s half brother, and too cocky for his own good. He
has potential as an Alpha, but if he’s up against Kane, it won’t
work unless he changes his attitude. I can see him heading out on
his own one day, kicking around the world before settling down,
maybe even starting his own pack.”
    Reno nodded. He’d
been in that boat once himself. His older brother had taken over
the pack back home in Texas, but with the knowledge of his own
potentially rogue tendencies, he hadn’t returned. While he could
have fought for the leadership and possibly won, the peace and
stability of the pack would have been severely damaged. In the end,
he couldn’t do that to his pack mates, even if it meant condemning
himself to the life of a rogue. Thankfully, he’d found his place at
Lycan Link. “What about the third one. Is he part of the same
family?”
    Brad shrugged. “No
one knows. They look enough alike, but he was found in a human
orphanage.”
    “He’s a half?”
Reno gave Brad a sharp look. A genetic quirk resulted in most
half-breed Lycans being female. Not only that, half-breeds usually
lacked the ruthless dominance needed to meet the entry requirements
for the cadet program.
    “Nope.
Full-blooded. Someone noticed his scent in amongst a group of
orphanage children at a park. Some discreet investigating revealed
he’d just been dropped off there. No background records at all. His
adoptive pack speculates there was a pack war or natural disaster
and he was a lone survivor.”
    “But to leave a
Lycan pup in a human orphanage...” He shook his head in
disbelief.
    “Hey, I didn’t say
it was right or if that’s even what happened. It’s all just
speculation. Point is he was found, taken in, and when the adoptive
pack couldn’t handle him anymore, he was sent here. Actually, he’s
been enrolled longer than any other cadet.”
    “I thought you
said they were some of the best. Why is he taking so long to
graduate?”
    “He keeps screwing
around. Never passes the tests. As a matter of fact, if he messes
up this time, the Dean is threatening to kick him out pass or no
pass.” Brad shook his head. “Personally, I think he fails on
purpose. He doesn’t have anywhere to go when he leaves, so he just
keeps hanging around. And when he hooked up with those other two,
well... This is home now, I suppose.”
    “Nowhere to go,
eh?” Reno leaned forward, propping his elbows on the table and
studied the distant figure of the young were. “Is he Enforcer
material?”
    Brad smiled and
took a sip of his coffee. “I was hoping you’d ask that question.
When I read his file, he struck me as exactly what you need. He’ll
take a lot of training though. You’ll probably have to knock him
down and put him in his place more than a few times.”
    “I can do that.”
Reno sat back and smiled. He liked a challenge. “Hey, if this works
out, I’ll owe you one.”
    “Want to pay up in
advance?” Brad quirked an eyebrow at him.
    “How?”
    “This girl