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Mason to sit, and then chose the seat farthest from him.
    “Mason, welcome back to Bonfire Academy. Have you had your meeting with Frau Schmelder?” Professor Bern asked.
    “I have.”
    His voice sent a lightning flash of anger right through me. I closed my eyes momentarily to try to dampen it.
    Professor Bern nodded. “Good. So you’re aware that you’re on probation.” She narrowed her eyes into dangerous slits and hissed, “Do not try anything with me or my staff. Understand?”
    He returned her gaze with no hint of fear, just a smug turn of his lips. “Yes, ma’am.”
    “Professor Bern,” she corrected.
    “Professor Bern,” he repeated.
    “Good. Now, let me introduce you to my team. First, Henri.” She nodded at Henri, who sat to my left. “Henri is my assistant. He’ll be in charge of your sessions. You know Cordelia. Whatever your history is, I don’t really care. Be warned that I won’t tolerate you being disrespectful to her. She’s my apprentice, and you are one of her projects. She will be present at all your sessions and will work under Henri’s supervision. Understood?”
    “Yes, m—Professor Bern.”
    “Henri, do you have Mason’s file? Could you go over the immediate plan?”
    “Certainly.” Henri opened an orange folder lying on the table in front of him and flicked through some loose sheets of paper. “Hmm. Ah. Here it is.” He briefly held up a diagram and then reached back into the folder and pulled out copies for Professor Bern and me. “Mason, I don’t have a copy for you, but you can share with me. Your progress report from your Initiate stint here at Bonfire Academy indicates that very little happened during those sessions. The few you attended.” He peered questioningly at Mason. “Why did you attend so few sessions?”
    Mason shrugged.
    “You’ll have to do better than shrug,” Professor Bern reprimanded.
    “Don’t know,” Mason muttered sullenly.
    “Don’t know?” Professor Bern hissed.
    “Yeah.” Mason pursed his lips.
    “Well, whatever the reason,” Henri said, “the result is that you are pretty much at a beginner Initiate level, as far as your tests are concerned. I’m surprised that you weren’t kept back.”
    “He was,” Professor Bern offered. “But Frau Schmelder decided to allow him into the Integration program.”
    In other words, his dad’s donation had magically graduated him. I felt another twinge of anger burn through me. Who was he, thinking he could buy his way through life? All I knew about Mason’s biological dad was that he was the shifter sovereign of Paris, a very powerful, and obviously wealthy, man.
    Henri nodded knowingly at Professor Bern. “It will be tricky, Mason, but we’ll do our best to allow you to assimilate into the Integration program as much as possible, while trying to catch you up with your tests. The more you cooperate, the easier it will be.”
    He still looked sullen, but nodded.
    “Good.” Henri looked down at his plan again. “I have the first week’s schedule drawn up. We’ll do two test sessions this week. That’s more than normal—normal being one test every two weeks—but I want to get some baseline measurements down so that we can formulate a proper plan. Is that okay with you?”
    “Yeah. I guess.”
    “We’ll meet tomorrow morning at ten and then again on Thursday at the same time. We’ll get the tests done in the morning so that you can attend the Integration classes in the afternoon. I notice that you’ve not completed all your Initiation required classes yet, so I’ve slotted those into your schedule, as well. You’re going to be very busy. It’s not usual to assign Integrates mentors, but we’ve felt it necessary in your case. We couldn’t find a suitable student mentor, so we’ve asked the new student advisor, Jagger Deveroux, to mentor you.”
    My skin tingled at the mention of Jagger’s name. Student advisor? How the heck had Jagger been persuaded into taking on that