_Nathan’s POV_
Miles was already outside my dorm when Theo and I got there.
He took one look at my face and the careful way I was walking, then at Theo’s expression, and the temperature around him dropped.
“What happened?”
Theo answered before I could shape a usable version. “Rowan got him alone off-schedule.”
Miles’s eyes snapped to me. “Where?”
“East annex,” I said. “Room B2.”
“And?”
The hallway was the wrong place for any of it. A couple of students passed with laundry bags. Someone’s music leaked from under a door. Ordinary building noise. I unlocked my room and let them both in before the silence forced an answer I wasn’t ready to give.
Miles closed the door hard enough to make the frame rattle. “Nathan. What happened?”
I set my bag down and kept my hands busy longer than th
