"Tell me something I don't know," I said, watching her move around the small kitchen. We could've eaten at the mess hall along with the other recruits, but I begged her to let me return to the suite. I was in no mood to socialize and I really just wanted to get back to the room that I used to share with Derek before he had mysteriously disappeared. The suite was my sanctuary, the one place in hunter territory where it felt as if Derek's presence still lingered.
"Are you going to eat?" Zinnia asked as she put a pizza in the microwave.
I shook my head.
"Ben always ate up a storm after training… Do you ever think of him at all?"
"Sounds like him…" I smiled bitterly, recalling glimpses of Ben's handsome face. I ached whenever I thought of him. "Ben was my best friend, Zinnia. At one point, I thought I was in love with him. Of course I think about him."
Zinnia raised a brow. "But not as much as you think about the Novak…"
