로그인Hazel’s POVI didn’t knock when I got to the house.I just walked in, the way I had for almost my entire life, except this time every step felt deliberate. Jaxon waited in the car at my request. This part needed to happen without him standing beside me. Whatever came out of this conversation, I needed to be the one who said it.Rivers was in the living room when I came in, sitting in his usual chair, a glass of wine untouched on the side table beside him. He looked up when he heard the door, and whatever he saw on my face made him go very still.“Hazel.”“Don’t… Please don’t do the concerned voice. Not right now.”He set down the glass he had been holding. “I have been eating for yu to cobe home. Did you see my calls?.”“I’m not here because of your calls.” I crossed the room and set my bag down on the coffee table, pulling out the folder I had been carrying since I left Oswald’s office. “I’m here because I want the truth. Every piece of it, not the version you’ve been managing for ei
Hazel’s POVI kept thinking about who Trey used to be before all of this.It was a strange thing to grieve, considering everything he’d done. But somewhere underneath everything, there had been a version of him I actually liked once. The brother who used to steal my fries at dinner and pretend he wasn’t doing it. The one who showed up to one of my middle school recitals because nobody else could make it.I didn’t know when that person had disappeared, it must have been in college because that was when he got all too absorbed with himself. Either way, he is gone from WildLife now. The school’s IT department had pulled his access during the investigation, and somewhere in the mess of paperwork, my account had finally come back to where it belonged.To me, after I wrote an undertaking never to use it to tarnish any image. Even if I never did tarnish any image. My blog posts were o mostly about rumours, sex and wild life on campus. Yet I graciously signed the undertaking because I missed
Trey’s POVThe official notice came through at noon, and by the time I finished reading it, my hands had gone cold.Blacklisted from any hockey activity with immediate effect. Three months of mandated community service, alongside Tiffany and the other students who took part in it. A formal public apology is to be broadcast through the school’s official channels for the entire student body.I sat with my phone in my hand for a long time after that, not moving.By two in the afternoon, the news had already crossed every group chat on campus. I knew because my phone had gone almost completely silent. Teammates who used to text me first about everything weren’t texting at all. Guys who had followed my lead in the locker room for three years suddenly had nothing to say to me.The worst part came at four.A message from one of the scouts my father had personally introduced me to last season. Disappointing to hear about the situation. We’ll be reassessing our interest.I stared at that messa
Trey’s POVI woke up the morning after Tiffany’s verdict feeling very good, for the first time in weeks, because everything has finally been settled.She had taken the fall. My name had stayed clean through the entire hearing. I stood in front of my bedroom mirror, buttoning my Ice Hounds jacket with a confidence I hadn't felt in a long time. One more game. That was all I needed.The moment I stepped onto the walkway leading toward the athletics building, something felt...off.Conversations stopped as I walked by. Two freshmen from the team whispered to each other before quickly looking away when I caught them staring.My grip tightened around my bag.What now?Then I saw Hazel crossing the courtyard with Jaxon beside her. For a second, everything else disappeared.She looked different because she no longer carried herself like someone waiting for permission to exist.Jaxon said something that made her smile faintly. It wasn't a big smile, just enough to soften the exhaustion that ha
Tiffany’s POVI told myself, walking into the hearing room that morning, that everything will be sorted out. Daddy had made a few calls and even if Hazel had refused to withdraw the petition, she would just be wasting her time.I had told myself that every day for the past two weeks. I had spent almost a year building my reputation and even from my former school before I transferred here. That would mean something right. I was not about to lose all of it over a dorm room incident.The hearing room felt different the moment I sat down.It wasn’t just the five board members behind the long table, the same faces from the previous hearing. There were more people present this time, administrative staff at the back, a note-taker I hadn’t seen before, a stack of folders in front of the Dean considerably thicker than the last session’s.“Before we proceed to the matter of the dormitory incident, the board would like to address several additional statements that have come forward over the past
Rivers’ POV The stack of papers on my desk had grown over the past week into something I no longer wanted to look at directly.Legal correspondence from the university's general counsel. A formal request for documentation related to the dorm incident. A note from the board's office indicated that the scope of the investigation had been expanded pending further review.For years, I had been the man who controlled the pace of every crisis that touched my family. I anticipated problems before they fully formed. I managed outcomes quietly, efficiently, without anyone noticing the hand that had shaped them.Now everything was moving faster than I could direct it.I told myself, for the umpteenth time that day, that Hazel couldn't possibly know. If she had found what I feared she'd found, she would have confronted me directly. She had never been a person who sat on things. But then I remembered the last breakfast we had. The way she had looked at me when I asked about the study. Why? Is s
Hazel’s POV"Very thoughtful of you, Trey!" I let out a dry laugh, and I saw how that one hit him really hard.I know Trey has been raised to be a selfish person by our dad. Everything was always about him—whatever Trey wanted, he got. Meanwhile, I stayed in the shadows, daring not to say my choice
Tiffany's POVI could still hear the music pounding faintly from the other side of the house as most people had left the pool and gone into the house, but all I could feel was rage boiling in my chest, with my face burning up in heat."Ughh..how dare she cross me" I muttered to myself through my gr
Hazel’s POVIf my heart hadn’t already been racing, it started sprinting the moment Tiffany waved that stupid page of my diary around like she had just uncovered a hidden treasure. My scribble about my secret crush on Trey that I thought no one would ever see. How many pages of my diary did she re
Jaxon's POV"Your girl is drowning in the pool, man." Johnson came barging into my room, his voice sounding so urgent.I almost asked who the hell he was talking about before I recalled that Hazel and I were playing a fake date. I sprang up on my feet immediately and followed him back out to the po







