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Chapter 12: The Window He Always Chooses
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2026-10-23 01:50:52
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He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 39: The Seat That Switched Overnight
"There's been a mix-up with the seating chart, Miss Hale. I'm so sorry, I don't know how this happened."The event coordinator's voice is apologetic through the phone, and my stomach drops before she even finishes the sentence. "What kind of mix-up?""The photography schedule. It has Miss Whitmore listed as Mr. Ashworth's escort for the formal portraits. I have your confirmation right here, printed, from three days ago. I genuinely don't understand how this happened.""Who submitted the change?"A pause, papers shuffling. "It came through this morning, from an internal account. I assumed it was authorized."I hang up and sit with the phone in my lap, fury building slow and steady in my chest. Christian answers on the first ring when I call him, already sounding braced for bad news."Sloane told the coordinator she's doing the formal photos with you," I say, no preamble. "Not me. Her.""That's not happening." His voice goes hard immediately. "I'll call them myself right now and fix it.
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 38: The Seat No One Explained
"I didn't do it, Rebecca. I swear to you, I had no idea your mother was invited."Christian's voice comes through the phone fast, confused, and for once I believe the confusion is real, because nothing about his tone sounds like a man covering for himself."Someone did it. Someone put her at the head table, Christian. That's not a casual invitation. That's a seat reserved for people who matter to your family specifically.""I'll find out who arranged it first thing tomorrow." A pause, then, quieter. "Can I come over? Please. Not to talk about last night. Just to figure this out with you."I almost say no. The photo of his hand on Sloane's back is still sitting behind my eyes, and some exhausted, guarded part of me doesn't want to let him back into my room so easily after everything. But fear about my mother outweighs the hurt, at least for tonight, and I tell him to come.He arrives within twenty minutes, his hair messy like he left in a hurry, and the second he sees my face he pulls
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 37: Two Names on the Same List
"Who is this? How did you get my number?"I type it out before I can stop myself, thumb hovering over send, heart hammering against my ribs. The message about Sloane's dress still glows at the top of the screen, waiting, daring me to ask the obvious question.The reply comes fast, too fast, like whoever's on the other end was waiting.Doesn't matter who I am. Matters that you walk into that gala with your eyes open this time. I'm tired of watching her win just because you're too polite to fight dirty.Priya reads over my shoulder, her face tightening. "This isn't the blocked number from before.""No." I stare at the screen, something cold settling in my stomach. "This feels different. Smaller. Personal.""Could be Wyatt. He's felt guilty since the whole scholarship thing." She says it slowly, thinking it through. "Or it could be someone trying to scare you off the gala entirely. Either way, I don't think you ignore it."I don't ignore it. I call the event coordinator's office myself,
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 36: Proof I Didn't Want to Have
"That's not what it looks like. Rebecca, let me explain."Christian's voice is already pitched toward panic before I've said a single word, the photo still glowing on the screen between us. He's still sitting on the edge of my bed where he was ten minutes ago, promising me the gala would be different, and now I'm holding proof that his hand found the small of her back the same night he climbed through my window and called it obligation."You said your father set it up. You said you didn't have a choice." I turn the phone toward him, my hand steadier than I feel. "This doesn't look like a man without a choice, Christian. This looks like a man who wanted to be exactly where he was.""It was one moment. A photographer from the society page caught us leaving at the same time, that's all this is.""Your hand was on her back.""Habit." He says it too fast, and we both hear how thin it sounds the second it leaves his mouth."Habit." I repeat the word slowly, watching him flinch. "How many ye
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 35: The Table She Wasn't Invited To
"Wyatt wouldn't do this. There has to be some mistake."Christian's voice is tight beside me, but I'm barely listening anymore, staring at the name on the document like it might rearrange itself into something that makes sense. The meeting ends in a blur of careful institutional language, a promise to follow up, a reminder that the investigation remains open. I walk out of that building feeling like the ground under me has shifted again, one more thing I can't control added to a pile already too tall to see over.Christian finds Wyatt within the hour. I don't go with him. I sit outside the library instead, numb, until he calls me with an answer that somehow makes everything worse instead of better."He says Sloane told him I asked him to corroborate it," Christian says, voice strained through the phone. "Told him I wanted it to look believable, that it was some kind of plan to push you away before things got too serious with my father. He believed her, Rebecca. He thought he was helpi
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 34: Forty-Eight Hours to Prove I'm Not a Liar
"They can't actually do this. A rumor isn't evidence, Rebecca."Priya's pacing my room at nearly midnight, the notification still glowing on my phone where I've set it on the desk like touching it again might make the words worse. I'm sitting on my bed with my knees pulled to my chest, the particular kind of exhausted that makes everything feel very far away and very close at the same time."Doesn't matter if it's evidence. Somebody reported it, and now I have forty-eight hours to defend myself against something I never did." My voice comes out hollow. "Four years, Priya. Four years of perfect grades, of never missing a payment, of being so careful never to give anyone a reason to question whether I belonged here. One rumor, and it's gone like none of that mattered.""It still matters. You're going to walk in there and tell the truth, and they're going to see there's nothing behind this.""Will they? Or will they see a scholarship student connected to the Ashworth family in ways nobod
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