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Chapter 34: Forty-Eight Hours to Prove I'm Not a Liar
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He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 47: Half a Yes
"You raised your glass. Tell me why."I say it before Christian has even finished crossing the hallway outside his economics lecture, before he can arrange his face into anything. Students stream around us toward the doors. He stops so suddenly that a boy behind him walks into his shoulder, mutters an apology, and gets no answer."Not here, Rebecca.""Here is the only place I ever get you." I hold up my phone between us. Sloane's champagne glass is frozen mid tilt on the screen, and his own hand is lifted beside it. "Dom sent me this at six this morning. She told a table full of people they'd be invited back for something bigger, very soon. You were sitting right there. You didn't say one word. You lifted your glass.""It was a toast." His voice drops, tight and low. "Her father was two seats away from me. What did you want me to do, stand up and correct her over the soup?""Yes."He laughs, short and ugly, and rubs his jaw like I've asked him to lift a car. "You make it sound so easy
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 46: The Photo That Never Happened
"Look at the time stamp. Eight fifteen. Look at it, Rebecca."Priya holds her laptop out like a shield, her thumb jabbing the screen so hard I'm afraid she'll crack it. Julian's pulled the newsroom badge log. Three names swiped in at 7:02 p.m., three swiped out at 10:40. Mine, Priya's, his. Right in the middle sits a line of text from the student portal: *Statement submitted, 8:15 p.m.* From Christian's login. While Christian was standing six feet from me, reading over my shoulder."He was in that room," I say. "He was holding my hand when it went through.""Which means he didn't submit it, and you didn't coach anything." Priya's voice shakes with how badly she wants to be right. "Email it to Dean Harmon tonight. Make her read it."I do. My hands barely work the keys. When I hit send, the little whoosh sound feels like a door closing on an empty house.I tell myself I'm staying away. Christian asked me to, and I have exactly one scrap of pride left.By eight o'clock I'm standing acros
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 45: Not Anymore
"Sit down, Miss Hale. I'd like you to read something before you say a single word."Assistant Dean Harmon doesn't smile when I walk in. Her office is small and overheated, shelves stacked with binders, a radiator ticking in the corner like a clock counting down. She slides one sheet of paper across the desk and folds her hands, watching my face the way people watch a pot they expect to boil over.I read it standing up. Then I sit, because my knees decide for me.*I, Christian Ashworth, state that I have only ever known Rebecca Hale as a tutor assigned through Professor Lindqvist's seminar. There has never been a relationship of any kind between us, romantic or otherwise. Any claims to the contrary are untrue.*His name sits at the bottom in blue ink. It looks right from far away. Up close, the C is wrong. Christian signs with a quick slanted loop, like he's in a hurry to get away from his own name. This C is careful and round, drawn by someone who copied it from somewhere."This isn't
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 44: The Email From the Dean
"Twelve thousand views. Read it yourself."I'm sitting on the fountain's edge with my phone shaking in my hand, Christian reading the email over my shoulder, both of us silent for a long moment while the cold afternoon wind cuts across the quad. The subject line alone makes my stomach drop: *Formal Notice of Interim Suspension Pending Review.*"They can't suspend you over a video," Christian says, though his voice doesn't carry the certainty it did ten minutes ago in his father's office."They can do whatever they decide looks responsible to the public." I scroll through the email again, the words blurring together, formal language about preserving the integrity of the institution, about protecting all parties during an active investigation, about my scholarship funding being paused effective immediately. "It doesn't say I'm guilty. It just says I'm suspended until they decide.""This is because of the video." Christian's jaw tightens as he pulls out his own phone, thumb moving fast.
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 43: The Condition He Names
"You wanted to see me?"I'm standing in Graham Ashworth's office doorway, breathless from the walk across campus, Sloane's crowd and her camera still ringing in my ears. Christian is already there, standing near the window, jaw tight, and Graham sits behind his desk with a printed document in front of him, unhurried as always."Sit, Miss Hale." He doesn't look up right away. "We have a great deal to discuss.""I'd rather stand."Something close to approval flickers across his face, there and gone. "As you wish." He finally lifts his eyes to mine. "Miss Whitmore filed a complaint this morning alleging financial impropriety between you, your mother, and a campus reporter. I assume you're aware.""I'm aware. It's fabricated.""I know." He says it simply, without emotion, sliding the document across the desk toward me. "I've reviewed our Foundation's actual records. There's no such transaction. Miss Whitmore constructed this rather sloppily, in fact, which tells me she was working quickly
He kissed Me In The Dark And Forgot Me By Morning Chapter 42: What Sloane Saved for Daylight
"What do you mean, there's more coming? More what, Dom?"I corner him outside the dining hall the next morning before he can disappear into the building, his usual swagger noticeably absent, hands shoved deep in his pockets like he's bracing against something. The morning air is sharp enough to sting, students streaming past us toward their first classes, none of them aware yet that today's going to be anything other than ordinary."I shouldn't even be talking to you." He glances around, uneasy, checking over his shoulder like Sloane might materialize out of thin air just from us standing too close together. "If she finds out I warned you—""Dom." I keep my voice low, urgent, stepping closer so he can't pretend not to hear me. "You texted me last night. You don't get to walk that back now because it's daylight and you're scared of her again. Not after everything this semester."Something flickers across his face, guilt maybe, or exhaustion with his own role in all of this, the particu
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