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Chapter 157: I Am
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Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 159: Second Witness
Damien was at the university at one-forty PM when two officers arrived. He was in his office. He had known they were coming — Roman had called ahead and the university's general counsel had been notified. He was at his desk with the door open when the officers appeared in the corridor. He stood. He said: "I am Professor Grayson." He walked out to meet them. They were professional and courteous in the specific way of people who had been told a particular name was cooperative and who were working within that expectation. He walked out with them. He called Roman from the car. "I am in the car," Damien said. "Heading to the precinct on Fifth." "I know," Roman said. "The attorney is already there." He paused. "Cooperate fully with the intake process. The attorney will manage the rest." He paused. "Do not say anything about the fabrication timeline until the attorney is in the room." "I know," Damien said. "I know you know," Roman said. "I am saying it." "I know you are," Damie
Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 158: A Lie
Kessler stood in the lobby with the document on the table behind him.He looked at Lennon."It would make this stop," he said. The way he presented things, both sides, clearly, so the decision had full information."I know what it would do," Lennon said."It would make the credential proceedings disappear. The criminal referral, the board meeting." He held Lennon's gaze. "It would end tonight.""With a lie," Lennon said."Yes," his father said. "With a lie.""My lie," Lennon said. "My name on a lie about my own life." He held his father's gaze. "He wants your signature because mine would not carry enough weight. He needs a senator's name to make his fabrication credible. If you sign it…" He stopped. He started again. "He wins by using you to validate a version of me that he invented. A version of me that is seventeen and coerced and does not exist." He held his gaze. "I will not let you do that."His father looked at him for a long moment.He thought about the chair in the study an
Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 157: I Am
Kessler's phone recorded the offer.He had not planned it. He had not known Hale was coming. But Kessler had been in politics for thirty years and one of the habits thirty years in politics built was pressing record before walking into a difficult room, automatically, the way other people checked their keys.He had pressed record when he arrived at the hotel. He had been recording the entire conversation.He showed Lennon the phone.Lennon looked at it. He looked at his father. He looked at Damien."Roman," Lennon said."Already calling," Damien said.They sat in the hotel lobby at ten PM with a recording of Marcus Hale making a criminal offer to a United States senator on Kessler's phone. The recording was four minutes and twelve seconds long. In it Hale said: you do not have to believe it is true, I am not asking you to believe it. Roman arrived at the hotel in twenty minutes.He listened to the recording. He listened to it again. He sat across from Kessler in the lobby chair wher
Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 156: Mistakes
Lennon looked at his father.He held the gaze for a long moment. He thought about the folder on the table across the lobby and what was in it and what his father had just been asked to sign.He thought about a senator's signature on a lie about his own son.He thought about all the clean denials he had performed in his father's study and what they had cost him and what it would mean to have his father perform a denial about him in a legal document."No," Lennon said.His father looked at him."Do not sign it," Lennon said. "Whatever he is offering, do not sign it.""He is offering…""I know what he is offering," Lennon said. "He is offering to make it stop by making me the lie. By putting your name on a version of me that he invented." He held his father's gaze. "Do not."Kessler held his gaze. He nodded.He turned and walked back across the lobby. He sat down across from Hale. He picked up the folder. He looked at Hale."No," he said.Hale held his gaze. "Senator…""No," Kessler said
Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 155: Marcus Hale
The man who sat across from Kessler was around sixty. He had the specific composed quality of someone who had been in rooms where power was exercised for a long time and had absorbed the manner of it, the deliberate stillness, the unhurried placement of the folder on the table, the specific patience of a man who believed he was about to close something.He set the folder on the table. He said nothing immediately. He looked at Kessler.Lennon was ten feet away. He lowered his phone.Damien was at the edge of the lobby. He had come in through the side entrance without being seen. He crossed to Lennon's position in four steps. He stopped beside him. He looked at the man."Who is that," Lennon said, quiet.Damien said: "Marcus Hale."Lennon went very still.He looked at the man who had been behind a year of everything, the board votes and the PI firms and the criminal referral and the fabricated timeline and the shot in the garden and he looked at him the way you looked at something that
Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 154: Tell Me
Kessler called at nine PM."I know who has your files," he said, before Lennon had said hello.Lennon was standing at the window. He looked at Damien."Tell me," Lennon said."The deletion was commissioned by a man named Pryor," Kessler said. "He is in my party. He has been in my party for nine years. He is connected to Hale through a fundraising vehicle I was not aware Hale had involvement in." A pause. "He used my name without my knowledge to establish the credibility of Hale's position in the party. I found this out two hours ago." Another pause. "I want to help. But you need to understand what helping me means.""Tell me what it means," Lennon said."I go public," Kessler said. "Not a private statement. Not a legal filing through Roman's contacts. I hold a press conference. I name Hale, I name Pryor, I name the fundraising vehicle and everything I know about it." He paused. "I have been in this party for thirty years. I know where things are. I know what they did and I know how
Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 18: What I'm About To Do
What I’m About to Do to youThe kiss turned heated. One second it was slow and careful like they were still testing the lines. The next, Lennon made a small, desperate sound against Damien’s mouth and everything ignited.Lennon’s hand fisted tighter in Damien’s shirt; Damien’s grip on Lennon’s waist
Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 17: Mine
LENNON “Hey.” Lennon was temporarily in shock to see Damien sitting right next to him on the sofa and not on his office chair. When had he moved? This close, Lennon’s senses were flooded by him. His scent, his features, everything.That somehow made Lennon cry more. He looked away from Damie
Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 16: Mandatory Sessions
LENNON The email hit Lennon’s inbox at 6:47 a.m. Subject: Mandatory Tutoring Sessions – Immediate Adjustment.Mr. Kessler,Due to the urgency of your upcoming midterm and the observed inconsistency in your preparation, I am mandating daily tutoring sessions effective immediately. We will meet ev
Professor Grayson's Favorite sin Chapter 15: Off Lately
DAMIEN Damien led Archer down the corridor until they were out of sight. Far enough that he was sure Lennon couldn’t hear them but close enough so his eyes were on the door.Archer leaned one shoulder against the wall, arms crossed and that same lazy grin playing on his lips. Up close, Damien diss
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