เข้าสู่ระบบELI'S POV"You are going to be late."Jasmine's voice came through my phone at eight forty seven as I stood in front of my mirror doing absolutely nothing useful."I am not going to be late." I replied."You have been standing in front of that mirror for eleven minutes." She noted."How do you know that?" I replied."Because I have been watching the front steps since eight thirty." She replied. "From the bench. With my coffee.""Jasmine." I warned."He is already there Eli." She breathed. "Eight fifty three and he is already there. Just standing there with his bag on his shoulder looking at his phone trying very hard to look like he is not waiting for you."I put my phone in my pocket and picked up my bag.**************************************************He was exactly where he said he would be.Front steps. Eight fifty three. Bag on his shoulder. Eyes finding mine the moment I came through the gate like he had been watching for exactly this specific angle of approach.I walked towa
ELI'S POV"So he actually said it?"Jasmine dropped her tray across from mine in the cafeteria and leaned forward with both elbows on the table, eyes wide, coffee completely forgotten beside her."Keep your voice down." I replied."I am keeping my voice down." She insisted. "Did he actually say it Eli? Out loud? In a corridor? Those exact words?""Those exact words." I confirmed.She sat back and picked up her coffee and looked at me over the rim with an expression sitting somewhere between I told you so and genuine emotional devastation on my behalf."And you told him to figure it out." She noted."Yes." I replied."To Sebastian Hale." She noted. "Who just told you he was in love with you. After being cleared by a university board. After getting Devon expelled. After everything." She paused. "You looked that man in the eye and told him to figure it out.""I also told him I had never hit anyone in my life." I replied. "And that he should draw his own conclusions from that."She set he
ELI'S POV"So he actually said it?"Jasmine dropped her tray across from mine in the cafeteria and leaned forward with both elbows on the table, eyes wide, coffee completely forgotten beside her."Keep your voice down." I replied."I am keeping my voice down." She insisted. "Did he actually say it Eli? Out loud? In a corridor? Those exact words?""Those exact words." I confirmed.She sat back and picked up her coffee and looked at me over the rim with an expression sitting somewhere between I told you so and genuine emotional devastation on my behalf."And you told him to figure it out." She noted."Yes." I replied."To Sebastian Hale." She noted. "Who just told you he was in love with you. After being cleared by a university board. After getting Devon expelled. After everything." She paused. "You looked that man in the eye and told him to figure it out.""I also told him I had never hit anyone in my life." I replied. "And that he should draw his own conclusions from that."She set he
SEBASTIAN'S POV"Walk me to my next lecture."Those were the last words Eli spoke to me in that corridor. I walked beside him across the entire campus with his shoulder occasionally brushing mine, neither of us speaking. Best and worst twenty minutes of my life simultaneously.He turned left at the literature building door, pulled it open, looked back at me once.Not a long look. Just a second. Just enough.Then he went inside and the door closed and I stood on the path for approximately thirty seconds before turning around and walking home.**************************************************"She knows."Bianca stood at the bottom of the stairs when I walked through the front door. Those two words hit me before I even closed it properly.I stopped. "What?""Your mother." Her eyes were wide. "She knows Sebastian. Not suspects. Knows." She stepped closer, voice dropping immediately. "Mrs Carter called twenty minutes ago. The board decision went through the university official system, so
ELI'S POV"How long has he been in there?"Jasmine dropped onto the bench beside me and looked at the closed boardroom door and then looked at my hand resting on my knee.Her eyes narrowed. "Your knuckles.""I am fine." I muttered."They are swollen Eli." She leaned closer."Jasmine.""Who did you hit." She turned fully toward me. Already knowing. Just waiting.I said nothing.She looked at the closed door. Then back at me."Devon." She breathed."He shoved Sebastian first." I muttered.She exhaled slowly through her nose and folded her arms across her chest and sat back against the wall."In front of people?""Approximately thirty." I muttered."Eli Brooks." She observed."I know." I muttered."You have never hit anybody in your entire life." Her voice dropped. "Not once. Not even when Jayden..." She stopped herself. Looked at the floor briefly then back at me. "Not even then."I said nothing to that.She looked at my hand again. Then back at the door. Her fingers drummed once agains
SEBASTIAN'S POV"He is going to do something stupid before two o clock."Eli said it the moment we walked through Mr George's door and Mr George looked up from his desk and looked between us and then at my face and then at Eli's hand."Somebody hit somebody." He said flatly."Devon shoved Sebastian." Eli said. "In the middle of the quad. In front of approximately thirty witnesses."Mr George looked at me."Are you hurt?" He asked."No." I said.He looked at Eli's hand."And Reed?" He asked."He will be fine." Eli said simply.Mr George looked at him for a long moment over his glasses.Then he picked up his phone."Sit down." He said. "Both of you. Not another word until I tell you."We sat down.He made three phone calls in quick succession. Short and precise and completely unhurried. I caught fragments... disciplinary board, eleven thirty, physical altercation, multiple witnesses, yes today, yes now... and then he put the phone down and looked at us."The board convenes at eleven thi
SEBASTIAN'S POVI had walked out of the house just before the emotions buried deep within me would explode. I couldn't even control myself anymore. And why the heck was I getting pissed off just because he couldn't understand me? Wasn't it better he was left in the dark? That this feelings of min
ELI'S POV Sebastain had completely zoned out as he stood here. His eyes were fixed on me but I was sure as hell he wasn't listening to a thing I was saying. First he was already dressed for the hearing and now he his acting all weird? “Are you alright?” I muttered softly, as I walked towards him.
ELI'S POVAN HOUR BEFORE SEBASTAIN CAME INThe familar ringing tone of my phone buzzed for the umpteenth time, it was the same caller and the same number. I stared at my phone's screen unsure of what to do to make it stop.If I ended the call, she was going to call again. If I picked up the call th
DEVON'S POV “What do you mean he hasn't texted you?” I snapped, annoyed by the silly excuse. Why would she never get it right? Why the fuck was she so incompetent. I had planned out everything and how great it was going to be and here she is fucking up my plans. “I didn't exactly has you had to







