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The Heiress Is Done Asking Chapter 10
Cambridge had its first snow of the winter the day we met. I reached the coffee shop five minutes early and found Mason already sitting by the window. He wore a dark gray puffer jacket. The coffee beside him had stopped steaming.He got up as soon as he saw me, then checked himself, slowing down as though he was afraid of startling me. “What would you like?”“I’ll get my own.”He nodded and pulled out the chair across from him. I bought a hot cider, sat down, and folded my scarf in my lap. He’d lost some weight and cut his hair. The familiar team wristband was gone.I’d expected seeing him again to hurt more. Sitting across from him, the first thought that came to me was oddly ordinary. [He probably doesn’t wear that old jersey anymore.]“How’s the research going?” he asked.“Good. The summer report’s finished. I’m working on new assignments now.”“I watched your presentation on the school website.” He paused. “You were really good.”I thanked him and waited. He looked down at his coff
The Heiress Is Done Asking Chapter 9
The school’s written findings arrived in my inbox the following week. My research submission had been changed without my permission. My adviser sent that confirmation directly to the state science fair organizers, along with the preliminary version and my sampling records. The altered submission was withdrawn, and I was reinstated for the final round of judging.Audrey’s complaint was dismissed. The disciplinary finding for her involvement in changing my files would remain on her school record. She’d graduated, but that didn’t mean the school could no longer hold her responsible for what she’d done as a student.Mason’s part hadn’t been edited out, either. The record included the access he’d given her and his involvement in turning our breakup into a joke for everyone else. The school withdrew the senior committee’s recommendation that he receive a service award. He had to explain what had happened to the students involved and verify every fundraising announcement posted with his autho
The Heiress Is Done Asking Chapter 8
The remote meeting was scheduled for four days later. I cleared my desk and put on my headphones. The vice principal and my adviser appeared first, followed by Grandpa and Mason, who was sitting in a different office.Audrey and her mother joined last. Audrey wore her school cardigan, her hair tucked neatly behind her ears. She looked away as soon as she saw me and started twisting a tissue between her fingers.The vice principal asked whether I was ready to give my statement. I said yes, but asked them to play Audrey’s airport recording first.In those few seconds, I sounded like I’d cornered her and threatened to make her life hell. Then came her voice, telling me not to touch her.“I was really scared,” Audrey said. “All I wanted was to apologize.”I opened my own file and played it from the beginning. She demanded to know why I’d come back for Mason, admitted using his access to get into my folder, and dismissed the ink that had soaked through my dad’s sketchbook.[You think being
The Heiress Is Done Asking Chapter 7
The next day, my phone rang just after the research program’s orientation. Wendy’s name appeared on the screen. I stepped outside to answer and heard Mason instead.Behind me, someone from my new group called to ask whether I wanted to go to the library that afternoon. I nodded, pointed to the phone, and held up a hand to ask them to wait.Back at our table, the reference materials had already been divided up. My name was on a sticky note attached to one of the books. When we’d introduced our research that morning, nobody had interrupted me. Nobody had treated my report as an extension of whichever boy I happened to be dating. I’d been about to ask another girl how she handled outliers in her data.“Don’t hang up.” Mason’s voice was rough. “I just need a minute. Are you really all settled in?”I stopped beneath a tree. “You can text me if you need something. Don’t borrow other people’s phones.”“You muted me.”“I needed to sleep.”A door opened at his end. I heard Wendy asking if he wa
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“I’m going to spend the summer doing something for myself,” I told him.Mason’s lips moved a couple of times. He seemed to be searching for a joke, something easy he could say to make this stop being serious. “Boston’s not the moon. You’ll come home when you’re done, right?”I shook my head. “I’m staying for the fall. I’ll be starting college.”“What about us?”The question came so quickly that it still hurt. “I sent you a message, Mason. The night you posted that video.”“We were kidding around. Tyler and everyone took their likes back.” He pulled out his phone. The count was down to ninety-something. “See? It’s not even two hundred.”I looked at the number and didn’t know how to make this any clearer. “I’m choosing not to be your girlfriend anymore. Even if every single person takes their like back, that won’t change.”Tyler finally stopped smiling. He stepped aside and stopped trying to plan our reconciliation for us.Audrey moved closer. “Please don’t fight over—”“Not now.” Mason
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Wendy drove me to the airport the next afternoon. She hugged me, tucked a bag of pretzels into my backpack, and complained that airlines never gave you enough to eat. I promised to text when I landed, then wheeled my suitcase into the departures hall.I hadn’t expected to run into Tyler. He was looking down at his phone, but the moment he recognized me, he hurried over. “Knew you’d come. Mason should be out in ten minutes. He just texted.”“I have a flight.” I pulled my suitcase in front of me.He glanced at it without seeming to understand. “You’re taking him somewhere? He’s going to lose his mind.”“It’s just me.” But he was already calling Mason. A luggage cart came toward us, and I moved into the check-in line as Tyler announced into his phone, “Hurry up. Nora’s here.”I heard movement on the other end, then Mason’s voice. “Seriously? Don’t let her leave.”Tyler covered the microphone and grinned at me, asking whether he should hang on to my stuff. I shook my head, pointed to the l
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