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Chapter 123

Author: Grace Grandi
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-18 02:03:20

Chapter 123

**Piper’s POV**

Okay… so maybe this wasn’t going exactly how I imagined it.

I sat across from Gavin at the rooftop restaurant, the one with fairy lights strung like stars and a skyline view that could melt even the iciest heart. The food was divine, the atmosphere was perfect, everything screamed date night except for one tiny, glaring problem.

We weren’t talking about us.

We were talking about education… fucking academics.

“…and when you look at the reformative trajectory of 19th-century English literature,” Gavin was saying, his tone calm, his eyes bright with passion, “you can see how the sociopolitical structure influenced the characters’ sense of agency…”

I smiled politely, but inside, I was dying. What the hell? Is this what it is like to date a professor? If we eventually get married, would he quit his job for me? I do not think I can manage dating a man whose life is all about academics.

He mustn’t even know my CGPA, I bet he would freak out and probably
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