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They Cut Me Out, I Hold Their Fate Chapter 10
Celeste gasped, her eyes going wide. "You gave her the money? No. That's impossible! She told me it was scholarship money!"I let out a humorless laugh. "A scholarship? What exactly did she do to earn one?"Although if her team had actually taken this competition seriously and done the work themselves, they might have won something. First place and the 1.5 million would've been out of reach, but between the six of them, 100 thousand in prize money wasn't impossible."Celeste's lips trembled. Whatever little color remained in her face disappeared.By then, my neighbors had pieced together the whole story. Their sympathy for Celeste vanished with it."That's not some harmless mistake. Prof. Rooke is right. After everything he did for them, this is how they treated him?""Imagine taking someone's help and money, then turning around and trying to destroy him. And now she comes here acting like he's the villain? No wonder her daughter's facing charges."The crowd gradually dispersed.
They Cut Me Out, I Hold Their Fate Chapter 9
The whole incident made me infamous across campus.Once the restrictions on my student account on the forum were lifted, people started digging through my post history.What they found spoke for itself.Every comment I'd left was thoughtful and detailed. I had spent years answering questions seriously, including the advice I'd given Maris and her team before I ever joined their group chat.Public opinion turned almost overnight.Students tore into Maris and her team for throwing away an opportunity most people would've been grateful to have.At the same time, my inbox flooded with private messages. Some students had questions about their classes. Others wanted feedback on startup ideas or business proposals.But that account had become tied to far too much ugliness. So I deleted it. I kept only an official faculty account and made a post on the forum."If you have questions about coursework, research, or a business idea you're developing, leave them under this post. If I see yo
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I stopped the officers before they could leave. "There's one more piece of evidence. The hallway security footage."I told you that before the competition, Maris, Lucas, and the others dragged me into a restroom and locked me inside."And beyond the defamation and fabricated evidence, I want what happened in that restroom investigated too, including the attempted assault and the recording they tried to take without my consent."Sweat poured down Maris' face. For a second, she looked like she might actually pass out. The lies on the forum were one thing. She could still try to claim she'd gotten angry, lost her temper, and said things she didn't mean.What happened in that restroom was another matter entirely."I… I didn't mean to do anything! It was… it was Elowen and Lucas! They kept telling me Caspian was into me—that the only reason he joined the group was that he wanted me… So I thought…"Elowen snapped. She swung at Maris. "Are you kidding me? You're blaming us now? You're t
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"I was perfectly clear. The material was acceptable for an ordinary class assignment. It was never to be submitted to a competition."But instead of listening, you decided to get ahead of the story by spreading malicious lies and destroying my reputation. And just before the event started, you locked me in a restroom and subjected me to harassment."The second I finished speaking, the entire hall erupted.Maris' legs began shaking so badly she nearly stumbled backward in front of everyone. The other five immediately retreated as well, as though putting a few extra feet between themselves and the judges' table might somehow save them.But there was only so much room on the stage.The university president, Shaun Trenton, who had been seated at the other end of the judges' panel, strode over with a grim expression. "Maris, is what Prof. Rooke just said true? Did your team actually do these things?"Maris swallowed hard. She turned toward Elowen, clearly hoping she would step in, b
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The moment my name was announced, it wasn't just Maris, Elowen, and the others waiting in the wings who went rigid.The students seated farther back were stunned too.Even from the judges' table, I could hear the whispers spreading through the room."Wait—which Caspian Rooke? The Caspian Rooke from Maris' forum post?""I thought he was an upperclassman. Since when is he an economics professor? And the head judge?""Shh! Keep your voice down. There are cameras everywhere."My phone was still in Elowen's pocket. Her whole body had started trembling. She pulled it out, but the second the lock screen lit up, her fingers went slack.The phone hit the floor. The others looked down.My lock screen was a photo from my master's graduation, taken outside the university where I'd earned my degree.That was all it took."W-what do we do, Maris?" Lucas stammered. "He really is a judge…"His knees looked ready to give out.Tristan was in even worse shape. He stood there biting at his fin
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"Maris, I guess you don't have to worry about your mom's medical bills anymore. Didn't you borrow another 100 thousand dollars from relatives? You can pay all of that back too!"At the mention of that money, something dark flickered across Maris' face as she looked at me.So she'd never told them where that money had actually come from—me."You guys go inside and check in," Maris said. "Lucas, you and one of the others stay with me. We'll find somewhere to keep him until our presentation's over. I'm not letting him sabotage this.""What? You can't—"Before I could finish, Lucas clamped a hand over my mouth. He and another guy grabbed me and forcibly dragged me toward the restroom.I fought them the entire way, trying to call for help, but everyone who recognized me only stopped to stare and gossip."Did you see the group chat? That's Caspian Rooke, the guy who plagiarized everything, tried to extort his team, harassed their leader, and supposedly slept his way into the finals."
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