All Chapters of Professor Grayson's Favorite sin : Chapter 91 - Chapter 100

Mia called three more times before eleven and once more at seven the next morning.Lennon was awake for the seven AM call, sitting at Damien's kitchen island over a cup of coffee he had made himself, which felt like a statement of how much the penthouse had become something other than someone else's apartment. He looked at the screen, he looked at the city through the floor-to-ceiling glass, overcast and grey and early.He answered."I need to ask you something," Mia said. No preamble. She sounded like someone who had been awake for a while. "The TikTok Archer posted. It is about you. I know it is about you. And the professor.." A pause. "Is it Professor Grayson."Lennon was quiet for a moment."I am not asking to spread anything," she said, quickly. "I am asking because I like you and I thought we had something. If there is a reason it could never work I want to understand it. I am not..I am not going to do anything with the in

The thing about Archer was that he never knocked.Lennon had known this for three years. He had known it when they were freshmen sharing a corridor and he had known it when they moved into adjacent rooms sophomore year and he had known it every single time since then that Archer had walked through a door he had not been invited through. It was simply not a behavior Archer possessed. He arrived, he did not announce it.So in retrospect, the sequence of events on Thursday afternoon was entirely predictable. The penthouse sound system was still connected to Lennon's laptop from two weeks ago, he had sdisconnected it and then reconnected it to play music while he cleaned and then forgotten about it again, because it was a domestic detail and domestic details were not where his brain was living right now. Damien was at a faculty meeting until six. It was four-fifteen. He had been alone in the penthouse for two hours with his thesis notes and a glass of water and the particular quality o

Chapter 94Damien moved back from the window before the car came close enough to matter.They had four minutes, Roman estimated, based on the car's speed and direction. Lennon spent one of them standing in the kitchen feeling the particular cold of a situation arriving faster than he had prepared for. He spent the second one deciding what version of the evening he was going to present.He had been home alone. He had been studying. He had ordered food because he did not want to cook. Archer had come by and stayed for an hour and left. He had been watching a documentary on his laptop and had fallen asleep and woken up when the buzzer sounded.He ran through it twice, checked it for gaps and found none. The gaps were filled with versions of events that were not technically false if you accepted a very broad definition of documentary."Go," he said to Damien.Damien looked at him. "I am not leaving.""My father can

Chapter 96 Evelyn called Lennon directly the next morning at eight forty-five. He was in the kitchen making coffee, he knew immediately from the first word of her greeting. "I need you to know," he said, before she could continue, "that whatever you think you heard." "I did not think anything," Evelyn said. "I know what I heard. I have two sons, i am familiar with the range of sounds that occur when.." "Evelyn." "I am simply saying. I am not horrified. I am, in fact, quite pleased." He could hear her doing something in a kitchen. The sound of a kettle. "It means you are both doing well. Relationally." Lennon pressed his forehead against the cabinet above the coffee maker and stayed there. "I am never speaking about this again," he said. "Of course. I will never bring it up." A pause. "I am, however, going to tell Scarlett that you are happy." "Please do not tell Scarlett anything." "She already knows you are happy. She has a graph." Evelyn set something down. "I also want

Chapter 98By eight the next morning the Instagram post had a hundred and twelve comments and had been screenshotted into the Graysler fan community, which had given it context the original post lacked.Lennon found this out from Archer at eight-fifteen, who found it out from a notification, who had been monitoring the Graysler hashtag since Scarlett's first TikTok with the dedication of someone who understood they were watching something historically significant. The fan community had matched the restaurant in the background of the photo, a place on Fletcher Street and had cross-referenced it with Archer's earlier TikTok and Scarlett's content, and arrived at a framework that was mostly correct and stated with the confidence of people who had been right about things before.The caption on the fan post read: “the rumors are real and I will be accepting apologies from everyone who told me I was delusional.”Lennon read all of it while standing in the kitchen at eight-fifteen and then