All Chapters of Professor Grayson's Favorite sin : Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

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Chapter 100: What Is True?

Chapter 100The video was four minutes and thirty-seven seconds long.Archer had posted it the night before, which Lennon had not known, because Archer had decided that asking for permission on this one was not going to produce the outcome he needed it to produce.The title on the TikTok was: “okay fine let's actually address the professor because apparently the internet needs me to.”In it, Archer sat at his desk and addressed the camera with the specific quality of someone who had thought very carefully about how casual to appear and had landed slightly too far in the direction of casual, which was itself a tell. He did not confirm anything. He did not name anyone. By morning it had a million and four hundred thousand views. By the time Archer walked into Damien's office with his laptop, it had one point nine.Lennon watched the whole thing standing in the center of the office.When it finished he looked at Archer."I need a minute," he said."I know.""I need you to wait outside."

Chapter 101: Be Brave

Chapter 101Lennon found out about the classroom video from the same Instagram account that had posted the restaurant photo.He was still in the corridor with Archer when his phone buzzed. He looked at the notification. He clicked through and watched the twelve seconds.He watched them again.The angle was bad and the resolution was worse and it did not matter because the angle was bad in the direction of insufficient rather than unclear, insufficient clarity about faces, but not insufficient to recognize the shapes of two people who had been photographed and discussed and compiled into fan content for months.He stood up."I need to go," he said."I know," Archer said. "Go."He went back into the office. Damien was at his desk. He looked up. Lennon held out his phone.Damien watched the twelve seconds. He watched them again. He set the phone on the desk and sat very still for a moment."Roman," he said. He typed a text."Someone was in the corridor," Lennon said. "While we were, the

Chapter 102: Walk With Me

Chapter 102Kessler found them in the corridor outside Hargrove's office.Lennon heard his father before he saw him. The particular cadence of his walk—measured, deliberate, the walk of a man who had decided where he was going and had already arrived there in his mind. He turned, his father was at the end of the corridor with two people Lennon did not recognize, one of whom had the specific attentive posture of a staff member and the other of whom had the specific attentive posture of a lawyer.His father looked at him."Walk with me," his father said."I have somewhere to be.""Lennon." Not raised. Not even close to raised. The quiet version, which was always worse. "Walk with me."They went to the far end of the corridor, near the window. The staff member and the lawyer stayed where they were. His father stood with his back to the glass and looked at Lennon the way he looked at things he had come to manage."The video," his father said."I know about the video.""You know about th

Chapter 103: Be Happy

Chapter 103Mia's message came through at nine that evening.Lennon was at Damien's kitchen island with his notebook open on page eight of the fifteen pages, which were going better and worse simultaneously—better because they were honest and worse because of what they were honest about. He read the message twice.“I know this is probably the wrong time and I know you are with someone and I know that someone is not me, but I need to say this once so that I have said it. I think I am in love with you. The version I saw at that coffee shop when you stopped performing and just talked. I know you cannot give me what I want, i am not asking you to. I just needed you to know.*He sat with the message for a long time.He thought about who she was—not the version of her that had been useful to him as a prop or a strategy, but the actual person. The one who talked about books with specific opinions and asked follow-up questions and had said *be brave* with a small heart when she could have s

Chapter 104: Roman's Person

Chapter 104Damien read the completed pages on Sunday afternoon.He had been given fifteen. He received twelve, with a note at the end that said: “You changed the number. I am holding you to it.” He read the note and then he read the pages from the start, the way he always read things, all the way through, no skimming, each page given its full weight.Page four was about the first time Lennon had understood that what he felt was not admiration. Page six was about the blindfold and the club and walking into class the next morning and the specific moment of recognition that had rearranged everything. Page nine was the one about wanting, the same subject as the original page nine, but further in, more specific, the version that had been produced by everything that had happened between then and now.Page eleven said: “I think I understand now what you meant about making decisions together. I have been making them alone because being alone in a decision felt safer than being seen making

Chapter 105: Who Is He?

Chapter 105They went back inside through the library side door.Damien kept his hand at Lennon's arm until they were through the door and then let go and turned around and looked through the glass at the east gate. The man had not moved. He was standing with his phone in a way that could pass for casual and was not casual."Who is he," Lennon said."PI. I do not know which firm yet. Roman will know within the hour." He was already typing.Lennon leaned against the wall beside the door and looked at the ceiling and breathed through the cold feeling in his chest. He thought about the classroom video. The restaurant photograph. The chain of documentation that had been building for months. Someone had been watching long enough and patiently enough that now there was a person at the east gate with a phone."He followed us from the office," Lennon said."From the building. He picked us up at the exit." Damien put his phone away. "He has been on the grounds for at least forty minutes. Roma

Chapter 106: Use It Now

Chapter 106Roman called Damien at seven the next morning."Mallory sent someone last night," Roman said. "Not just to the east gate. They have photographs from three separate positions over the past ten days. One of them is from outside the penthouse building."Damien was standing at the kitchen window. Lennon was still asleep. He kept his voice level. "What is in them.""Nothing definitive. Lobby arrivals and departures. Time-stamped. The kind of documentation that builds a pattern rather than a moment." A pause. "The PI himself will be on campus today. Mallory and Associates typically make contact when they have enough material. They are going to try to use what they have.""Use it how.""Leverage. They want something from you—a resignation, a statement, an agreement to end the association. Something they can take back to Kessler that constitutes a clean result." Roman paused. "They prefer to do this quietly. If you agree to nothing, they publish the material. If you agree, it dis

Chapter 107: I Love You

Chapter 107The meeting was already in progress when Lennon reached the door.He had not been called to the meeting. He had been told to wait in the corridor. He had waited in the corridor for eleven minutes, then he had stopped waiting and gone to find Archer, who had been sitting on a bench outside the building with his phone and a coffee and the expression of someone who had been watching a window."Is Roman inside," Lennon said."Roman is inside," Archer said. "He arrived eight minutes ago with a folder."Lennon looked at the window. "What kind of folder.""The kind Roman carries when he intends to end a conversation." Archer looked at him. "He is very good at ending conversations."Lennon went inside.He found the conference room on the second floor. The door was closed. He could hear voices through it. Hargrove's clipped bureaucratic cadence, Roman's level silence when it was his turn, and underneath both of them, Damien, controlled, precise and not raised.He stood in the cor

Chapter 108: She Is Crying

Chapter 108Evelyn had brought an entire meal.She had also brought, as promised, paperwork. She set both on the kitchen island and looked at them with the satisfaction of a woman who had accomplished multiple things in one trip."The food is from the Italian place on Mercer," she said. "The paperwork is from my lawyer. They are both important. The food first."Lennon sat on one of the island stools and looked at the folder beside the pasta."What does the paperwork say," he said."It says you are mine," Evelyn said, pulling the lids off containers. "In the informal guardianship sense. Which means legally it says very little. But morally and emotionally it says everything." She looked at him. "I want you to have a document that says this family has chosen you. So that if your father does what I think he is going to do, there is something in writing from our side."Lennon looked at the folder."Evelyn," he said."I know it is not legally binding.""Evelyn.""I know it will not stop hi

Chapter 109: Come For Me

Chapter 109Mia texted on Thursday.“I know you said last time. I know. I am not asking for a date. I just—there is something I left unsaid and I need to say it, then I will be done. Can I have twenty minutes? Just to talk.”Lennon read it. He looked at it for a long time.He did not tell Damien.He went.He told himself it was different because it was closure, not a date. He told himself twenty minutes was nothing. He told himself all of it on the way there, none of it held. He knew it did not hold and he went anyway, which was the honest version of the thing that had been happening for month.It was not a café this time. It was a bench outside the library at noon. She was already there. She looked like someone who had been thinking about what to say."Thank you for coming," she said."You said twenty minutes," he said. "I have twenty minutes.""That is all I need." She looked at her hands. "I am not going to ask for anything. I just need to say one thing and have you hear it.""Ok

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