All Chapters of Professor Grayson's Favorite sin : Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

156 Chapters

Chapter 120: Keeps Coming Back

Chapter 120Mia texted the next morning.“I am so sorry about last night. I was not following you, i genuinely needed the room. I am also sorry about the group chat thing. I was processing and I was not careful about where I was processing and that was not fair to you. Then: “Can I talk to you? Ten minutes. I want to close this properly.”Lennon read it. He showed it to Damien."She keeps coming back," Damien said. "She is trying to close something," Lennon said. "I did not give her a clean ending, i kept leaving the door ambiguous.""You were not unkind to her.""I know, but I was not fully honest either. Not until the coffee on the bench." He looked at Damien. "I am going to talk to her. I am telling you before."Damien looked at him. "I know you are.""You are not going to tell me not to.""No." He held his gaze. "But I want you to say what you actually want. Not the managed version or the version that tries to spare everyone. What you actually want from the conversation."Lenno

Chapter 121: Say It

Chapter 121He got to twenty-two pages before he stopped.He had not meant to go past twenty. He had been at page nineteen and the thing he was saying had not finished itself yet, so he kept writing.Page twenty arrived and he was still in the middle of the sentence, so he wrote page twenty-one, and by the time he looked up from the notebook the kitchen was dark, the city was lit outside the window and the clock said eleven forty-three PM.He looked at twenty-two pages.He looked at the window.He closed the notebook and went to find Damien.Damien was in the study. He was reading, or had been. He looked up when Lennon came in."Done," Lennon said."How many.""Twenty-two."Damien looked at him."You said twenty," Lennon said. "I went over.""I know." He set the book down. He held out his hand.Lennon gave him the notebook.Damien opened it. He read all the way through, unhurried, every page. Lennon sat on the edge of the desk waiting and watching his face do the controlled thing.By

Chapter 122: Different Kind Of Conversation

Chapter 122Archer knew about the Bluetooth incident before Lennon woke up.He had sent seven texts overnight, all variations of the same theme, graduating in formality:“Lennon.”“Lennon i need you to know what i witnessed.”“I was NOT there.”“Except i was there.”“I am going to pretend i was not there.”“But lennon.”“LENNON.”Lennon read all of them at seven AM from the kitchen island with his coffee.Damien was in the study."Archer sent seven texts," Lennon called."I know," Damien said. "He also sent me one.""What did his text to you say."A pause. "It said: “professor.” With a period."Lennon looked at his coffee.He typed back to Archer: “We are never discussing this.”Archer, immediately: “Absolutely we are.”Archer: “i have so many questions.”Archer: “first question: how long has the third floor office been a thing.”Archer: “second question: does roman know about the third floor office.”Archer: “third question: am i getting a key to the third floor office for christmas.

Chapter 123: 412

Chapter 123Room 412 was quiet.His father was alone. No staff, no lawyer, no woman with a second folder. Just him, in a chair by the window, with two glasses of water on the table and the look on his face of someone who had been sitting in that room for a while before Lennon arrived."Sit down," his father said.Lennon sat."I am going to say something," his father said. "I want you to hear the whole thing before you respond.""Okay," Lennon said.His father looked at the window. He looked at his hands. He looked at Lennon."I have spent the past two months trying to control something that I do not have control over," he said. "I hired people, i built files and i made calls." He paused. "None of it changed anything."Lennon was quiet."I also," his father said, "raised my hand to you. In an apartment, in front of witnesses." He looked at the table. "I have thought about that every day since.""I know," Lennon said."You should not know. You should have forgotten it by now." He looke

Chapter 124: She Is Angry

Chapter 124Mia's complaint was three pages.Roman had it within the hour. He read it to Damien over the phone while Lennon sat at the kitchen island and listened."She names you directly," Roman said to Damien. "She describes three instances of what she calls inappropriate proximity. She includes the restaurant photograph and the nine-second office video as exhibits." "She also includes a statement about her own emotional experience, which is sympathetic to you—she says she does not believe the relationship was predatory. But the formal submission is still a submission.""What does it go to," Damien said."The compliance office. Separate channel from the board, faster timeline." Roman paused. "We have seventy-two hours before it triggers a mandatory review."Lennon looked at Damien."She was not acting for my father," Lennon said."No," Damien said. "She was acting for herself.""She is angry.""Yes.""She told me she was fine.""She was," Damien said. "And then something changed."

Chapter 125: Rooting For Us

Chapter 125 Hargrove looked at the room and did not say anything for a moment.He looked at the lamp. The desk and the courtyard window. The two of them."I received a complaint this morning," he said. He came inside and closed the door behind him. He did not sit, he looked at the lamp. He looked at the two of them. "And a security report. After-hours access, seminar room two." He paused. "I have been in this building for twenty-two years. I know what this room looks like when it has been used for reasons other than teaching."Nobody spoke.Hargrove looked at Lennon. He looked at Damien."I am not going to ask you what happened in here," he said. "I am going to tell you what happens next because I think you both deserve to know the full picture." He crossed to the window. He looked at the courtyard, he turned back. "I am going to tell you what happens next." He looked at them both. "The compliance complaint triggers a mandatory review. The review will be conducted by a panel that

Chapter 126: I Want It

Chapter 126Scarlett's video was eleven minutes long.It opened with her sitting at her desk, looking at the camera, hands folded, the expression of a woman about to present a thesis."This is the Graysler series finale," she said. "Not because it ends, because the hiding does." She showed the evidence not as proof of a scandal, but as evidence of two people navigating something real with care. She showed the threat call, which Roman had provided her, with permission, with identifying information redacted. She showed the PI contract summary. She showed the anonymous board statement. She showed all of it and then she looked at the camera and said: "My brother is in love. The person he loves has been treated like evidence of something wrong. I would like to introduce a different frame."Forty million views by morning.Graysler was the number-one trending topic in six countries.The hiding ends as a phrase appeared in the comment section of every adjacent post for twelve hours.Lennon

Chapter 127: Come Over

Chapter 127The texts came at eleven PM.Three of them, in quick succession, from a number Lennon recognized.*I saw Scarlett's video. I know I said I was withdrawing the complaint. I am reconsidering.*A pause of thirty seconds. Then:*I have screenshots. Things you said to me. Things that make the timeline look different from how Scarlett presented it. I have not decided what to do with them.*Then, sixty seconds later:“I am not trying to hurt you. I just want you to understand how this feels.”Lennon read them three times. He was sitting on the bed. He looked at the last on. “I just want you to understand how this feels and he thought about Mia at the fountain saying be happy and then Mia filing the complaint and then Mia withdrawing it and now Mia with screenshots at eleven PM.He read the last text again. “I just want you to understand how this feels.”He thought about that. He thought about all the ways he had not been clean with Mia…the ambiguity, the coffees that were not dat

Chapter 128: My Client

Chapter 128The PI was not the same one as the second time either.The third firm was smaller. The man who came to the building the next morning had the energy of someone operating at the lower end of the market, less composed than the Mallory representative, more visibly calculating as he laid the photographs on the kitchen island.Lennon looked at the photographs. Damien looked at the photographs.They were different from the previous set. These were from inside the building, not hallway angles but through glass, telephoto, the kind that required specific placement. They showed the third-floor visiting faculty office from a position in the building across the courtyard.They were not explicit. But they were close enough to explicit that the distinction would not survive a press release.Lennon looked at them and felt the specific cold of privacy being observed without consent."What do you want," Damien said."Ten thousand," the man said. "For the originals and the files. Non-discl

Chapter 129: Our Family

Chapter 129Damien met Kessler at the same hotel.Different room, same quiet. His father-in-law—Lennon had not used that word yet and Damien had not said it, but the paperwork Evelyn had filed made the spirit of it accurate, arrived five minutes early and was sitting in the chair by the window when Damien came in.Damien sat across from him.Neither of them spoke for a moment."You requested this meeting," Kessler said."Yes.""My attorney advised me not to come.""I assumed that." Damien looked at him. "You came anyway.""Yes." His father looked at the window. "I want to understand something.""Ask.""Why him." He looked at Damien. "Not rhetorically. I want to understand what you see."Damien looked at him."He is honest," Damien said. "When he is not performing. Underneath the management he built to survive your house, which is considerable, by the way, the management—he is one of the most honest people I have met."He paused. "He is also brave in a way he does not know yet. He walk

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