All Chapters of One Night Mistake: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Disappointment caused her stomach to plummet, taking her by surprise. Why she was upset by the fact he wasn’t interested wasn’t exactly a mystery, but she still wasn’t keen on admitting it to herself just yet.Or ever.“How’s the coffee?” she inquired, doing anything to get her mind off those traitorous thoughts.“Terrible,” he said after taking a large gulp.“Is it at least drinkable?”“Sweetheart, I’d rather sip turpentine,” he murmured wryly, shooting her a look over the rim of the mug. “But I need the caffeine, so it’ll do.”His words caused Taliana to glance down into the murky liquid, grimacing as she debated whether or not she wanted to risk assaulting her taste buds. The vote not to do so won out in the end, so while Sebastian drained the rest of the barely tolerable drink, Taliana set hers to the side, untouched.Sebastian caught her attention again when he slammed down the empty mug in disgust. “I better get home before my mother freaks out and starts calling everyone she kn

She managed to slip from his grasp and wasted no time sprinting back down the hallway. Though the move had clearly shocked him, Sebastian recovered in time to push Taliana against the white cinderblock before she could make it far.Taliana gasped as her back hit, but she still managed a glare as she curled her fingers into the front of his shirt. “What are you doing?”“Trying to keep you from killing Zak, me, or yourself,” he answered through gritted teeth, clearly trying hard to keep her from doing anything rash.“I’m not going to hurt either of us,” Taliana spat, struggling to get away. “I’m just going to kill him. Now let me? go .”She arched off the wall, but Sebastian pushed her back again. “No. You do that and you’ll be spending the rest of your miserable life in a prison cell.”“Why do you even? care?”Taliana once again slipped out of his grasp, but he seized her upper arm before she could get far. She’d barely managed to gasp in protest when he whisked her toward the stairs,

“Mr. Phillips, get in here!” Headmaster Hawthorne shouted from inside his office.“Now I understand why you like to beat people up.” Jude grinned, rising from his seat. “It’s so… exhilarating . I might have to do this more often.”“Please don’t.” Sebastian grimaced, running a hand through his hair as he watched Zak leave the office without a word. “If you get expelled, be sure to tell your parents I had absolutely nothing to do with it.”“You got it.” Jude sent him a mock salute before stepping into the headmaster’s office.Once he was out of sight, Taliana turned to Sebastian. “Are you as shocked as I am?”He merely shrugged. “Jude may be a little flamboyant, but I sure as hell wouldn’t want to get in a fight with him.”“Neither would I,” Taliana agreed, still looking on in awe. “Neither would I.”25Sense and InsensibilityBy the time the bell rang to mark the end of first period, it seemed like the entire upper school had seen Taliana half-naked. And much to Sebastian’s chagrin, it

The rest of the day seemed to drag on, and by the time the final bell rang, the gossip had risen to a deafening level.There wasn’t a single soul in the entire school who didn’t know about the pictures of Taliana, or that Blair had been blamed along with Zak for distributing them. Somehow Blair had managed to escape being expelled, but she still faced a week of suspension. It was better than nothing, considering she hadn’t technically been involved.Though her father was out of the country, Hawthorne had managed to get ahold of him on the phone, and while he obviously wasn’t able to come back into town to speak to the headmaster in person, Amir had sent his second in command-Mahmoud Rostami, a rather terrifying man Sebastian had had the displeasure of meeting-to retrieve Blair and escort her from school.He’d overheard from a group of gossipy Iranian girls that her father was going to ship her off again if she kept this up. While the girls had giggled, Sebastian couldn’t see the humor

“She’s my little sister,” he scoffed, as if that explained everything. “What did you expect?”“I didn’t really expect you to be this tender with her, actually.”He chuckled softly as he loosened his tie. “I do have a heart you know, as hard as that may be for you to comprehend.”“I’m having a difficult time wrapping my mind around it, that’s for sure.”Sebastian rolled his eyes, but it was obvious he was still amused. “Come on, we can hang out in my room until dinner.”Taliana followed him upstairs, down a seemingly endless hallway, and into his bedroom. Sebastian collapsed onto his bed while Taliana took to studying the rest of his room just like he’d done to hers, or more specifically the photos in it. His desk and the wall behind it were adorned with a fair few, most of which were of him, Michael, Marcus, and Jacob.One of the pictures, however, stood out more than the rest. Like all the others it was of Sebastian and the boys, but it had been taken at some kind of formal event. Al