Lahat ng Kabanata ng Tamed By The Campus Bad Boy: Kabanata 231 - Kabanata 233

LEON'S POVThe house was too quiet when we finally got home, which was strange, because it's not like it's ever loud at two in the morning. But there's quiet and there's quiet, and this was the second kind — the kind where you keep waiting for a phone to ring.Aaron went straight for the freezer without even taking his shoes off, digging around until he found the bag of peas we keep for exactly this purpose, apparently, because we've needed it more times over the years than any two people should. He pressed it to his jaw and winced and didn't say anything, just stood there in his wrinkled suit pants leaning against the counter like his legs had finally decided they were done holding him up."Sit," I said."I'm fine.""You got punched in the face today. Soo Sit down."He sat. I got the good tape out of the junk drawer — not the peas-and-a-prayer version, the actual first aid kit Ingrid's team had insisted we keep restocked years ago — and cleaned up his lip properly while he held perfe

LEON'S POVSunday dinner ran long that week, the way it does whenever there's good news to stretch out over, and by the time the last plate got cleared everybody had spilled out onto the lawn to catch the sunset, Noah's announcement having turned an ordinary evening into a small, unplanned celebration.I ended up just standing at the edge of it for a minute, doing nothing, watching. Sadie and Wren with their heads bent together over something on a phone. Marcus, somehow taller than he was in June, teaching Ella a handshake so complicated I genuinely don't think he remembered the steps himself. Maya and her husband arguing cheerfully with Patricia and Thomas about who was hosting Thanksgiving this year, an argument they'd apparently been having, on and off, for a decade. Micah, home again, already talking a mile a minute about bringing his girlfriend around to meet everyone. Denise laughing at something Rose said, loose and unguarded in a way that still occasionally catches me off guar