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Chapter 161

Ember's POVKnox looked at the field for a moment longer.Then he said, "I heard Ethan cornered you in the hallway this morning."I looked at him."He told everyone he met with you yesterday," Knox said. "Outside the dormitory. One of the team members heard it and told me." He kept his eyes on the grass in front of the bench. "He made sure people heard it. That is what I was told — he said it loudly enough in the corridor that it was not accidental."Rebecca was very still beside me."Knox," I said."Is it true?" he said. He looked at me now. Not the angry version — the version that was sitting very carefully on top of the angry version and keeping it there with effort. "Did you meet him yesterday?"I held his gaze."Yes," I said.He looked at the field again.The muscle in his jaw moved once."He called me," I said. "He said he had something to tell me. Something about the campus, something important. I went because I needed to know what it was." I paused. "I should have told you. I

Chapter 162

Ember's POV"You have nothing to worry about," I said. "With Ethan. Whatever he thinks is going to happen — it is not going to happen."Knox looked at me."You have been keeping things from me," he said. "That is what I am worried about. Not Ethan specifically. The keeping." He held my gaze. "Every time something happens that you do not want to deal with in front of me, you file it somewhere I cannot see it. And then I find out from someone else. Or from Ethan himself, in a corridor, through a text sent days ago that I have been carrying." He paused. "That is what worries me. Not his text. The pattern."I looked at him.He was right.I had been looking at it as individual decisions — this specific thing I did not tell him, that specific moment I chose to manage alone. He was looking at it as what it was, which was a pattern of the same decision made repeatedly.Rebecca cleared her throat.We both looked at her.She was picking up her bag from the bench with the specific efficiency of

Chapter 163

Ember's POVWe sat on the bench a while longer.Not talking about Ethan or the text or the pattern or any of it — just sitting, the way we had learned to sit together when the conversation had said what it needed to say and what was left was just being in the same place.At some point Knox looked at his phone."I should not be here," he said."I have been saying that since you arrived," I said."You said it differently before." He looked at me. "Before it was get out of my field. Now it is—""Now it is you are suspended and if anyone from the management office sees you on campus grounds they are going to make things worse," I said. "That is the practical version.""Right," he said.He stood up.He looked at the academic building across the field and then at me, still on the bench."Go," I said.He leaned down.He kissed me — brief, direct, the kind of kiss that did not ask for anything beyond itself. Then he pulled back and looked at me with the expression that had been on his face si

Chapter 164

Ember's POVI walked toward her.Not fast. Not the way you moved when you were going to do something physical — just the steady, deliberate pace of someone crossing a room with a destination. The cafeteria parted around me the way crowds parted when something was clearly happening and people wanted to be near it but not in it.I stopped four feet from Charlotte.She held her ground.Of course she did. This was a scene she had arranged. She was not going to move from the center of it.I looked at her and then at the wall behind her and then at her again."We share a father," I said.Charlotte looked at me."That is the fact," I said. "Whatever else has happened between us, whatever the history is, whatever you think of me or what I have done—" I held her gaze. "We share a father. You and I sat at the same dinner table. We were driven to the same school events. We have been in the same family photographs." I paused. "You did this to someone who shares your father."Charlotte's expressio

Chapter 165

Ember's POVI should have seen it coming.In hindsight the signs were all there — the way Charlotte's expression had shifted when I turned away, the specific quality of someone who had been in control of a situation and had watched it leave their hands. People like Charlotte did not simply accept that and walk away. They did something with it.What she did was push me.Both hands, flat against my shoulders, the sharp sudden force of someone who had stopped performing the controlled version and had gone to the place underneath it where the unmanaged things lived. I went forward off the chair and hit the cafeteria floor on my palms and one knee and the sound of it — the chair scraping, the impact, the collective intake of breath from the room — was very loud in the silence that had built up around us.I looked at the floor.My palms were on the tile.Then I heard Rebecca."Don't—" I said.Too late.Rebecca was already moving. I heard her push back from the table and I looked up and she

Chapter 166

Ember's POV"Are you hurt?" Ethan said again.He was looking at me directly now, the cafeteria scan abandoned, his eyes on my face and then moving down to my knee and back up. The expression on his face was the one I had not known how to categorize since he came back — not the calculated version, not the performance. Something that appeared to be genuine and made everything more complicated because genuine Ethan was harder to deal with than strategic Ethan."I am fine," I said."Who did it?" he said. "Someone pushed you. I saw you getting up from the floor when I came in.""Ethan—""Tell me who.""It is not your concern," I said. "Sit down or leave. Those are the options."He looked at the walls. At my name. At everything written around it."Charlotte," he said. Not a question. His jaw set."Do not," I said.He looked at me."Stay away from Charlotte," I said. Clearly. The way I said things when I needed them to land without any ambiguity about what I meant. "Whatever you are thinking

Chapter 167

Ember's POVRebecca lasted about four minutes.She tried. I could see her trying — eating her food, looking at her phone, finding things to occupy herself while Ethan sat at his table across the cafeteria and the room gradually returned to normal around the name still written on the walls.Then she put her fork down."I cannot," she said.I looked at her."I cannot sit here with him in the room," she said. "I know that is not what you need right now and I am sorry but I cannot do it." She picked up her bag. "I will find you after class.""Rebecca—""I am not angry at you," she said. "I just need to not be in this room." She looked at me with the honest, tired expression she had when she had reached a genuine limit and was not performing it. "Are you going to be okay?""Yes," I said.She nodded once.She left.I sat at the table and did not look at Ethan's side of the cafeteria and ate the rest of my lunch at a pace that said I was not rushing and I was not affected and this was a perf

Chapter 168

Ember's POVI looked at him steadily."Leave me alone," I said.Ethan blinked."That is the one thing," I said. "Not a complicated task. Not something that requires resources or planning or any particular skill. Just — leave me alone." I held his gaze. "No calls. No texts. No showing up outside my dormitory. No delivering notes through junior students. No appearing in hallways and cafeterias and corridors and demanding conversations I have not agreed to have." I paused. "Leave me alone. Completely and permanently. That is what I want."He stared at me."You swore," I said. "On your mother."Something moved through his expression. Not anger — the specific devastation of someone who had expected to be asked for the impossible and had been given something worse than impossible. Something simple. Something he could not argue with or negotiate around or find a workaround for."Ember—""There is one more thing," I said.He waited."I was going to keep this between us," I said. "I had decide

Chapter 169

Ember's POVI was three steps from the cafeteria door when I heard his chair scrape.I did not stop walking."You have made a mistake," Ethan said.His voice carried across the room. Not shouting — he knew better than to shout in a room this full of people with phones. Just loud enough to reach me, loud enough that the people between us could hear it, loud enough to be a public statement rather than a private one.I stopped.Not because I was afraid.Because some conversations needed to be finished properly and walking away from an unfinished one in front of sixty people left the ending to the person who kept talking, and Ethan was not the person I wanted to leave with the ending.I turned around.He was on his feet beside the table we had shared. He had his hands at his sides and his jaw was set and the expression on his face had moved through the devastation and arrived somewhere harder."Rejecting me," he said, "is a mistake."The cafeteria was quiet again. It kept doing that — fin

Chapter 170

Ember's POVI heard him behind me before the door had fully closed.Not footsteps following me — just his voice, carrying through the gap before the door shut, the last of it reaching me in the corridor."I will destroy it."The door closed.I kept walking."Whatever it is," he said, muffled now through the door, the words reaching me anyway the way sounds reached me differently since the wolf had started waking. "I do not care what it takes. I do not care how long it takes." A pause. "I will destroy it."I turned a corner.The cafeteria was behind me and the corridor ahead was the ordinary busy corridor of a school between periods and I walked through it at a normal pace and told myself the coldness sitting in my chest was just the air conditioning.It was not just the air conditioning.---The facilities office was on the ground floor of the main building.I reported the writing on the cafeteria walls to a man who looked like he had heard many things in this office and was adding th

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