HER PROFESSOR'S GOOD GIRL
“Inside jokes now, huh?”
“Not really,” Imani lifted her eyes, calm, collected. “You wouldn’t get it.”
And then she went right back to her conversation with Augustus.
That was the breaking point.
Valerie sat there for another painful minute, pretending to scroll on her phone, before standing up so abruptly her chair scraped loudly against the floor.
“Well,” she said tightly, forcing a brittle smile, “enjoy your little study date.”
And with that, she spun on her heel and stalked off.