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I exit before her, leaving her to gather her belongings with shaky hands.
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Thornton gives us the world’s most useless tour, wasting half an hour of my life in the process. It’s an empty room with shelves that need to be stacked.
Pretty self-explanatory if you ask me.
Bellamy doesn’t say a word during the entire tour, her arms crossed defensively around her middle as she trails behind Thornton wordlessly.
“You’ll be here every weekday at 5pm without fail for the next six weeks. I want biweekly updates on your progress. And Miss Ward,” She looks up at him when he says her name. “It goes without saying that we’ll have to formally review the status of your scholarship in the context of these new developments.”
She nods her head almost imperceptibly, whispering a defeated “Yes, sir.”
“You’re dismissed.”
She doesn’t wait to be told a second time, grabbing her things and leaving before he can change his mind.
Thornton claps a hand on my shoulder. “No hard feelings, son. You know I can’t show any favoritism in these moments.”
He goes to move past me but I grab him by the lapel of his suit jacket and hold him in place.
“You’re not going to review anything.”
“Pardon me?”
“I don’t like repeating myself.” I tell him. “You won’t review anything to do with Bellamy’s scholarship and you won’t add a permanent admonishment to her file.”
She can't leave now. This is just getting interesting.
He puffs out his chest, a small, unimportant nobody trying to make himself look bigger in front of a beast much higher up in the food chain. “I’ll have to see with your father–”
Wrapping my hand around his tie, I use it to yank him to his knees before me. My foot pushes down on the prone hand he'd used to catch himself, adding just enough weight to almost break fingers.
I press down harshly, hearing the satisfying crunch beneath my foot. I definitely got his pinky with that one.
He screams helplessly, the pussy. I’m not even adding much pressure.
“You’ll say nothing to my father. In fact, you’ll tell him she’s exceeding expectations and you’re absofuckinglutely thrilled. I want you to tell him what a great choice he’s made. Otherwise I’ll let the lovely Mrs. Thornton know about the special one on one staff meetings you have with Professor Stevens. Understood?”
Another perk of being at the top of the food chain? The endless amount of useful information filtered back to me to be used for my blackmailing discretion.
It comes in handy for moments like these.
“Alright, alright!” He promises. “Let go of my hand.”
Magnanimous, I do as requested. He cups his hurt hand in the other, rubbing it gingerly as he does so. “I imagine you want me to revoke the detention as well?”
I hadn’t even considered it. I’d been looking forward to inflicting a new kind of torment on Bellamy.
“No. Keep the detention.”
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“Where have you been?” Phoenix asks as I walk into the TV room an hour later. Rhys is sitting next to him, typing away on his phone. He puts it down when he sees me, a mischievous grin spreading across his face.
There’s a bottle of bourbon sitting between them.
“Phoenix hasn’t heard about your little dust up. Why don’t you bring him up to speed?”
