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“Have you been helping Tanner the same way you helped Connor?” She lifted her brow, and I immediately clamped my mouth shut and swallowed.
She knew.
Connor told her.
“Isn’t that why you get them back to passing grades so quickly?” She didn’t have to openly say it. I knew what she was referring to. “Guess that relationship with Professor Murphy helps, too.”
Fuck.
I took a deep breath. “You know what?” I mimicked her fake friendly tone. “I’m going to go.”
“Did I hit a nerve, Aster?” She wasn’t hiding her self-satisfied smirk anymore.
“No. We both know that I’m only here because of my mom.”
“More likely that I only considered you because you were a legacy but go on.”
Standing up, I started to walk out of the room. “Goodbye, Rachel. I hope you have a great time leading this sorority because once you get out in the real world, you’re going to be very surprised that things don’t bend to your will like they do here.”
As my hand rested on the doorknob, she had one last thing to say. “I hope you know, you leaving like this will have major consequences.”
I didn’t heed the warning in her voice. I just opened the door and slammed it for good measure. She thought all I was good for was helping them cheat. That would never happen again.
I waved as I passed the slaves–I meant sisters–and walked out of the house with my head held high. No longer was I going to worry about Rachel and her opinions. Not that I did much anyway.
As I stomped out of the house, Tanner stood, making his way over to me. “How did it go?” he asked earnestly.
Where to begin?
“Rachel is insane, and the sooner we get away from her, the better off we all are.”
He laughed and draped his arm over my shoulder, bringing me close to his chest. “Let me take you to your dorm.”
I hugged his chest, taking in his scent. “Only if it means you’ll be spending the night with me.”
“If you insist.”
Chapter 19
Lying on her front, Aster was on her bed, reading a textbook while her feet dangled in the air. I was beside her, sitting on her desk and doing my best to concentrate on the cue cards she’d written me. Unfortunately, sitting here in her room was distracting. That plaid skirt was distracting. Those knee-high socks were distracting. Everything about her was made to make it impossible for me to be interested in these little cards.
After three more weeks of hanging out, Aster and I had fallen into an easy routine. During the week, I’d study on my own until we had our Friday sessions, and then on the weekends we’d come to my house, study for a few hours and I’d cook her the only healthy meal she’d eat all week.
I liked it, and it was the most stable I’d felt since I got here. I wasn’t just skating through my classes; I was passing them with B’s and A’s, which was something that had never happened to me before.
Which was what led me to be sitting on my desk, staring at my girlfriend’s ass instead of the cue cards with her curled writing on them. I’d been studying for the better part of two hours, and now my mind wanted a break. I wanted to study something else for a little while.
“Hey, Teach?”
She hummed out a gentle, “Mhm,” in response.
I quietly placed the cards on the table and reached my hand over to her thigh. She stopped moving and looked over at me in shock almost instantly.
“Tanner, what are you doing?”
My hand didn’t stop as I watched her closely to see how she felt about it. It kept moving until it was right on her peachy ass, and I gave it a little squeeze.
She rolled her eyes. “Is that why you stopped studying? So you could give my butt a squeeze?”
