I Kissed a Stranger to Spite My Cheating Boyfriend, and Monday He Was the Professor With a Rule Against Me novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: The Strap
Liv's POV
The dining hall smelled of cedar smoke and roast salmon, and two hundred people had stopped talking.
I kept walking on Elias's arm in my cousin's-confirmation dress, with my chin up and my pulse in my teeth.
Lanterns burned along every table, and the long windows at the end were black with the winter dark and the lit channel beyond.
To the dean's right, the coast guard officer in dress blues had half risen from his chair.
Nobody had told him there would be a procession.
"Dr. Reinholt," the dean said.
Her voice was pleasant and carried to the back wall.
"You are late, and you are not seated at the faculty table."
"Dean Aasen," Elias said.
"We have come to address the council."
"The council's agenda is closed."
"Then I'll ask it to open," he said.
A murmur went up the hall, a low long rustle like wind in a field.
I felt two hundred phones come up, and then I saw them go down again, one after another, as the people holding them looked at the head table and understood that this was not a scene to post.
Freya stood at the third table with her curls under a knit cap and her fists clenched on the cloth.
She gave me one nod.
Caden was at the team table, in his navy jacket, alone at the end of the bench.
His teammates had left a space on either side of him.
He did not look at me.
"Miss Gundersen," the dean said.
"I did not invite you."
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