Page 230 of Heartless Sinner

I’m in his dorm.

My life is back.

I was back at Saint Vale.

Back with my friends.

Back with the man I so desperately loved.

Happiness had become such a strange feeling.

For months, I’d believed I’d lost everything.

I’d believed the man I loved was gone and that I’d never find the same feeling again.

Now, even waking up alone in his bed felt like something I should be grateful for.

Brooks had woken me up hours ago and kissed me goodbye before he left.

I was still adjusting to the time-zone change and sleeping in whenever I could. Since it was Saturday, I didn’t have to rush to class.

The second I returned to campus, Arisono gave me a stern lecture about breaking the rules.

I had no idea what rules she was talking about since she didn’t know I’d helped with my father’s plot.

Not that any handbook here had a rule covering that anyway.

Arisono had looked at me like she personally wanted to shove me back through Saint Vale’s gates, but oh well.

I’m here to stay.

Before I had come back to SVU, President Byron had flown to Calira with Brooks.

My mom had agreed to speak with him, and against all odds, they managed not to kill each other. They cleared the air, but too much pain stood between them now.

She also admitted to him that she knew I’d hidden the recording, but like me, she didn’t know about the plan to shoot him. We’d just been hurt pawns in a much dirtier game.

I slid out of his warm bed.

I’d slept in Brooks’s room every night since coming back six days ago, but still, it felt unreal.

Brooks’s dorm made the double I shared with Blair look like student housing for peasants.

Deep mahogany furniture filled the massive space, thick law books lined the shelves, and he had a full kitchen tucked in one corner. His living room alone was probably bigger than my entire dorm.

First Son perks.

Night Son perks.

My phone vibrated somewhere on the bed. I reached around the sheets until my fingers found it.

Adelina: SOS! SOS! SOS!

My heart immediately started racing.

We only used SOS during true emergencies.

Life-and-death ones.