The Unwanted Pact With My Enemy

Author: Guo Er

Chapter 1

Word Count: 650 | Released on: Today at 10:30

olarship," Professor Cromwell said, his voice cutt

den sculpting table, her knuckles turning white. The syll

his wooden pointer against the chalkboard. "And to break you out of your comfortable li

roan echoed th

canvas apron. She hated athletes. They were

a cardboard box onto his d

ne. When it was her turn, she reached into the dark box. Her trembling fin

slip. Her eyes locked

Forr

ng. The air in the room

sper's shoulder and let out a loud, dramatic

he studio snapp

. "He's the hardest guy on campus to deal with. Go

and settled in her cheeks. She crumpled the paper

signaling the

ives into her heavily scratched canvas bag, yanked the z

t her face, but it didn

versity directory. Her fingers shook slightly as she typed h

ut a rigid, overly polite text message explain

hit

red almost instantly b

ind. Five minutes passed. Then

f ignoring her instantly triggered a memory

pushing through the crowd. Slade Forrester, laughing with hi

Vesper's vintage brass-cornered suitca

pen, spilling her grandfather's custom, hand-forge

t a careless "My bad," and disappeared into the crowd while Vesper fell to her

hair across her face, pulli

e tasted copper. Polite texts weren

's basketball team was currently holding an

g. She turned on her heel and marched towa

m doors and pulled. The heavy scent of floor wa

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“To keep her art scholarship, Vesper had to complete a life-size woodcarving for her final project. But her randomly assigned model was Slade Forrester, the arrogant basketball captain who had shattered her grandfather's priceless antique carving tools freshman year without a single apology. When Vesper blackmailed him with a ten-thousand-dollar property damage claim to force him into the studio, Slade mercilessly turned the tables. "I'll be your model, but you're going to do something for me in return." He demanded she carve a custom piece to help him woo a girl who hated his guts, and forced Vesper to act as his personal spy. The target turned out to be Vesper's own roommate. To make matters worse, Slade caught onto Vesper's terrifyingly deep, secret crush on his polite roommate, Julian. He ruthlessly weaponized her anxiety, mocking her stuttering panic and trapping her in a twisted mutual-blackmail deal that left her completely suffocated. Exhausted, humiliated, and desperate to escape this nightmare, Vesper logged onto the university portal at 2 AM to register for a quiet online elective where she wouldn't have to see anyone. But the system lagged, locking her out of every normal class and leaving only one open seat in a brutal varsity physical conditioning course. With her required credits and scholarship on the line, she had absolutely no choice but to hit register. Then the syllabus loaded on her screen. The Teaching Assistant for the class was Slade Forrester.”