The Unwanted Pact With My Enemy

Chapter 4

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y. Her shoulder blades hit t

nt?" she asked,

, pulled out his phone, and tapped the screen a fe

lpture. It depicted a delicate rose enclosed in a glass-like wooden do

to use it to ask a girl to the Winter Formal next month. And before you say anything, this one is different. Normal stuff doesn't work on her. She thinks I

n, her mind struggling to

ong it takes," Slade said, his eyes snapping back to hers. "If you have it done before

ours of lost sleep versus keeping her sc

m. She extended her

fingers around hers. His palm was hot. Too hot. The heat burne

d their han

pulling up his contacts. "I need to

s. She watched as he typed A

out her own phone, and saved

e turned and walked away, his hea

ath. The tension drained from he

snow had begun to fall, the icy fla

pen the door to her dorm

aring at her phone screen with a

esper asked, shruggi

r phone and shoved it under her pillo

and panicked, but Vesper was too ph

her small brass reading lamp. She pulled ou

se. The curves of the petals

ined carving something this beautiful for him. Would he look at her t

lently. She needed to

in the room. She worked until her vision blurred, eventually res

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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.”