The Unwanted Pact With My Enemy

Chapter 5

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ibrating violently again

sketchbook. She groaned, rubbing her stiff neck, and looked

ed with old acrylic paint-and threw it on. She shov

heavy doors of the scul

ew students from the neighboring painting studio had found excuses to linger by the

them, dropping her ba

apped his hands. "Set

of the studi

y sweatpants and a tight black athl

room instantly escal

able, placed both hands on the edge of her workstation,

?" he asked, his voice low

ace to remain blank. She pointed a carving knife toward t

nd, and easily hopped onto

y lecture on the anatomical s

slightly as she looked up at Slade. The physical elev

eared his throat l

d talking. "Yes

ade said, his voice booming across the quiet room,

wave of hysterical laughter eru

My partner was asking me about nudity limits i

arcoal snap

h the burning humiliation, a sharp spike of anger pierced through. The sheer childishness of his lie was almost as infuriating as the humiliation itself, she thought, her nails digging into her palms. He was a c

ster," Cromwell said sternly, banging hi

ockingly and w

ammed it down onto her block of raw clay. The wet, m

smirk

his face again. She

ders, his biceps, the line of his neck, with the clinical, detached precision of a surge

h such intense, emotionless scrutiny was making his skin prickle. He felt a sudden, inexpli

or a single second. She threw her tools into her bag

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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.”