The Unwanted Pact With My Enemy

Chapter 6

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ay down the hallway when a heavy hand grabbed th

er back hitting

t, spinning around

s neck, looking down at her. The arrogant smirk

sorry. It was a locker room joke. I didn't

er said, her voice like ice. "I only care abou

tightened. "

the design," she said, clu

Slade said, gesturing d

stomach let out a loud, aggressive growl.

stop himself from smiling. He stepp

call out Slade's name. He offered tight nods in return. Vesper deliberately walke

. Slade bypassed the long lines and led h

d returned three minutes later with two mass

She pulled her sketchbook out

looked

it was a blueprint of raw emotion. The way the Little Prince knelt,

its icy edge as she slipped into her element. "The natural color variation i

r the table, pointing at the joints with her pencil. H

ting of freckles across her nose. He noticed the w

redwood?" Vesper asked, turn

abbed his coffee cup and took a huge gulp. The scaldi

the cup down. "It's perfec

paper toward him. "This is the material co

e opened his banking app, typ

creen and her eyes went wide. "You transfe

ossing his arms. "It's not a tip. It's to buy

ue, but a loud voice cut throu

There

She recogniz

signature navy sweater, was walking straight toward

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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.”