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He chuckled and sighed "I don’t know if thatto the side, propping ainst his inked bicep, I looked up at hi the sheet to my chest in a belated show of aze flick there before rising to my face "I’m not mad anymore that you didn’t tell ry was because I thought you were playing me, but it was the opposite of that" I let the sheet drop, and his searing gaze dropped with it Liftinghis jaw He must have shaved just before I came over "I could never be afraid of you"

Without a word, he took the plate fro and turningled in his hair I ignored the reproach ininforht not fear Lucas directly, I feared his desertion if I told hi the now-faers across the words and designs on his skin as he kissedof conscience to a distant drone

Chapter 23

"So where’s…" Benji’s voice trailed off when I glanced at hile toward Lucas’s unoccupied seat and a characteristic eyebroaggle

"It’s final review day, so he doesn’t have to be here"

"Ah" He s his voice "So… since you know that bit of inside info, and you two left class together the last couple of days… can I assu now?" When I pinned -songed, "Nailed it!"

Rollinghe’d hold his fist aloft between us until I did "God, Benji You’re such a bro-it-all"

He grinned, eyes wide "Woht, I would steal you frohed and prepared to take macroeconomics notes for the last time

"Hey, Jacqueline" Kennedy slid into the eave hin to notice "I wanted to give you a heads up" He sat sideways in the desk, facinghis voice low "The disciplinary committee decided to let hi as he abides by the restrictions of the restraining orders--because he’s pled innocent, and because there’s only a week left in the semester He has to vacate the preh"

I already knew Buck was out on bail, and that he’d been served the te order on Thursday afternoon--Chaz had called Erin to tell her, and she’d passed the information to me, as well as to Mindi and her parents

"Aweso in the house?" We’d all hoped he would be kicked off ca an innocent-until-proven-guilty stance

"Yeah, for the next week, but then he’s gone The frat doesn’t have to be as impartial as university officials do" He sht after Katie told hi Buck stay for finals as the only coo to his scheduled finals and back" Laying his warm hand overI can do?"