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"Absolutely," she finally replied "I’m at the library and can come now if that ork"
Ten , the woave her a war in this quickly If you could follow me, I’d like to introduce you to Professor Cynthia Adaed woman in a well-tailored black suit held out a hand "Serena, it’s lovely to h she still had no idea as going on
"I apologize," Professor Adams said as the receptionist left the room and closed the door behind her with a soft click "I should have asked them to let you know before you walked in that I have taken over your History and Theory of the Novel class"
As a model, Serena had been trained to control her expressions under every possible circumstance But even that didn’t mean she could contain her surprise today "But what about Professor Fairworth?"
The woman’s expression twisted into one of pure revulsion "I believe he has decided to take a sabbatical"
"He has?" Serena knew shea terrible first impression, but she was so shocked that she couldn’t pull herself together
"He has" Her new professor looked ry as she said, "He adree to, Serena, and for the way he inappropriately spoke to you and touched you I’h that"
"I was just about to colad to hear that, because they will likely need to interview you about the incident, or incidents as the casewell docuht like to know that it is extre at the end of his break Here or anywhere else"
Now that she’d had a few seconds for it to sink in, relief--and pure joy--broke through "Thank you for tellingand couldn’t wait to tell Sean the a news
"Now," Professor Adams said as she opened up a file that had Serena’s naave your midterm presentation on the Brontë sisters However, because I haven’t yet had the pleasure of working with you, I’d appreciate it if you’d be willing to repeat it for me Early next week, perhaps, so that I have soreat" Serena could hardly believe her good luck Everything that had gone so wrong had completely turned around to be even better than she could have iined "Thank you soto have very high expectations" She pulled out a set of papers "I read the paper you wrote a couple of weeks ago on the sah about the Brontës to be very impressed with your initial analysis of their impact on the modern novel"
Serena was so bowled over by the unexpected praise--Professor Fairworth had told her that her paper had only skimmed the surface--that she almost didn’t realize why the wo academic in the field of Early Romantic literature Your book last year on Jane Austen was pure genius!"
Professor Adaht like to lay claienius, but just between you and me, I’ll take them both"
A handful of irl who had read everything the professor had ever written, she all but skipped out of the English Departot to the stadiu out of the locker roo the way he smelled of soap and totally yuain, before he drew back enough to ask, "What great thing did I do now?"
She laughed "You knohat you did And even if his career is ruined, the truth is he brought it on hi happen with your professor? I didn’t think you had class with hio with you the next tilish Departoing to see them I decided they needed to knohat happened"
"There’s nothing you won’t face down, is there? But if you’re the one who got hi me?"
Finally, she realized he’don "Fairworth is already gone I didn’t even have to say anything, because they already knew! And now I have a new professor A really nice woman, who happens to have written the definitive book on Jane Austen and is a legend And on top of all of that aness, she told me she was impressed with my paper on the Brontë sisters Very impressed!"
"Seriously, do you have any idea how hot it is when you start talking about books?" He pulled her closer "Tell me more about these Bront&euh--and burn so hot, too She loved it, but she also needed to know, "What do you think happened?"
"I don’t know for sure yet Although--" He pulled out his phone "--Drew sentif this is what he was talking about" He showed it to her
SMITH TOOK CARE OF IT
At her confused expression, he said, "I was talking to Drew about how Ss on the soundtrack to his new movie, and of course my brother asked about you I mentioned that you’d had trouble with a professor We talked about a few possible plans to deal with the guy that I was going to run by you, but I’ to S She didn’t just have the Morrisons behind her She had the Sullivans, too Not to mention Abi, who had offered at least a dozen tih that he wouldn’t have any reason to hit on a student ever again That is, when Abi wasn’t raving about how gorgeous and perfect and sexy Drew Morrison was