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Jas a letter
"Miss Wells," Ha the letter I sent to Rashid the day before "May we speak to you about this?"
"Yes, you absolutelyinto the seat Sarah’s rapidly vacated and placingit’s going to be a long ti to enjoy theins"
Ha wiring through one of the ceiling tiles he’s re on below hi
"No, Miss Wells," Ha," Rashid says, from the couch He’s practically hidden by the shadows of his protectors "I’m happy to meet with Miss Wells"
"The prince of Qalif shouldn’t have to--"
"Be held to a different disciplinary standard than the rest of the residents in the building?" I shakefor time Ameera hasn’t shown up yet for her appointment But it’s still only three minutes to nine
"Discipline?" Ha so hot under the collar "You dare to suggest a prince of the royal blood will be disciplined by--"
"I need the free room and board I was promised!" Howard Chen yells, unable to contain hier "My parents can’t afford to send both me and my brother to school at the same time unless I have free room and board!"
"How could you and Lisa let this happen?" Kyle Cheeseuys liked us!"
"Lisa and I didn’t let this happen," I say "All of you let this happen when you exercised such poor judg to a party in the residence hall where you work Just what, exactly, were you thinking? There was alcohol at that party, being served to minors You’re RAs, remember? You’re supposed to bust parties like that Then you lied to Lisa the next day about why you felt sick" I ers when I say the word "sick"
"When Lisa told you that she felt sick--which she genuinely was--you dummies let her believe you had the flu But you didn’t, did you? What you actually as hungover How long did you think it was going to take for her to find out? You do know there are monitors all over the fifteenth-floor hallway, to help protect our VIR?"
I don’t wait for any of the they have to say
"So it’s not o on "It’s your fault You broke the rules of the ened, not to mention all rules of huht had been at the prince’s party, even after you found out she’d died the nextbecause you tried to cover your asses Didn’t you?"
All of the RAs look at one another I can see the naked panic on their faces