Chapter 29

“Do not answer yet.” He reaches up and silences me with a finger on my lips that sends me into an immediate freeze, moving so close that I step back and knock into a stray clothes rail behind me. I don’t know how I managed to wedge myself in this way, but I somehow have, and he stops dead still, his skin still on my lips as I try not to react visibly. He rubs it across my mouth, and I know instantly that my gut feeling for days now was right. This is not appropriate or warranted at all. He shouldn’t be touching me, yet my limbs have turned to lead, and I cannot move or breathe to react. Trapped in fear like a scared rabbit.

“There are certain things that are attached to the offer… As the main decision maker and the one who put you forward for the scholarship.” His eyes narrow on me, and as I back up, the rail doesn’t budge. I’m pinned against it. I try to pull my face back to get his hand off me, but he’s fast, and his mouth follows without warning.

A hard stubbled face