Chapter 0023

Chapter 0023

We sit at Dot’s table for dinner. Damien Joins Sunny and another group at the next table. Sunny elves me a small wave, which I return. I choose a carbonara–type dish with garlic bread and chocolate cake for dessert. Dot is unusually quiet, she avoids eye contact with me and I start to feel worried. Had I made that much of a fool of myself in the assembly that she doesn’t want to be seen with me anymore?

“Dot, is everything okay?” I ask nervously.

“Yes,” she answers a little too quickly.

“I’m sorry if 1…” I begin but she holds up her hand, stopping me. Then she taps her ear and glances around the room. I frown at her and she repeats the motion.

says

you. You are forgiven,” she cheerfully. Huh? I look at my cake in confusion and then back to her. She rolls her eyes in exasperation and pulls out her phone. Seconds later my phone buzzes in

is reporting back to Deacon. I’m the one that should be apologising. Can we talk later? Have Theo bring you to my

“I

dinner, but I could come after that?‘ I respond.

the

scan across the remaining unbonded. I wonder if any of them will be sitting at our table by this time tomorrow. My eyes stop on a copper–haired man, he’s the only one who’s not staring at me. The guy next to him nudges him to get his attention and then nods in my direction. The copper–haired man’s icy blue eyes

leans in close to

out his pocket notebook and scribble something, closing it before I get a chance to see what he wrote. “You can see it when I’m

in

attention of the rest of his team. We give them a moment to say goodbye to their bonds and then we leave the hall, ready to heet Professor June after a thankfully

like she should have been enjoying her retirement for years. already.

finally meet you,” She greets me with a warm smile.

thank you for agreeing to work with me out of the

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