Page 163 of A University of Betrayal

“What are you researching?”

Larissa shot across the room and stole Julie’s laptop.

Julie jumped up in panic.

“No!”

“Professor Quentin Tiberius,” Larissa read aloud with a grin and looked at Julie, who grabbed her laptop back. “Isn’t that your hot biology professor?”

“Molecular biology,” Julie corrected her and closed the laptop with an expressionless face.

“Why are you googling him?”

“And why do you own his books?” I followed up with a question that had been puzzling me for weeks.

I had seen the books on Julie’s shelf, but hadn’t dared to read more into them than necessary. But now I was curious.

Julie looked at us both as if she was thinking. She hesitated, and I knew she was about to lie. Larissa seemed to notice it too.

“Okay, there’s something going on and if you don’t tell us...”

“He knows about supernaturals,” she blurted out before pressing her lips together. “And I went to his office to look for clues.”

Larissa raised both brows and tilted her head. “Without us?”

Julie stared at her as if my best friend had lost her mind.

“Wait, he knows about magic, but he’s human? Why haven’t you erased his memory yet?” I asked, confused.

“You do such things?” Larissa laughed dryly, raised both arms and ran back to her bed to throw herself into the pillows. “Holy shit?”

“He knows how to defend himself,” Julie continued with a strained expression.

My eyes widened. “Youtried?”

Julie started pacing back and forth as if she was getting desperate.

“He’s a danger to the Circle. But I can’t tell anyone until I know more about him.”

“That sounds dangerous...” I voiced my concern aloud. And I wondered why Julie, of all people, would throw herself into such danger.

“You have to promise me. To keep it to yourselves...”

I nodded, because who was I going to tell about Julie and her crazy professor? Alarik? Hardly.

“If you need help, you know where to find me,” Larissa said with a wink.

Julie stared at her, then looked out the window in despair, as if she regretted sharing her information with us, before hurrying back to her laptop.

“Julie?” Larissa suddenly asked, and Julie looked up, caught off guard.

I knew what was coming next. Something I had wanted to ask Julie the whole time.

“We haven’t had a chance to talk about Erik yet...”

“There’s nothing to talk about,” she replied in a shaky voice.

“Liar,” Larissa said with narrowed eyes. “You’ve been seeing each other. What did you do?”

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