Page 16 of Wicked Surrender

I just had to be tutored and “show consistent effort in good faith that I was trying to improve my academic standing.”

“A fucking tutor,” I told them again. “I’m not stupid. I don’t need a tutor.”

Kevin shrugged. “Eh. It can’t be that bad.”

“Yeah,” Rory said, grinning. “Just have her do your work for you and pay her with pity fucks.”

“That’s assuming it’s a girl.” Kevin smirked. “If it’s a dude, just find a girl for him.”

“No. Not happening.”

Kevin and Rory shared a look. “Dude, come on. You can’t fight this. You gotta do as they say so we can?—”

“No.” I shook my head, glaring absently across the food court. “I’ll go through with the tutoring, but I’m not fucking her.”

“Oh, you already know who your tutor is?” Rory asked.

“Damn. Is she hideous?” Kevin guessed.

“Who is it?” Rory laughed, like it was hilarious that I was stuck in this position.

“Second-Best Chen,” I said, scowling.

As expected, they both cracked up in disbelief.

“No fucking way, man,” Rory said. “Second-Best?”

“That Chen girl?” Kevin laughed harder. “Ah, fuck, thatisharsh.”

I rolled my eyes, still trying to wrap my head around the information that Dean Chen had emailed me after the meeting. It was bad enough to be tutored at all, but by his daughter? That was some fucked-up shit.

“Second-Best Chen,” Rory repeated. “It’s such a shame, though. Her sister is so fucking fine.”

“Mai Chen.” Kevin groaned and made a gesture by thrusting his hips up. “If she were tutoring me…”

“She’s every man’s hottest naughty student dream,” Dennis added once he arrived and they filled him in on my predicament.

Mai was a legend on campus, mainly for her perfection. She was tall and gorgeous, almost too perfect, without a single flaw. Every guy on campus lusted after her, but she was remembered even more for her academic brilliance. When we were freshmen, she was in her senior year, but she was active as a mentor for programs too. Rory looked her up, lusting after her all over again as he listed her achievements in med school, a job with a medical company, and her voluntarism.

Then while they were having fun at my expense, they looked up Laura too.

Second-Best Chen.

The name suited her, not as obviously hot as Mai. While she wasn’t hideous, she looked…

I cringed. “She looks like a fucking loser,” I complained.

“She has to be if her dad’s making her tutor you. One of those nerds.”

I liked the nerds. The innocent and clueless good girls were the fun challenges I enjoyed.

But not her.

“He’s making me be tutored by his fucking daughter, of all people,” I complained. “As a punishment. He’s making this personal.”

No, he’s making this war.I’d be damned if he tried to get both of the Reeves brothers expelled.

I’d never dealt with Laura Chen personally. She was pre-med like me, but she had to be such a goody-goody student that she was a year and a half ahead of me, despite being two years younger than me.

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