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Vinorca Jona POV Everyone stood up in class, me and Amanda included. “Good morning, sir.” “Settle down, please.” Chairs scraped and murmurs faded as everyone sat. The teacher’s broad back filled the front of the room, shoulders squared, his hand moving across the board in clean, confident strokes. “I’m your new teacher, Masen Kato.” The sound of his name hit me like a jolt. Masen? My pulse stuttered. Is he the same man who helped me yesterday? When he turned around, my breath caught. I’d been drunk, but I still remembered that face. How could I forget someone that generous, that… handsome? “What happened, Vin?” Amanda’s voice cut through, dragging me back. “Nothing.” The word slipped out too fast, too low. It didn’t even scratch the surface of what I felt. Nothing bad had happened, but sitting here with a man who’d literally seen me at my worst? Not exactly where I wanted to be. “Let’s have an introduction session,” he said. “So everyone can introduce themselves.” My heartbeat thudded