THE SLAP HEARD ROUND RAVENSCROFT HIGH.

LUCIEN'S POINT OF VIEW. They all walked out of the hall briskly, their shoes and heels clinking against the marble floors of the hall, as they rushed out of the hall. The parents, the board members, the shareholders, every important adult in the damn building walked out at the chaos that had ensued. Except for Roxanne's mother and Mat's father, who stood awaiting their judgment. Her mother, Stacy, looked around in shame as she clutched her pearls tightly. She knew the gossip making the rounds right now would be about how she and her daughter stole thousands of dollars from the school. Roxanne thought no one knew, but I knew all too well about how her father was the one who had all the money, but she and her mother were left with scraps because of their lavish spending habits. Her clinching up to me last year was on mommy's orders, because she thought Eldric would give her to me in marriage if she ended up pregnant for me. But as usual, I was one step ahead of them all, and my father an