CHAPTER EIGHTY ONE – COLLEGE RIVALS

"That manipulative, vindictive little bitch..." he growled in a tone Cassie had never heard from him before. A chill raced down her spine as she registered the raw venom in his voice, posture radiating violence. "Florian, hey, it's...it's fine, I'm sure she didn't mean-" she ventured placatingly, but he merely shook his head curtly. "Like hell she didn't," he muttered darkly, features contorted in a snarl of repressed rage. "She knew exactly what she was doing trying to sabotage you like this - just like all her other petty stunts over these last few weeks!" Cassie's stomach clenched sickly, recalling Vivian's snide glares and frostiness whenever she'd been around, the missing worksheets and corrupted files she'd assumed were her own mistakes. Had those incidents been engineered too? Just how far was that manipulative harpy willing to go to try undermining and pushing Cassie away? Judging from the blaze of incandescent fury blazing in Florian's eyes, he recognized the depths of her