#Chapter 33: The Scandal

YENA “He’s your BROTHER?” I could hardly process what Nolan was saying to me. “Half-brother,” he corrected. He slid his phone over to me. The screen was open to a news article that had been published early this morning and was now, apparently, being reposted all over social media. The article had a horrible, salacious headline about me, and contained a bunch of pictures of me and Adan under his umbrella. I couldn’t believe it. And apparently, the professor had been keeping a secret from me — the fact that he was actually my brother-in-law. “Why didn’t you tell me about any of this before?” I asked Nolan, pushing the phone back over to him. “And did you know that he was teaching at the Academy?” My voice was getting a little high pitched and squeaky so I took a pause and cleared my throat before continuing. “I’m sorry,” I said, “I don’t know why but I’m a little freaked out by this.” “That’s okay,”