Chapter 1
Nora’s POV
I shove the door open with Cici pressed right up behind me and the lecture hall is already overflowing, extra students from the other section standing along the walls because there is nowhere left to sit.
Professor Hale does not even look up from the slide, he just lifts one hand toward the last row and says, “Sit. Now. I am not stopping for late students.”
There are no empty chairs.
Jake and Cole, the two guys the whole campus treats like walking trouble, slide their chairs back a few inches and Jake pats his thigh looking straight at me while Cole does the same for Cici.
I shake my head. “I am not sitting on your lap in the middle of class.”
Hale’s voice cuts across the room without him turning around.
“Ladies. Sit down or leave my lecture. I will not repeat
