Coursedevil

He raised an eyebrow. "Don't. You did the work. I merely provided the friction."

"To... to humiliate us?"

When she finished, the room was deadly quiet. She looked at Thorne. coursedevil

The following class, Thorne stood at the front. He held up her paper.

"I said, read it. From the beginning."

"Yes."

Maya stopped trying to write what she thought Thorne wanted. She realized that was a losing game; he could smell fear and mimicry. If she was going to fail, she decided she would fail on her own terms. He raised an eyebrow

A.