Liora’s POV
“Liora?” Mia scrambled out of bed, looking between me and the guards. “What are you doing? What’s happening?”
“I’m being expelled.” I couldn’t look at her. I just grabbed my suitcase out of my closet and threw it open on my bed.
“What? Why?”
“Why do you think?” I flung my dresser drawer open and began gathering up my socks and underwear.
“Zane and Callum, too?”
“Nope. They got off on a warning.”
Mia stared at the guards in shock. They didn’t speak. Just watched from the doorway. The one on the left, the younger one, had a flicker of regret in his eyes that was hard to ignore, but it didn’t matter now. He hadn’t stood up for me when it might have made a difference.
“Mr. Alder has been looking for a reason to expel me all semester,” I said, reachin
