LYRA
“Oh this sucks.” I whined on the phone to the only person that would listen. The only person there was.
“Then don’t do what he says. Hell it’s not like he is your daddy or something. Ditch his ass and go be you.” Henderson gave me his occasional bad advice.
I heaved. As much as I would love to, I couldn’t. Not this time. The look in his eyes when he said those words to me, they weren’t the look of a man who could be ditched.
Whether I liked to believe it or not, professor Lucien had more power than I could comprehend. In the campus and probably off campus too. The way nurse Clara obeyed him, like she was his puppet, and then there was the fact that he was more than certain he could switch out all the school rules for me.
Perhaps he had the Chancellor wrapped around his finger
