Valerie instinctively linked arms with her. "Of course I know him! That's my senior Kai. You've met him before, right?"
Nina scrambled to remember Kai, finally grasping a faint memory. "Wait—the senior who competed alongside you?"
"Exactly!" Valerie's eyes lit up as Nina recalled. "That's him. My classes have been killing me lately, so he's been tutoring me daily."
As an English lit major, Nina had no idea how tough law school was. "Tutoring? In college? Seriously?"
"Oh come on! Don't act like it's nothing! Every law student needs help. I'm aiming for grad school—I can't afford to slack."
Nina gaped. "Grad school? Val, have you been buried in books so long you forgot you're married to Ryan Sidney?"
The words struck like a lightning bolt. Truth was, Valerie had been forgetting. Once,
