Chapter 36
For the first time all day, Lena felt certain about something.
She didn’t care what people were whispering in the halls, or how many twisted versions of the truth were spreading like wildfire across the school. She didn’t care if Lily was furious or if her reputation had already gone up in flames. None of it mattered—not when Dean had defended her in the only way he knew how.
He was reckless and impulsive. But he’d stood up for her when no one else would have dared.
And that meant something.
Lena rose from the library chair slowly, her legs stiff from sitting for so long. Her hands trembled, not from fear but from the adrenaline still humming beneath her skin. She pressed them into the sides of her jacket to keep them steady as she stepped into the hallway where Peter was w
