Tag: book-review
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A Promise’s Price: Pt. 3
Chapter 11. JASON The Theta Lambda lounge smells like cloyingly sweet caramel popcorn over coconut‑scented tanning oil, a sugar rush of nervous energy bouncing between mirrored trophy cases that reflect distorted images of the pledges. Cate stands at the front, dressed in severe black-on-black, tablet held like a commandment, her ponytail slicing the air with…
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A Promise’s Price: Pt. 2
Chapter 7. JASON The sun over Theta Lambda’s courtyard is brutal, a white‑hot spotlight that turns the turquoise pool into liquid neon. Sweat beads under the collar of my t-shirt as I lug the awkward weight of the lighting reflector past a gauntlet of inflatable flamingos and half‑filled Solo cups. Great. First campus Saturday and…
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A Promise’s Price: Pt. 1
Chapter 1. JASON The August sun beat down, shimmering off the cracked sidewalk as I hoisted the last box from the backseat, balancing its stubbornly digging weight on my hip and nudging the car door closed with my foot. Parker was already halfway up the worn stone steps of Theta Lambda, her shoulders back, her…
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