LOVE ME WHILE THEY BURY THE TRUTH

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The night Wesley Anderson died, two people were seen leaving his dormitory.
One of them was me.
The other was Collins Waverly. A campus legend, legacy student, and the one name everyone whispered whenever something went wrong at Crestfield. The golden boy with iron in his eyes and a smile that never quite reached them.
I came to this university for one reason which was to find out who destroyed my brother Maurice. I built my entire plan around staying invisible, staying sharp, staying away from men like Collins.
Then Wesley turned up dead and suddenly Collins Waverly was standing in my doorway at midnight, rain-soaked and dangerously calm, with a proposition that made my stomach drop.
Fake a relationship. Give each other an alibi. Survive the investigation together.
I should have slammed the door in his face.
Instead I said yes, and that single word unravelled everything.
Because here’s what nobody tells you about pretending to fall for someone, your body doesn’t know it’s acting. Every stolen glance across a crowded dining hall, every whispered conversation that lasted longer than it needed to, every night his hand found mine in the dark and held on a little too tight. None of it felt fake.
And the closer we got, the more I realized Collins Waverly wasn’t just my alibi.
He was my prime suspect.
And God help me, I was falling for him anyway.

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