Compounding Traumas (Artemis University #6) - Erin R Flynn Page 0,55

of your instructor by not addressing her as you should. This will be the only warning you get, Ms. Ward, and as you know from signing the addendum, being expelled again will be your final chance at attending Artemis. You may be let back into another college, but it will not be this one, and your place will be given to a more deserving student.”

Blake actually fucking snorted at Dean White. “The councils won’t let that stand. We all signed it to get our keys, but they’ll undo it in no time.”

Dean White smiled. “If you wanted to fight it, you should have done that before you signed it, Ms. Ward. That’s the downfall of being an adult. What you sign is legally binding as an adult and your parents cannot undo it, nor the council, unless you prove some sort of duress. Not being allowed into your dorm is not a form of duress, as you could have used the portal to go right back home since classes haven’t started.”

Dayumn that was good. Blake and several others looked as if they were just told there was no Santa, eyes bug wide as if trying to process their parents couldn’t save them.

Idiots.

“This is your fault,” Blake snarled at me. “You did this.”

“Yeah, I did,” I chuckled, smirking at her, shocking everyone around us that I blatantly admitted it. “It’s bullshit that you guys do whatever you want because you’re ‘elite’ and lie through your teeth that you’ve learned your lesson and deserve another chance. You aren’t sorry. You’ve learned nothing. And you never will, because you’re never truly punished.

“There’s no real consequence for any of you with money and parents that have power. You’re spoiled and entitled. But guess what? So are humans your age, and they face real consequences when they fuck up. Not always, but they do better than supes do to actually make people prove they’re sorry and work for that second chance. Are you saying you can’t do what humans do? That you’re not as capable as humans?”

“Of course I am,” she snapped. “We all are. We’re better than them.”

I smiled brightly at her, mentally laughing at how easy that way. “Good. Then there won’t be a problem, and you can accept the consequences for your actions, just like humans do. That’s what I started. That’s what I showed the school. Ivy Leagues don’t put up with half the shit from the students they do here. Well, they won’t anymore.”

“This won’t fly,” someone argued. “Just because you got Artemis to pull something—”

“Your assumption it’s only Artemis is wrong,” I purred. “Now, I’d really like to get back to my breakfast if we’re all done with the drama. I know everyone wants to try and think every problem or issue in the world is my fault, but most of it you brought on yourselves.” I glanced at Dean White, bringing us back to the original reason we had started talking. “Lots don’t like how the hobgoblins are treated.”

“I agree, but most think of you when someone fights for them. It was demanded that we question you and make sure you weren’t involved this one time, and so we agreed to play nice. Now we won’t again.”

I snorted. “Even if I did, there was nothing illegal about getting hobgoblins to the sanctuary.”

“They were clear there was trespassing on private property, breaking and entering of their residences,” she clarified.

“Oh, so they admit to keeping hobgoblins as slaves then, and they weren’t allowed to leave, where someone had to trespass and do such things to get them out? Is that what they’re saying on the record?” I smirked at her. “They should be very, very careful about saying that, as the hobgoblins are clear that the fairies aren’t gone for good and will be back. Several say all the time there are signs they’ll be back.”

White’s eyes flashed shock that I went there, but she schooled it. “Yes, they do say that and often, but I believe you know how many do not listen to anyone but themselves. I will make sure to note who was making the complaints for the hobgoblins though, as they will undoubtedly want to blacklist them.”

“That is a rather long list.” I couldn’t even hide my amusement. “And one that cannot be gotten around.” I smirked at Blake, remembering how she’d lied that she could. Bitch.

And just to be petty when she couldn’t do anything more to me, she reached over the table and smashed