CHAPTER 31

KATHERINE. I wished I could say I was surprised by the Dean’s choice of words, but listening to her call an attempt on my life a trivial matter and her wanting to dismiss it with just an apology from Poppy stung… A lot. Dean Bryman moved her attention to Poppy after speaking like she expected me to just stay down and accept this and I smoldered with resentment. “Sorry,” Poppy muttered dismissively while inspecting the nails on her right hand. She sounded bored, like she had better things to do, and the Dean returned her attention to me, obviously expecting me to say ‘Thank you’. “Are you fucking kidding me?” I bit out instead and a small, confused frown appeared on her face. “Do you want to escalate it and make it a pack issue?” I froze. ‘A pack issue?’ Dean Bryman kept her gaze pinned on me, a hard look on her face as she waited for my answer. Making it a pack issue meant our guardians from our packs would come here to try to settle it and that meant Poppy’s father would be comi