#Chapter 130: Stone Secrets

Aurora POV Professor Hale’s eyes sweep over Marco slowly like he’s cataloging every detail. The pause is long enough to make my breath catch in my throat. “Why are you following her around?” he asks, voice deceptively calm. “You don’t even go here.” The words slice straight through me. Oh shit. My pulse leaps. Marco’s cover—Dominic’s careful arrangement—threatened in a single sentence. Marco doesn’t flinch. Of course he doesn’t. His face remains maddeningly calm, his body angled toward the professor with that controlled stillness that always reminds me of Dominic. The kind of stillness that can snap into violence at a moment’s notice. He lifts one brow. “I have no idea what you are talking about. Of course I go here.” Professor Hale’s mouth curves in something that isn’t quite a smile. “Really? Why is it that every time I see you on campus, you’re always trailing after Aurora.” I can hear my heartbeat in my ears, a frantic drumbeat, as though my body knows better