Aiden Knight's POV
The confession hung in the air like a death sentence. Sarah Chen's words echoed across the quad, shattering the carefully constructed lie that Preston Croft had built around my friend's humiliation.
"You bitch!" Preston snarled, his mask of righteous indignation finally slipping. "I paid you to keep your mouth shut!"
The crowd gasped. Several students started recording again, this time capturing Preston's admission of guilt rather than William's supposed crime.
I smiled. "Thank you for making this easier."
Preston's face went white as he realized what he'd just done. His eyes darted around the quad, looking for escape routes, for allies, for anything that might save him from the consequences of his stupidity.
He found nothing but hundreds of students staring at him with disgust and contempt.
