Chapter 14 Khalid
Iwasn’t sure how we were supposed to deal with our first potions class since Lola tried to assault Liam.
Professor Thornheart was pretty firm about no one switching lab partners, but at the same time, Liam shouldn’t have to deal with that.
I had a feeling even after everything that happened when we caught her in the act, she still had plans for Liam and wasn’t planning on leaving him alone.
Liam was sitting at his table. He looked nonplussed if you didn’t know him, but I did know him.
Liam was two seconds from snapping and stabbing someone.
His hand was hovering by his sleeve and I knew that was where he had his switchblade hidden.
If Lola touched him again, he was going to stab her in the neck.
Lola showed up to all of her classes fashionably late and she liked to make an entrance.
Professor Thornheart was always hard to read and half the time, I thought he didn’t like most of us.
He seemed to really dislike Lola because she was terrible in potions and never listened to what he had to say.
I watched everything and everyone. My baba knew I never intended to go into law enforcement, but he taught me how to read body language. Professor Thornheart looked cool and collected, but his body language said he was waiting for something to happen. He was watching Lola.
And Lola was headed straight towards Liam like nothing happened. She had a look on her face that I was sure she thought was sexy. Liam was looking right at her with murder in his eyes and I guess she thought smiling at him was going to fix everything.
All of a sudden, Lola stopped with a shocked look on her face.
She let out this weird squeal and turned into a pig right in the middle of our potions class.
Her minions were all gasping like this was a big revelation as to who she might be, but I remembered back to our first day of class when Professor Thornheart told us his ancestor was Circe and that he knew how to turn people into pigs.
Honestly, I thought Liam was going to be the first student that got turned into a pig and it had nothing to do with Lola trying to mess up his potions.
Every time Liam went to the supply closet to get ingredients for his potions, he kept sampling things he didn’t immediately recognize to see if it got you high so he could come back and steal it later.
It was pretty obvious he was doing it because he turned the color of a blueberry for our entire potions class once.
“Mr. O’Breene, you are relieved of your potions partner. I have no problem with you working in the trio of your choice. Miss Mallum, if you can find someone willing to undo that spell, you’ll be working on your own for the rest of the year.”
Damn. Professor Thornheart knew what happened. Headmaster Mykene probably gave details that protected Liam, but our professor figured it out. We thought we couldn’t do anything to Lola yet because we needed her to lead us to her mate.
Professor Thornheart did it in a way that everyone else would just think it was because she was such a disaster in potions and bringing Liam down with her.
While Lola was a pig, she couldn’t hurt anyone and her mate would be figuring out how to undo it. I just hoped our teacher didn’t end up paying for this.