Leaning beside Winter, Frank smiled and asked, “You don’t believe me, Winter?”
Winter did a double take but soon nodded. “Of course I do. Why wouldn’t I believe you?”
Frank kept smiling at her and continued, “Well, I’m saying that I’m the one who invited those bigwigs and that brat is lying. Do you believe me?”
Before Winter could speak, Bill snorted in disdain. “The Turnbulls must have spent a fortune on you so that you can become a professor here, especially when you’re so young. So, word of advice: quit getting yourself into trouble, because we all know how you got the job. If we have to say it out loud, you’d be humiliated. I mean, you obviously have no problem with that, but what about Winter? How bad would it be for a future doctor to have her future ruined by her brother who lives off women?”
Winter was at once furious and sprang to her feet, glaring at Bill as she snapped, “What’s that supposed to mean?”
“Nothing!”
Bill shrugged, staring her straight in the eyes. “Everything I do, I do it for you, Winter! You really should cut ties with your brother-just look, lying right in front of so many bigwigs, and you? I certainly have no idea how far he goes from here, and you might even get caught in his mess. You have to see the truth, Winter!”
“Bravo!” Frank was clapping and laughing. “See the truth? Well said, Bill Jackson.”
“Silence!”
Mr. Zims barked from the stage, not oblivious to the commotion occurring among the students. “Who’s the impudent wretch messing around when there are so many bigwigs attending your convocation?! How unruly!”
Bill’s eyes lit up at Mr. Zims’ outburst and flashed a poisonous smile at Frank.
He would claim that he invited
yet
Wigs? Well, he could give him t è to show off… and make
a
fool of himself in front of everyone!
He would see if Frank would try to flex on him from now on!
With that in mind, Bil sprang to his feet, pointing at Frank and shouting, “Mr. Zims, it was him! He disrupted the ceremony and lied that he invited the VIPS sitting onstage!”
“Shit, that’s cold!”
“Yeah. The man was just talking big-did he have to go to the authorities?”
“Bill really wants Professor Lawrence dead, huh?”
“Hey, why do I get the feeling that Professor Lawrence is still totally calm?”
While the students were left in an uproar again, Frank heard every word and calmly stood up.
As everyone looked on, he was staring calmly at all the bigwigs sitting onstage.
“What are you doing, Frank?” Winter promptly pulled on his sleeve. “Say something! Or just apologize and it’ll be fine!”
Jean was also frowning. “Just
apologize to Bill and everything.
be
be fine, Professor Lawrence. !
sincere if you’ve overreached…”
