that he may be watching her and hopeful that he was. Her face was red with anger as much as embarrassment, but she wanted him to know he wasn’t worth one tear. Hines simply hated her, he had hated her from the first day, and the feeling was mutual. She had never been spoken to that way by a teacher, much less been accused of something as offensive as plagiarism. She might have been off her game lately, but she wasn’t a cheat.

