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art program.”
                  “Art? Oh, wonderful!” he exclaimed, and tore out of the room, calling to me to join him. Yeah, right. Sure, lure the young college girl to your bedroom because you want to “show her something.” Just like Bryce must have had something really amazing to show me upstairs. But somehow, Javier didn’t seem the type. Against my better judgment, I downed the last of my beer and followed.
                 
    ***
                 
    “Ladies, if you’ll quiet down and take your seats, please. We have to get this discussion underway,” Quinn called out from the podium at the front of the chapter room. The animated conversations dwindled down as the sisters took their seats.
                  “Now, I’m sure you have all heard why we’re meeting tonight. One of our new sisters, Andrea, has apparently accepted a date with someone none of us has ever heard of. Harper was there and saw the two of them arrange to have dinner. Kennedy also spoke to Andrea and told her of the Escort Committee and the rules for dating as a Theta sister.”
                  “To be fair,” interrupted a sister from the back of the room, “the Escort Committee only has jurisdiction over dates who attend Theta functions. The committee can’t decide a sister can’t have a dinner date with someone.”
                  “Nevertheless,” Quinn continued icily, eyeing the sister who interrupted, “Andrea needs to understand what’s expected of her as a Theta. There are people we date, and people we don’t. And apparently, this person she went out with is a ‘don’t’.”
                  “So, didn’t you say Harper has met the guy?” Carter asked from her seat as secretary. “What does she have to say about him?” The sisters mumbled among themselves until Quinn banged the gavel for attention.
                  “Yes, Harper, why don’t you tell us what you think of him? What do you know?”
                  Harper slowly rose to her feet and looked out at her sisters. “Well, it was very dark, and we were exhausted from sober driver duties, so...I don’t know that we really got a good look at him.”
                  “But didn’t you tell me he is foreign? And works at the library?” A gasp went up around the crowded room.
                  “Well, I think that’s what he said, but I could be wrong.” Harper slowly sank back into her chair, torn between the loyalties of sisterhood and the realization that Andie had the guts to go on a date with a guy that Harper herself would love to have gotten to know.
                  “Apparently, Kennedy’s chat with Andrea didn’t do the trick. We’ll schedule an Escort Committee Oversight meeting and have a talk with our newest sister. Ladies, remember, these rules have been in place for a long time. They protect the Theta name, and they protect you. From dating library employees. Meeting adjourned.”
     
    Chapter Seven
     
                  “Where did you get those?” I demanded for the tenth time. “You just, what, packed them up and took them to college with you?” I leaned in closer to stare at the three paintings. It wasn’t possible. I was looking at an original Picasso, an original Dali, and a two-hundred-year-old Monet, standing close enough to spit on them. I was afraid to breathe since the moisture in my breath could mess them up or something, but Javier just looked at me.
                  “You like them? They are my favorites from home, so I bring them here with me!” He crossed his arms casually and smiled, like he had just shown me pictures of his dog or eighth grade science fair project.
                  “But, how? How do you even have these?” My mind suddenly leapt from he-brought-me-here-because-he-thinks-I’m-easy to