Freya’s POV

For a solid five seconds, I genuinely thought I’d misheard him.

There was no way.

No way.

I’d heard the rumors, sure. Everyone had. Whispers in the dorm hallways, half-baked theories in the cafeteria, the occasional Reddit thread someone pretended not to care about but definitely read. The heiress to the Pallas Consortium was enrolled in our college.

Everyone thought it was Stella.

I thought ...