After seeing that more and more people were gathering around, Yorick cared too much about his reputation to stay, so he left first.

As soon as Yorick walked away, Justus turned to sneer at me. “You’re already Hoyles’s apprentice. Why are you still running around seducing people?”

“?” I looked at him in confusion.

“Stop pretending to be innocent. It’s disgusting!” Justus looked furious.

“I am innocent. Are you blind, Justus? Yorick just dragged me away by force, and you’re saying I’m dating him? That I seduced him?”

“If you didn’t deliberately lead him on, why would he treat you like that instead of someone else?”

I rolled my eyes....