Helanie:
"I heard you made an announcent about Helanie," Lord McQuoid asked Emt, shifting his attention from his food to him during dinner.
I had been watching Emt to make sure he was okay, and he seed completely fine.
"It was needed to be done." I noticed the lack of confidence compared to last ti in Emt’s words. He was so determined on the academy grounds when making that announcent. But tonight, he looked troubled as he kept glancing at Kaye and Maximus.
It was then that I realized he might have gotten scolded by Maximus.
"He announced Helanie as his stepsister?" My mother put her fork down, her tone sharp and shocked.
"Yeah, Ursula, it was important. She was getting bullied nonstop," Lord McQuoid seed to have known this would upset my mother, so he quickly tried explaining.
However, the look on my mother’s face didn’t change.
She looked unconvinced.
"The rising student needs soone to defend herself," Of course, Charlotte had sothing to add. She let out a snicker and then lowered her head. Her mother gently elbowed her while laughing under her breath with her.
"Charlotte!" Maximus yelled, causing her to suddenly stop laughing and raise her head to look at him.
"You think bullying is funny?" he asked her sternly, making notice the anger in his eyes as he kept glaring at her.
"No—I didn’t an to laugh," she stuttered while tearing up.
"Don’t speak if you can’t say anything useful," Maximus hissed at her while Emma shared a glance with Lord McQuoid. She wanted him to see how his son was speaking to Charlotte, who now had tears streaming down her face. She lowered her head and started wiping her cheeks with the back of her hand.
"Maximus, she has a mother for that. You don’t need to scold her," Lord McQuoid understood the situation and stepped in to defend Charlotte, who sat right next to my mother.
My mom looked visibly disturbed for Charlotte, so she wrapped her arm around Charlotte’s shoulder to comfort her.
"And her mother is not doing a great job. She was snickering along, did you not see that?" Maximus was beginning to get louder and louder.
I raised my head and noticed Emt staring at . He had his hand stretched out on the table while holding a fork in the other hand. His eyes seed to hold secrets.
I shook my gaze away from him to Maximus and Lord McQuoid.
"Maximus, that is no way to speak about an elder," Lord McQuoid had made it clear that he was biased. He would go as far as to yell at his sons just for the sake of my mother’s friend.
"That is no way to speak to your son either. And please tell , what did Maximus say wrong?" I guess at this point, we had all been waiting for Norman to speak up since he always did for his brothers.
He usually waits for so ti to hear the full debate and then strikes while the iron is hot.
Lord McQuoid shifted his gaze to Norman. I could tell he was getting tired of Norman always speaking up for his brothers and going against him.
"Norman!" Lord McQuoid said, giving up.
I felt like I was responsible for this argunt. I slowly pushed my chair back and got up. "I’m full. Have a good night."
The feeling of being the reason for argunts was horrible. Besides, the fact that my mother comforted Charlotte, despite knowing Charlotte was wrong, hurt even more.
Everybody went silent as I walked past them toward the exit. I had just stepped out when I heard Kaye grunt.
"Are you happy now, Dad? Taking Charlotte’s side ant you didn’t acknowledge her subtle bullying towards Helanie."
"I didn’t know she would get upset!" Lord McQuoid’s response was the last thing I heard.
I walked straight back to my room, sat on the couch, and turned off all the lights.
I reread Sage’s text about placing the caras in the cave.
Topsenior-Sage: The caras are all set. By tomorrow morning, we will have our answers and the scumbag of a lycan.
I fidgeted with my fingers nervously. He is my mate, and he is a human. What if—it is soone I don’t want as a mate? Or soone who instantly tells everyone that we are mated?
I hated the fact that I had so many secrets. I needed to share them with Lamar. I called him many tis, but he didn’t pick up, so I assud he was busy with Gavin.
So I just sat there, my eyes on the passage between my window and Emt’s sanctuary.
A few minutes before midnight, I watched Emt step out onto the passage and stare at the sky. Then, he began heading toward the exit.
I was more curious than ever now. It didn’t make sense. Why was he sneaking out like that?
I held the torn fabric in my hands, and the minute Emt was out of sight, I heard a howl erupt through the air.
My body shuddered at the familiarity of the howl. It wasn’t just a wolf’s howl—it was a lycan’s howl.
I began to recall all the tis I had seen Emt in the corridor or the ti when we were at a motel, and he had to leave so desperately. That sa night, the lycan had attacked so werewolves and probably fought them. I rember Emt having a bite mark on his neck.
I knew what I was about to do was wrong, but I needed to know the truth. Since he had left, I jumped out of the window and headed straight through the corridor. It was so cold here at this ti. The wind from both sides was turning into an ice cube.
Once I reached his room, I noticed he was so comfortable that he hadn’t even locked it. That made feel guilty for so reason. Nobody should have to worry about soone sneaking into their room when they aren’t around. But I had a reason to do so.
I looked around and saw a piece of paper placed on the bed. It was a drawing of the cave.
He knew about the lycan?
Or was he the lycan?
It had been right before my eyes all this ti. How did I miss it?
As my suspicions were confird, I yelped when I rembered the cara in the cave. Tomorrow morning, Sage and the others would find out it was Emt.
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