Chapter 119

119-The Girl In His Room “The Mountains?” Helel asked me to be double sure he heard me correctly.

“Yeah! The mountains that everybody is talking about,” I said, and he kept staring at my face in silence.

“Not everybody, only Zane. He is the only one who decid- ed the entire trip with Mr. Mykel. None of the other brothers agreed on it. In fact, Akin and I have been meaning to have a talk with Mr. Mykel to cancel this so-called trip to hell. And now you want me to not only tell Akin I have changed my mind but invite him to the trip too?” Helel had a very bland ex- pression on his face when he asked me if he heard me cor- rectly.

I had to roll my eyes and breathe through my nostrils to express my exhaustion with these brothers.

“The volcano is not going to erupt. At least not right now.” I tried explaining, but his constant shaking of his head stopped me mid-sentence.

“Fine, let’s hear what plan you can come up with,” I said, folding my arms over my chest. He watched my face in silence and then shrugged his shoulders.

“The mountains are fine, I guess. I don’t want a weredrag- on to transition into a pack,” he finally agreed with me. We discussed a few more things, and then he got up to leave.

“And by the way, it’s not like I am jealous or I want to be official with you. I just don’t want you to befriend someone out of frustration and then regret it later,” he murmured, stealing his eyes from me.

“Yeah! Thank you!” I rolled my eyes at his desperate need to not sound needy.

“So, then I will convince my brothers and ask Akin to con- vince Gwen to join us on this trip. I must tell Mr. Mykel that I am not allowing the school trip. It will be more like our family trip. And if Gwen is indeed a weredragon, we must keep other students away from her,” as Helel said. We heard something fall outside the room and footsteps rushing away in the hall-way.

Helel and I shared a terrifying glance and then rushed over to check who had been eavesdropping on us. The mo- ment Helel opened the door, we realized there was no one near the stairs. But as Helel and I turned around to my room. again, we saw Maddox standing beside his room’s door and watching us.

“Maddox?” Helel questioned, looking around and then walking up to his brother, who was staring at us in silence.

“What are you doing here?” Helel asked because the tim- ing was odd. Did Maddox hear us talk?

“I heard some noise!” Maddox answered, lowering his face and gently rubbing his chin, “You two —,”

he then raised his head to ask us.

Helel turned to me and gave me a nod. We had to look less suspicious, so Helel was left with no other choice but to state a random lie.

“I was helping her with her studies,” he murmured awk- wardly.

“Since when did you start helping her with her studies?” Maddox inquired, looking shocked.

“Since Akin got busy,” I interrupted to help Helel out of this situation. I could tell Helel was not the best at lying, so the chances of him getting caught in a lie were higher.

“Thank you, Helel, for helping me tonight,” I then passed him a smile and eyed him to leave before Maddox throws some more questions our way and catches us in a lie.

“Let me know if you need any more help,” Helel awkward- ly itched his temples before he walked past me to downstairs.

“So, you were mad at me, but you clearly forgave him.” Maddox let out a sarcastic laugh, muttering and clenching his jaw when trying to put me on the spot.

“Because he apologized,” I said, not getting why I have to explain anything to him.

“Those are just excuses. Tell me one thing,” he paused only so that he could walk closer to me and when his body was only a foot away from mine, he questioned me, “Did you lose your virginity to him?”

I didn’t know what to say. I stared him in the eye and then folded my arms over my chest to compose my posture. He knew the truth now, but I wasn’t guilty of anything. I didn’t promise any of them anything.

“You pushed me away because you wanted him to be your first and now he is also the first one to enter your room again,” Maddox let out a scoff that seemed rather demeaning. I tilted my head to narrow my eyes in his face before I could even respond to him.

“Is that what you want? An open door for you? Don’t you have girls coming in and out of your room, mister?” I asked and grunted, forming a little smile to disrespect him as I eyed behind him.

Dream was peering out of his room to look for him when she found us standing in the hallway.

“Good night.” I gave Maddox a closed-lipped smile before walking into my room and locking the door.

‘He deserved it.’ I haven’t even calmed down yet after Ace spoke up and my anger hit the sky.

‘And you know what you deserve?’ I asked her, briskly walking over to the nightstand to grab a pill.

‘I know you are angry with me, but I had never taken full control over you before. I got scared!’ She tried to explain her- self right away.

I wasn’t that mad at her, but I needed to take the medicine anyway. It wasn’t like I wasn’t afraid of whoever was coming for me. I just found comfort in the pills and was rely- ing on them to hide my scent from that monster after me.

‘Fine, take it. But I wanted to remind you of something first.’ Ace knew my intentions, so she didn’t beg me to let her stay overnight.

‘What?’ I knew she would say some nonsense just to get under my skin, but what she said made me question my deci-sions.

‘You have convinced Helel to go on the mountain trip, but don’t forget, everything comes at a price.

One situation can bring joy to some but a terrifying beginning for the others.’