Chapter forty one

After the very awkward dinner, we said our farewells and left for the night. Ri and I talked for hours in my room. We talked about what I could do to Lucian.

“I can make him food and poison it” I suggest. She laughed at my suggestion.

“I hate how he's treating you but I don't want him dead,” She said.

“As much as I hate to agree but same here. I do not want him dead” I agreed.

“How about I make something he hates and see how he reacts to it” I suggested again.

“Not really my idea of revenge but it will put him in a tough position so yes” She explained.

“Is there anything he hates?” I asked.

“Lucian hates cake” She announced.

“What?” I said laughing. Rip laughed too.

“Exactly my reaction whenever I remember. Who does not love cake!” She screamed.

“Why will he not love cake. I love cake. Do you love cake?”

“I love love cake” She replied.

“I love to bake so I will make cupcakes sometime this week?” I asked.

“Yes. I can help if you want” She offered.

“When the time comes. I'm getting tired” I announced.

“Same here but I don't want to sleep now,” She said making herself comfortable against me as we were both lying down.

“What should we do then?” I asked her.

“Let’s stay like this.”

“Hmmm,” I agreed.

We both slept off in each other's arms.

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I groaned as I stirred in the bed hitting someone. Who did I sleep with last night? I rubbed the sleep off my eyes as I sat up to see Ri still very much asleep. Her long red hair sprawled around the pillow. I stood up and went into the bathroom quietly to avoid waking her up. I brushed my teeth, packed my hair up and washed my face. When I finished Ri was still asleep. I did not want to leave her alone so I decided it was time I finally arranged my clothes and every other thing I bought when Lucian took me out.

I dragged the shopping bags to the closet, poured the content of each bag on the floor and I sat down on the floor to sorry the clothing. I started with the underwear. When I was sure I picked every single piece of underwear out I carried them and dumped them in the first drawer on the dressing mirror. I went for my shorts and baggy tops. I continued to sorry these clothes until I got bored.

Already bored out of my mind from all the silence and no interesting feud story to read to keep me company I laid down on the remaining clothes with my eyes closed facing the ceiling.

“You should have woken me up” I sat up and stared at Ri.

“You needed the rest. It's no big deal” I swore.

“Sure?”

“Yes, I am. You do a lot for me Ri not helping to arrange my closet should be the least of your problems right now” I told her.

“It doesn't feel right. I'll help” She announced jumping down. I chuckled.

With Henrietta’s help, I was done faster than I had thought. We already missed breakfast, not like I cared but I was concerned about Ri.

“You should clean up so you can have lunch” I instructed.

“Yes ma’am,” She said in between laughs.

“See you later?” I nodded

“Yes. Thank you for your help” I thanked her pulling her in for a hug.

“Anytime. See you later Rain” With that she left. I quickly cleaned the floor before going into my bathroom to clean myself up.

I was in my usual short shorts with a baggy top walking around the pack for no reason. I didn't want to eat and I knew if Ri found out she would force me to eat so I just walked around to avoid everyone. The looks I got didn't go unnoticed but I did not mind. I have not even been introduced officially to the pack and it has been almost a month of me staying here. I bumped into someone and when I saw who it was I walked past the person to walk off when I was stopped.

“I just want to talk”

“And I do not want to talk” I snapped.

“Please Raina. Just hear me out”

“Did Henrietta put you up to this?” I asked.

“Yes and no. I really want to be here. I have a confession to make” She announced. That caught my attention so I looked up at her.

“What did you do this time?” I asked her staring at her blond hair fall on her face.

“I killed Megan” She disclosed

I stared at her for minutes thinking of the many ways I could kill her.

“Why? Did you do it to spite me?

“I did it because I felt like it” She shrugged.

I slumped to the ground and screamed. I cried out because now her death hurts me more knowing she was killed. After all, Lucy did not like me. She killed my only friend because she felt like it! Who the hell does that. I cried out in pain and anger. Nothing was stopping me now! Lucy Grinder will be dead.

“I’m going to kill you!” I screamed at her, my cheeks already stained with tears.

The trees around us shook scaring the hell out of me. I moved away from Lucy.

“Stop it, Lucy. Don't use magic on me now!”I screamed at her angrily.

“I’m not doing anything” She smirked. This bitch!. I lunged forward and punched her nose. It started to bleed immediately. She did not look surprised at this. She cleaned the blood off. My breathing slowed down a bit after that one punch, the trees stopped moving.

“What the hell was that?” I asked.

“First, I did not kill your friend. Second, I said that so you could see what you were capable of when your emotions get heightened”

“This is not a joke Lucy. Why did you kill her?” I asked.

“I didn't kill her like I just explained. You are capable of doing a lot that you don't know about”

“So lying about killing my friend was for what?” I frowned at her.

“Before I go into that I want to know if I am forgiven?” I laughed.

“You must be sick if you think that was an apology for how you treated me”. She sighed.

“I am sorry Raina. Nothing like that will happen again. I hope we can move past any quarrels we had in the past”

“I will forgive you if you apologise in your words and not a practised speech given to you by Jack,” I told her. She rolled her eyes.

“You really have to be this difficult? By the way, the speech was a good one” She defended.

“Yeah, if you wrote it yourself” I responded.

“I initially wanted to explain why I did everything I did but Jack thought it was a way of me justifying my actions so he disagreed with me,” She said. Honestly, I wanted to hear it.

“And if I tell you I am interested in hearing it?”

“I will be happy to start now,” She said.

“I can stand anymore” I complained. She took me to the garden she always stayed in and started instantly.

“One I know I was being dramatic about how I handled the whole thing. I didn't tell Lucian to support me, he did that all on his own. I just wanted you to work for our trust. When you came in you were so comfortable with everything and I was jealous because that was not how I was when I got here for the first time”

“So you wanted me to have a hard time?” I asked unbelievably. She is really petty about that.

“And destroying the library, was that because did not thank you for saving my life?” I asked her curiously. She went overboard for that. Ri showed me the pictures.

“Actually I didn't do that” She confessed.

“Who did it then and why did you blame me” I interrogated.

“Because you did it” She explained.

“I was not there that night and you know it. You were busy trying to kill me” I snapped at her.

“I am saying the truth. You were scared and that affected where your mind was on which was the book you took the night I made you remember who I was. The book’s home was the library and that affected the place” She explain led further.

“I still do not understand how I did all of this but how do you know so much?” I questioned.

“Does that mean I have forgiven?” she asked. I frowned at her.

“Are you blackmailing me into forgiving you?” I was dumbfounded. She smiled.

“If that's how you want to put it” She answered.

“You are unbelievable”

“Does that mean we have a deal?” She stretched her hands forth. Despite my disagreements really needed to know more.

“Yes,” I replied. She took my hands and shook them.

“Thank you” She smiled as we both left.

Wow!