Leilani.
The crowd grew silent as everyone turned to stare at , but above all their piercing gazes and the murmurs that rippled through them like a disruption in a still pond, Chalice’s gaze stood out to the most.
She looked... betrayed.
Completely and utterly betrayed.
If I didn’t know better, I would’ve thought that I had hurt her beyond asure. Like my actions were unforgivable... like I was the worst possible person to ever exist.
And maybe she was right.
Maybe this was just who I was when I wanted to get back at soone for hurting as much as she did.
I smirked when she wouldn’t stop glaring at , but now, I was no longer looking at her. I was staring pointedly at Clent who doesn’t seem to know if he should go or stay.
If he should speak or not.
He pald his trousers once... then twice. And as if still not satisfied with that, he continued to wipe down on his pants as if looking for so magical kind of dryness. As if that could automatically rid him of his involvent with Chalice. And goddess, I wanted to laugh at him.
He gulped thickly as he ca to shakily stand in the centre of the room and with his eyes downcast, he whispered; "Why do you want here? What do you want to say?"
"What’s your involvent with Chalice... or Candy as the case may be?" I snapped back imdiately, not even bothering to sugarcoat my words.
At my utterance, I vaguely heard the sound of soone’s breath hitching, and it wasn’t until that mont that my gaze flickered once again to Chalice who was still kneeling in front of Kael with tears filling her eyes.
"She is my... she was my student." He stuttered,
"And besides that, what was the relationship you both shared?" That was Caelum and I sighed when his eyes t mine, a small smile spreading across his lips as he shrugged.
And I know that this may not be the right ti to say this, but seeing him like this... acting so self righteous and proud filled with a kind of anger that I couldn’t explain. I do not know why but I still didn’t like him. And fine, maybe he’s tried so many tis in the past to atone for his sins but it doesn’t change the fact that he was the most cruel to .
That he’d been the one to drain of 10 bags of blood... or was it 12? I can’t even rember due to the pain!
I turned away from him when Clent coughed and dropped his head in feigned respect. He answered; "None. We didn’t share any kind of relationship besides that."
And usually, I would’ve believed him if I didn’t know better. My voice sounded colder than it had been monts ago when I asked; "Are you sure?"
He shrugged. "Yes."
Seeing as he wasn’t going to respond truthfully, I nodded once and turned away, my voice cold and detached as I spat; "That’s okay then."
"What’s okay?" He asked quickly with wide eyes that darted between and Chalice. But even like this, I noticed the way his eyes lingered on her for a second too long. The way he licked his lips even without knowing...
"Maybe we can force the words out of your mouth." I drawled after fixing him with the iciest glare I could muster and maybe that did its thing because then he shuddered visibly and began to tremble. He wrapped his arms around his chest and rasped;
"No. No! Stop no!"
But I hadn’t done anything to him yet. I wasn’t even interested in interrogating him. However, his response only went to show that there was more to this than ets the eye... and that in itself made very curious.
I took a step closer to him but just as I did, my head swam. My vision waned for a very brief mont, and goddess, I staggered, almost falling to the floor until three pairs of arms caught from different angles.
The triplets.
My breath hitched when surges of electricity rushed through my veins and I imdiately shrugged them off, sounding unappreciative as I snapped;
"I am fine! I do not need help!"
If they were mad at my response, then they did well to perfectly hide it as they nodded ekly and retracted their hands. But even now, I could still feel them... could still feel the uncomfortable sensation running up my back, reminding of that mont they all touched all at once.
I bit my lips in annoyance and thinned my eyes at Clent whose eyes were now clenched shut. He spat; "I really have nothing with Chalice. She is just a thief I intend to get back at for stealing all my money!"
At his words, the crowd gasped in disbelief but the culprit herself seed unfazed.
She seethed; "Don’t just tell them that! Tell them about how you humiliated !"
"And tell them about how you were slapping her ass so fearlessly only a few minutes ago even after knowing that her husbands— us— are in the sa room as you." Caelum added, and that there made freeze in shock.
I turned slowly to et Clent’s gaze and what I found now wasn’t just annoyance. It was a blend of panic and sha. And sothing else... sothing that looked like disgust.
I frowned.
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Chalice.
Several months after Leilani fled from the pack after being accused of Grandma Aurora’s death and I noticed to my utmost befuddlent that her mates were still clinging onto the mories of her and to the hopes that she would return, I devised a new plan.
To study abroad!
My plan had been simple. To leave. To go to school and have fun. To learn tech just like Leilani had been learning, and most especially, to create an environnt where they would have no other option but to miss !
But that wasn’t the entire reason I’d left. It wasn’t the only reason I’d asked my parents to help flee from the pack like a thief in the night.
I’d left because for so absurd reason, I’d been ridden with guilt. It was because I couldn’t bring myself to look at Grandma’s garland-decorated pictures without feeling so type of way in my guts.
And coupled with that, I couldn’t stop thinking about Jennifer too— the girl that Louis had killed while following my commands. The sa girl who for so strange reason was the genesis of this crisis in the very first place.
These thoughts were the things that plagued as I got into my plane with the intention of going to study at the Duke’s University.
And that was where I had t Clent for the first ti.
He had started off as my statistics lecturer in my first year who I always suspected looked at in a way that was too sensual for a teacher-student relationship... then he beca my boyfriend... and then my pimp and before I knew it, I was performing all sorts of atrocities with him— Be it sexual and non sexual. You just na it!
The mory made a shiver run down my spine, and as I stared at his beady eyes now filled with apprehension, I couldn’t help but think back to the ti when I used to look up to those sa eyes in panic, hoping that he would have rcy on .
But he never did.
Instead, he broke ... and broke until I was nothing but a pile of shit before him.
Now, if I must burn, then he must burn with ... even Louis!
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