Chapter 127
Chapter 127: Words of Wisdom
I couldn’t believe Pollux acted the way he did in front of everybody, making me look like aplete
fool. Then to call me a whore! Who did he honestly think he was?
Rage bubbled through me as my blood boiled with anger over the entire situation. I wasn’t sure who my
brother thought he was, speaking to me the way that he did but thankfully our father James had
stepped in to stop the situation.
The moment Pollux grabbed me and forced me to stay to try and listen to him, I felt myself losing
control and that was something I didn’t do often.
Walking into my English ss, I spotted Melissa sitting in our usual spot, her eyes meeting mine
slightly widened as the other students looked at me with curiosity. It wasn’t that I wanted people to fear
me, but most people at this school did.
I simply just ignored it, because after I graduated I was out of this fucking ce.
Moving towards the back of the ssroom, I beelined straight for my seat. Melissa had a grin on her
face spread ear to ear, and I could only imagine the questions she would end
up throwing my way. It wasn’t the first time she witnessed one of our dads pulling us off to the side to
have a sit down, and I doubted it would be thest.
Plopping down at my desk, I pulled out my notebook and opened it to where we had left off with notes
for the exam notes from the day before. Final exams were Friday, and then I would be free from this
prison of a school with graduation the following week.
The one thing keeping me sane every single day I woke up was knowing I would be leaving this ce
soon, and Melissa and I would be starting over somewhere new.
“OK, ss, now that ourst participant finally decided to arrive, please go ahead and open your
notebooks if you haven’t so I can go over everything that you’re going to need to study on for Friday’s
exam,” Miss Abel said as she turned towards the board and began to write down various different
things we were expected to take notes on.
She was an older woman, with graying brown hair and thick-framed sses. She had been in the pack
for as long as I can remember, and even though she was nice to everyone else, she, for some reason,
couldn’t stand me.
“How did it go?” Melissa whispered, causing me to look at her from the corner of my eye. “Was it bad?”
“Just as you would have expected,” I replied with a sigh, trying to keep my tone down low so Miss Abel
wouldn’t hear
us having a conversation while she was trying to teach ss. That pissed her off more than anything.
Interrupting students with a bad attitude. Also known as me… She hated me.
“Did your dad ground you from the party this weekend? We had ns, Cass.”
Scoffing withughter, I shook my head in amusement. “It’s my party. Why would they turn around and
not let me go to my own birthday party?”
“True,” she said, pointedly letting out a sign of relief. “I’d cry if that happened.”
The gleam of the sun through the open window caught her just right at the moment, making her seem
as if she were glowing. There was something about my friend I found ex tremely attractive. From the
soft brown waves of her hair to the dark charcoal colored gray of her eyes. She was beautiful, even
though she didn’t think she was.
Melissa wasn’t just beautiful. She was extremely intelligent and though her t chest, stick figured body
gave her ack of confidence she shouldn’t have, I couldn’t help but admire how increasingly lucky I
was to have her by my side.
She had stuck by me through everything, and I was grate ful. However, even though she was only my
friend, every now and again, I couldn’t help but wonder what it would be like to taste those plump pink
lips of hers and have her as more than just my friend.
“Are you listening to me?” she whispered, pulling me out of the daze I was in. I hadn’t been listening. I
had been think ing of the many things we could do together and in doing so,pletely embarrassed
myself.
The heat of my embarrassment was upon my cheeks as I pushed a smile on my face and shrugged my
shoulders. “Sor ry, I was just thinking about something. What did you say?”
Rolling her eyes, she smiled. “I was asking you if what they said about you and Lucas was true.”
Lucas. I couldn’t help butugh to myself, thinking about what they said. Yes, it was true. I had been
seen going into the woods with him, but as far as having sex with him, absolutely not. He had bet me I
couldn’t beat him in a race with my wolf, and of course, I proved him wrong.
After beating his ass in the race, I left him in the dust to wander his way back to the encampment,
where I turned around and took his clothes. That way, he would only be able to maneuver back through
the party either naked or in his shifted form.
Lucas was incredibly sexy and yeah, sometimes I felt the urge to want to do more with him, but that
definitely wasn’t going to happen anytime soon. I wasn’t a virgin, but I also wasn’t looking. Unless you
count on being interested in my best friend.
I had too much to focus to worry about stuff like that.
“No, Melissa, don’t you think I would have told you had I hooked up with Lucas? You know how I feel
about that stuff.
I’m focusing on what’s toe. I mean, we have a future we’re going to be entertaining once we get
out of this ce. I’m not looking to make a mistake.”
The sound of Miss Abel clearing her voice loudly caught my attention, and ncing towards her, I
noticed everybody in the ss had turned and looked at me. “I’m sorry,dies. Am I interrupting an
important conversation? Because I could have sworn I was teaching you about the final exams, you
had this Friday. I’d prefer not to see you again after this year.”
Ouch, that was unnecessary. “My apologies, Miss Abel. I can assure you that Melissa and I will pass
your exam because
we don’t really want to see you anymore, either.” My ss mates turned into a fit of snickering, causing
Miss Abel’s face to go red.
“Then you won’t mind spending the rest of your afternoon
in detention.”
“Unfortunately, as lovely as that sounds, Miss Abel, my fa ther James already has ns for me after
school and, there fore, I won’t be able to attend,” I replied, trying to make it seem like there was no way
she could keep me, but instead the
N?velDrama.Org holds text ? rights.
fucking woman went to the phone, picked it up and undoubt edly called my father.
After a few moments, she hung up the phone with a smile on her face, as the hatred of her poured into
my heart. “Good news. Your father told me to tell you he’ll pick up the medica tion for you so that you
can stay here until four o’clock, when detention is over.”
“Shit,” I muttered, with irritation. She had couldn’t be fuck ing serious.
As I turned my gaze back to Melissa, she quickly shut her mouth, shaking her head. There was no way
in hell she was going to spend detention with me, even if she was my best friend. She had shit to do,
and I knew it.
By the time ss was done and I finally made my way from the hell of Miss Abel, I left ss with
Melissa at my side in search of a vending machine. I was stressed, and a cold soda was just the
amount of caffeine I needed to get through my next ss.
“I can’t believe that you got detention. Do you just enjoy pissing her off?” Melissa asked while digging
through her purse to pull out a piece of gum.
“She’s a cow,” I replied, rolling my eyes. “I could breathe the wrong way, and she would try to turn it into
a reason to call my parents and put me into detention.”
next few days.
school.”
As our banter continued back and forth, I didn’t hear the approaching footsteps andughter of Ashley,
and her posse of irritating ass-kissers, but when I turned around, she stood there expectantly as if she
had something to say.
“Can I help you?” I said tly as I opened my soda and pro ceeded to drink from it. I only had ten
minutes until my next ss, and thest thing I wanted to do was entertain her.
With long blonde hair and makeup stered onto her face, she was the spitting image of Barbie, simply
missing her Malibu beach doll house. She may have been dating my broth er and had been for years,
but I knew that was only because she suckered him in.
The girl was a nobody, and then over the summer in sev enth grade, she blossomed or did something
because she came back to school in eighth grade with boobs, a tiny waist, and all sorts of other
enhancements.
Then her attention was on my brother.
She stared at me for a moment, crossing her arms over her shoulders as she looked at her perfectly
manicured nails. “I just wanted to remind you not to be an embarrassment this weekend. It may be your
birthday too, but it’s about Lux and I. We will be announced as the New Luna and Alpha of the pack.”
Laughter erupted from my throat as I looked over at Melissa, who wasughing her ass off, too. I had
to give it to Ashley, she was pretty damn confident and yet didn’t realize how ridiculous she sounded.
“You do realize that’s not how that works, right? Lux has to go into training for a year without you
because you’re not al lowed to go and even if he didn’t have to do that, my parents aren’t stepping
down anytime soon. He could be in his thirties before he actually bes the Alpha and I don’t even
know why you think you’re going to be Luna. You’re not even his mate.”
“You don’t know that!” she snapped, stomping her foot on the ground. “I am his!”
Her frustration was entertaining, and as I looked at her friends, I could see how confused they were
over what I said. “Y’all didn’t actually believe she was going to be Luna, did you? My brother can barely
stand to be around her anymore.”
I couldn’t quite understand why she was delusional enough to think she was going to be the woman he
spent his life with.
My brother and I fought like cats and dogs, but I knew my brother well enough to know he would never
spend his life with a woman like Ashley. He wanted someone who would support and challenge him at
times. Not some idiot who thought herselt a pampered princess.
Gasping with a faint heart expression, she stared at me with wide eyes. “How dare you speak to me
like that? You have no right. My position with Lux gives me authority over you-”
“I’m going to stop you right there,” I sighed with a smile as I cut her off mid-speech. “You have no
authority over me, and you need to learn that very quickly. If you can’t see how unin terested my
brother has been in youtely, that’s your prob lem. I don’t me him for sleeping with you. Why go
search ing for something when you can easily pick up the phone and have it delivered…”
A look of utter shock and disbelief crossed her face as | pushed past her with Melissa. She was as
speechless as the girls with her, but as I continued walking, she let out a scream of anger. “You will
regret this!”
I didn’t bother to turn around and look at her. Instead, I waved my hand in the air before giving her the
middle finger as I kept walking away. “Whatever you have to tell yourself to make yourself feel better,
Ashley. Keep up the good work. Maybe being easy will pay off for you someday.”
Melissa grabbed my arm,ughing as we continued walk ing down the hall, leaving Ashley behind us to
stew over my words of wisdom. I didn’t care if she cried andined to anyone or even plotted
against me.
170 She wasn’t my problem, and if she pissed me off enough, she would simply meet a side of me that
would haunt her dreams for the rest of her life.