Staring at the two family members who returned her gaze with amused faces, Zoe decided that she would pay them back soon. She always had thestugh. She just has to be patient and calctive, just like the other times. They would pay. She swore vehemently.


    “Are you doneughing?” She finally asked them with a faux smile, when theirughter abated; not wanting them to bask in the thrill that their suddenughter had irked her no small deal.


    “We could continue if you want.” Derek replied, determined to humiliate the girl who had dared to taint his cousin’s reputation.


    “I don’t see why you should. There’s no clown here.” She stated, folding her arms across her chest, ignoring the voice in her head that was actually telling her to stop confronting the handsome Alpha’s son, and walk away. No. She never run from a battle like this one.


    “Well, that’s because you’re the clown… baby girl.” She heard Maya say with a smirk, speaking up for the first time, and balked in surprise. She hadn’t been expecting it. When had the eagle with cut out wings grown a new pair? She thought.


    “What the fuck! Did Maya just put Zoe to her ce?”


    “Seems like that girl. Seems the big girl hase back evolved.”


    “Ohoo.. I love this.”


    “This would ease off the boredom.”


    “Bro, do you know if she has gotten a mate yet?”


    “I don’t know. We will know thatter.”


    “Why do you think she is back?”


    ” Her brother’s birthday, I think?”


    ” And she didn’te alone. She’s with Derek.”


    ” I think he is hotter than Leo.”


    ” Look at those broad shoulders…”


    ” Wow, now that’s what I call aeback.”


    ” I’m d the reign of the witch is over.”


    ” Nice for someone to put her in her ce for once. She is just the daughter of one of the council men.”


    ” The lesser one you mean…”


    ” Hahahahahaha… you’re so mean.”Property ? of N?velDrama.Org.


    ” Her face is red with anger.”


    ” Wheew, serves her right.”


    ” I’m going nowhere man.”


    ” I think our pack is about to get interesting.”


    ” Do you notice that Maya is more beautiful?”


    ” Yeah, it seems like she went off the grid for a month, and came back looking hotter. Wow, those eyes and creamy skin… I would have to ask if she’s using anything extra?”


    ” Do you think she went into the city?”


    ” I don’t know. But I heard from my mom that the ck Moon’s Pack allowed their youths to attend college… so perhaps…”


    ” Lucky them…”


    ” Damn, those backsides…”


    “Zoe looks like an ugly broomstickpared to Maya.”


    ” My thoughts exactly. No matter how she tries, she still can’t out best her.”


    ” Yeah, I heard from one of my human friends that Maya hadn’t really coveted Zoe’s boyfriend, it had actually been the other way around. The dude had been smitten with Maya’s looks.”


    ” I thought as much. I had difficulty believing it then. She didn’t seem like the girl to run around like her friends.”


    ” Uhuh, so the naughty Zoe had utilized the opportunity to taint her name and take away her friends.”


    ” Well, it seems it won’t hold out any longer. The queen is back, and I doubt she would still be her old cowering self.”


    Zoe almost shut her ears with her two hands as she heard the numerous murmurs going all around her. Rather, she tightened her fists further that her knuckles shone white.


    “What did you just say?” She asked through gritted teeth, daring Maya to repeat her statement, already ready to wipe off that mock grin on thetter’s face if she should repeat her earlier statement.


    But before Maya could say something, Derek cut in immediately, as if sensing what was going on in Zoe’s head. Not that he was afraid for his cousin. No. Actually he trusted that she could beat up the almost brte in a fight. But he just wanted to do it, to savour his responsibility as a brother.


    He had been so d when he had heard her throw out a jab at the girl whose presence already irritated him. And as he had watched thetter’s face ashen in embarrassment and shock, he had remembered her.


    Not from Maya’s tales this time around, but from his.


    He remembered that when they had been little, she had been one of those who had tried by crook or by hook to join their clique. Once, she had set up Shane, and had stille around to save him, in order to earn their friendship. But she hadn’t known that he had been watching her gimmicks from afar. He had disliked her since then, not wanting to do anything with such a person, even at a young age. Connecting the dots, he wasn’t really surprised that she was the same person. She had always been evil, like his uncle.


    “So apart from being foolish, you’re also deaf. Wow, a deaf clown. I don’t think I have seen or heard of this before. Have you Coz?” He turned his face to Maya, and asked, expecting her to continue ying along.


    ” Nah, this one is new. Do you think we should take her to the Pack’s doctor? Who knows? She might be suffering from clown-deafisis.” Maya replied innocently, not wanting to disappoint her cousin who was standing up for her,  still feeling happy with herself, loving the new her, well, the new her that she was acting out. She had been surprised when she had talked out her thoughts aloud, that she had almost taken it back and apologized, but not until she had seen the look on Zoe’s face. She didn’t think she would forget the silly look in a hurry.


    “You…. bitch…” Zoe shrieked in fury, unable to contain her rage any longer. She raised up her right hand to p Maya, but her hand was caught in the air instantly.


    She turned her head in surprise to her right, after noting the suprise look on Maya’s face and the amused one on Derek’s face, and then the position of his hand; it was still entangled with Maya’s.


    So who was holding her hand? She thought, as she turned.


    “Leo…” She croaked out in shock, not believing her eyes, as she observed the angry look on his face. He was supposed to be standing by her side, defending her honour.


    “What do you think you’re about to do?” He asked in annoyance, before letting her hand drop down.