Get Spoiled after Travelling into A Novel

Chapter 287 Twists of Fate

Amid the crowd’s buzz, Stephanie went to Milly, grinning, and asked, “Milly, would you like to come to my coming–of–age party?”

Milly’s eyebrow quirked up. puzzled over Stephanie’s move.

What was the deal with inviting folks to the Burnett digs? Milly figured, even if Stephanie had stashed her stuff, could she honestly expect Jordan and Grandpa to play along and act clueless about her?

Before Milly could get a word out, someone in the vicinity started poking fun, “Stephanie, why are you bothering with her invite? Didn’t she just give you a hard time?”

“Seriously, someone as nasty as her shouldn’t even step in your place. She’ll never be on your level, ever.”

“Exactly, just brush her off.”

Following the buttering up, the crowd gradually huddled around Stephanie, leaving her encircled, and drifted away.

At last, they cleared out!

Milly sighed in relief, glad to drop the pretence of a grin.

Yet, she couldn’t shake off her curiosity as everyone grouped around Stephanie for a chat. Meanwhile, Lucius was just there, all stone–faced, not bothering to look their way.

Milly blinked, “You’re not heading over?”

Lucius glanced down at her. “You want me to go over?”

Milly was all for it initially, but then, she caught a whiff of his cold indifference, making her freeze.

“Uh…” a thought swiftly ran through his mind. “We’re all mates here, should be backing each other up. If you don’t mingle, wouldn’t that come off as standoffish?”

Lucius kept his poker face, “Then tag along”

go over now, it’ll just rile her up

for now.”

“Well, I also…”

“No, you gotta go!”

sit well with Lucius, his expression turning sour

“Because, uh…”

why, indeed? She couldn’t outright say it’s to play it safe and stick to the typical story are, could she? Spill that,

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up, and thrive together. Since I’ve got our classmate peeved, as my bud, you should help me make amends. Or are you saying you don’t consider us

genuinely thankful for the first time for having the ‘we’re just mates‘

be at a loss for words now,

owned up to being this person, he’d need to leave right away to be there for Stephanie. But if he kept about who he was for now, that would be even better for her. It’d be the perfect chance for her to gently pull away from

exactly what I’m hoping

surprise, her smile reaching her eyes which then locked with a set of dark, mysterious ones. Her smile paused,

was deep, old, worn, unwavering, almost

to fail to capture

a shiver of

could say more, he had already turned away,

kept in until the afternoon training session, and since Lucius went off to find Stephanie, he’s

it’s just something Milly’s making up in her head, but she gets

out a guy who acts all aloof and

all good, just as long as he’s not sticking too close to her, he’s free to

Xavier said the training was gonna be in the mountains, she figured it was probably just a small hill.

woods, she could have thought

this scene was pretty cool too, offering a refreshing change

scenery.

everyone. Stephanie was on her own mission, constantly nagging Lucius, while Xavier tagged along, making sure Stephanie stayed out