Sharing Beatrice A Luna To Her Stepbrothers by Alexis Dee

119-The Girl In His Room

“The Mountains?” Helel asked me to be double sure he heard me correctly.

“Yeah! The mountains that everybody is talking about,” I said, and he kept staring at my face in silence.

“Not everybody, only Zane. He is the only one who decid- ed the entire trip with Mr. Mykel. None of the other brothers agreed on it. In fact, Akin and I have been meaning to have a talk with Mr. Mykel to cancel this so-called trip to hell. And now you want me to not only tell Akin I have changed my mind but invite him to the trip too?” Helel had a very bland ex- pression on his face when he asked me if he heard me cor- rectly.

I had to roll my eyes and breathe through my nostrils to express my exhaustion with these brothers.

“The volcano is not going to erupt. At least not right now.” I tried explaining, but his constant shaking of his head stopped me mid-sentence.

“Fine, let’s hear what plan you can come up with,” I said, folding my arms over my chest. He watched my face in silence and then shrugged his shoulders.

“The mountains are fine, I guess. I don’t want a weredrag- on to transition into a pack,” he finally agreed with me. We discussed a few more things, and then he got up to leave.

“And by the way, it’s not like I am jealous or I want to be official with you. I just don’t want you to befriend someone out of frustration and then regret it later,” he murmured, stealing his eyes from me.

Thank you!” I rolled my eyes at his desperate need to not

convince my brothers and ask Akin to con- vince Gwen to join us on this trip. I must tell Mr. Mykel that I am not allowing the school trip. It will be more like our family trip. And if Gwen is indeed a weredragon, we

a terrifying glance and then rushed over to check who had been eavesdropping on us. The mo- ment Helel opened the door, we realized there was no one near the stairs. But

and then walking up to his brother, who was staring

tim- ing was odd. Did Maddox hear us

answered, lowering his face and gently rubbing his chin, “You two —,” he then raised

and gave me a nod. We had to look less suspicious, so Helel was left with

was helping her with her studies,”

start helping her with her studies?”

help Helel out of this situation. I could tell Helel was not the best at lying, so the chances of him getting caught in a

then passed him a smile and eyed him to leave before

help,” Helel awkward- ly itched his temples before he walked

Maddox let out a sarcastic laugh, muttering and clenching his

I said, not getting why I have to

so that he could walk closer to me and when his body was only a foot away from mine, he questioned me, “Did you lose

to say. I stared him in the eye and then folded my arms over my chest to compose my posture. He knew the truth now, but I wasn’t guilty of anything. I didn’t