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.

my eyes at his

I will 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

eavesdropping on us. The mo- ment Helel opened the door, we realized there was no one near the stairs. But as Helel and I turned around to my room. again, we saw Maddox standing

to

are you doing here?” Helel asked because the tim- ing was odd. Did Maddox

gently rubbing his chin, “You two —,” he then raised his head to ask us.

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

her

you start helping her with her studies?” Maddox inquired, looking

interrupted to help Helel out of this situation. I could tell Helel was not the best at lying, so the

tonight,” I then passed him a smile and eyed him to leave before Maddox throws some more questions our way and catches us in a lie.

more help,” Helel awkward- ly itched his temples before

clearly forgave him.” Maddox let out a sarcastic laugh, muttering and clenching his jaw when trying to put me on the

why I have

Tell me one thing,” he paused only so that he could walk closer to me and when his body

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