Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 71

Chapter 71: 71-The Girl Who Dressed Like A Boy

Clementine:

I watched the color drain from my stepsister’s face. My shoulders started to rise again, my back erect and a confident smile on my lips.

"We should go and speak in private," my father suggested.

Now that the eyes had turned to my sister, suddenly my father was realizing that the conversation was too private to be mentioned in public. But he had been fine watching me get dragged and embarrassed in front of his guests before.

"Why would we move to the private?" Haiden asked, hands on his waist before they slowly slipped into his pants pockets.

The way he was looking at my father, I bet even my father felt the heat of his gaze. There was no way Haiden was looking at him just for this reason. He was combining the anger in him and showing it through his body language.

"Leysa made a little mistake. So what? She thought it was her pendant." Of course my stepmother had to chime in. She couldn’t stay quiet for too long, especially when her own daughter was mentioned.

"But where was your tongue when it was about Clementine? And it wasn’t just a mistake. Your daughter accused Clementine of stealing. She’s a crusader. Did you all bring us here just to insult us?" Yorick finally opened his mouth and everybody turned to look at him. I guess they weren’t expecting my dorm mates to be so supportive of me. I understand why. We had this perception that once teenagers or a werewolf are taken to the academy, they pretty much live a lonely, mindless life. They have no friends. They have nothing else going on.

It was once I was in the dorm room that I realized a whole new world, a whole new relationship starts there. It isn’t only about fighting the monsters in the north.

"Well, it was a mistake on behalf of my daughter, but she did not mean ill. Did you not hear her say it was okay?" my stepmother said, looking directly into Yorick’s eyes, almost like she was challenging him to say something in return.

"She repeated herself a few too many times trying to convince us it was okay." Yorick hissed back.

That was when I felt like we were doing too much. We needed to make it seem like we were happy here and that we weren’t onto them, so we could move on to the next phase of our plan.

"It’s all right. Thank you so much for standing up for me." I finally started to speak, and I guess that irked my stepmother. I had never been able to speak up for myself. Even though I wasn’t the silent type and would always argue back, I was never given a chance.

Before I could even say something, my father’s warriors would drag me back to the attic and lock me in. But today, they would have to listen to me.

"As for you, Leysa, these diamonds, gold— it’s temporary. I mean, it’s okay for you since you have nothing else to do. So it’s fine. You can stare at them, get ready, and look pretty. But it’s high time you think about your life. You can’t just look pretty. Learn to be a better version of yourself. You can’t just take and take from Father. Make him proud like I did," I said, tilting my head and looking at my father with a smirk on my lips.

The way he was looking at me, I could almost feel the humiliation in him. That was all it took to humiliate him, to remind him that he used to say I was never the one who would make him proud.

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