“You said something, Valentine?” Zander shifted his gaze as well as grunts towards Valen while he walked further until her table.
The girls who were sitting with Valen on her table fled from there not before mouthing an apology. Everyone sat scared in the canteen except for Valen!
She twisted her mouth with an ‘I don’t care!’ look on her face. Valen behaved like really she was not frightened by the bully Zander and his dark eyes that were staring at her perilously.
While others assumed that her courage came just because she was the mate to the future Alpha, Valen stood her ground without thinking about Ryley at all. For her, he was one of them. No matter what.
What was wrong was wrong in her perspective. She was acting like that not because she was the mate to his best friend but because it was freaking wrong! First day of the new academic year and he was sowing a seed of fear in their hearts. His perilous tone and grievous glares were what she hated, to say the least.
Valen rose from the chair. Her chest heaved frustratingly as she parted her lips to spit back at him, "Yes, I di—"
"We are leaving," Alas she could not finish her words because of Ryley who interrupted her.
"But Ryley," She tried to counter yet her Alpha mate gathered her bag and phone from the table and her wrist.