Chapter 233
Clementine:
“How fucking dare you?” I didn’t even say anything specific, and Lady Gracie started to freak out p>
Of course, she wouldn’t get questioned for it. But maybe it would ruin her plan. Or if Troy’s father was decent enough to put things together, he would realize that this evil woman wanted Troy gone. She had used me to take him down.
If only Troy had been mature enough to listen to me at that time, things might have been different now. But I guess I couldn’t expect a sixteen-year-old to have it all figured out, just like I hadn’t.
I noticed the crowd had already started to gather around us, and among them stood the Lurker. Mrs. Patrick rushed over, trying to diffuse the situation so the happy reunion wouldn’t be ruined.
“I think we will take Clementine away. It seems like she cannot handle alcohol,” Mrs. Patrick hissed, eyeing me to apologize and leave.
“No, I can. Look, I can put it on my head.” I placed a glass on my head, making a fool of myself just for the sake of our plan.
“Let’s go, Mom. Lady Hilda is right. Clementine is not able to hold herself up,” Messi commented, and here I was, about to take a final blow.
“Really? I think I can handle it better than you. At least I don’t lose my shit and try to abduct someone and sell them to someone creepy p>
As soon as I made the accusation of trafficking, everybody gasped, and Messi lunged at me. He came at me aggressively, almost as if he was about to attack. That’s when I grabbed the glass I was balancing on my head and doused him with it, throwing it so hard in his face that alcohol splattered everywhere, even on his mother and Mariana’s dresses.
Another gasp erupted.
“Oh my God, what is wrong with you?” Lady Gracie yelled, placing a hand on her son’s chest. He was glaring me down at this point.
I noticed my mates getting anxious in the distance. I had told them not to intervene, because if they did, things would spread wider. We only wanted all the hatred toward one person.
“Why is this girl even here? She should have stayed in the academy!” Lady Hilda was the first to yell.
The Lurker, who had been watching everything, suddenly began to record us. And now, Haiden and Troy came along.
“If she would have stayed, we would have stayed too!” Haiden yelled at his aunt, making her clench her jaw.
Troy stepped forward as well. “Yeah, then we would have never come either p>
As soon as he said that, Lady Gracie turned to look at him.
“Well, then you should have never come. You three should have stayed in the academy and been punished. So that next time, when you do get a chance to visit your loved ones, you behave p>
Lady Gracie had done an amazing job falling for our tricks.
We three suddenly went calm. None of us responded. I bet they even noticed the smiles on our faces as we gave each other head nods like idiots.
“What? Did you want to ruin this night for me?” Mariana picked up, questioning us.
But the Lurker was already making his way through the crowd. As soon as he reached us, he held his phone forward and played something on it.
It was an audio message: Everyone, we are sorry to announce that our crusaders have caused trouble. We will be retreating them. Two cars will come to pick them up. Hopefully, the rest will enjoy their stay while the crusaders return to the academy.
He played the announcement, then turned to us, snapping his fingers three times to let us know we were supposed to gather our things.
As he started to walk away with Haiden, who was going to pack his bags, only Troy and I were left behind.
Messi started to smirk. He probably thought they had done a great job ruining our vacation.
“Let’s go,” Troy gently touched my elbow. “We need to leave. There are two cars. Once we take Haiden with us, we’ll briefly stop at my place to get my bags, then head over to Yorick and Ian. The two cars will be filled with us p>
I was pretty excited to go back to the academy. We still had a lot of days left in the vacation before the others would return and we’d be sent back to the north. During that time, we would spend a good amount of time exposing the academy secrets.
I could also tell that maybe this was why they always sent us away. They noticed the crusaders were very curious this time, so whenever we were at the academy, they would send us off to stop us from investigating.
As we began to walk past Messi, I muttered, “Thank you for reacting p>
I said it in a steady tone, and his smile started to fade. I guess it finally dawned on him that I wanted his reaction, that I wanted to ruin his night.
Before he could mutter anything, his fist clenched, and he stepped forward, but his mother pushed him back, stopping him from responding to me.
Troy and I had already left and were sitting in the car. Haiden arrived only five minutes later, all set to leave.
Once we were in the car, we began our journey to grab Troy’s bags. But now I was sitting between the two, wondering why none of us had taken the seats behind. The other empty car followed right behind us as well.
“I wanted to ask you something,” The two turned to me and spoke in unison, even confusing each other.
“You go ahead,” Haiden said to Troy.
Troy gave him a hand gesture. “No, you go ahead p>
I sat in the middle, staring awkwardly straight.
“Okay, I’ll go first,” Haiden stated, shifting in his seat so his body arched toward us, giving him a better view of both of us. “I want you to tell me, what is your plan about our mate bond p>
As soon as Haiden said that, Troy almost jumped in his seat, turning toward us.
“I was going to ask her the same thing,” he blurted, rushing the words so he wouldn’t be left out.
“Well, tell us,” Haiden pressed, sitting with one leg folded slightly and the other dangling under the seat. It was so cramped for both of them that I was squeezed into the tiniest space between them.
“Yeah, Clementine, we want to know what’s going on in your mind. You can’t just keep running away from that topic. We felt the mate bond, and now we want to know, what do you want? Or who do you want p>
Troy agreed with Haiden, but he whispered the last part, his eyes filled with dark emotions.