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Nora:

I didn’t want to face Brody again today, but I’m sure I will have to since. we will be training together.

Not only that, but I’ll also have to deal with Ryker, who must be furious with me for leaving with

Brody in the morning.

It felt like I had dug my own grave everywhere. Why the heck did I even talk to Natalya about Brody

and me going out on a date? Why couldn’t I just tell her to mind her own business?

Sighing, I reached the school hallway and noticed eyes on me. It was a bit different today. There

were many students in the hallway, but their attention to me was frightening. They seemed to stare

at me and then whisper in each other’s ears. Some of the girls even wrinkled their noses as they

checked me out from head to toe. I noticed I wasn’t wearing anything bad, so why were they staring

at me like that? I was wearing brown pocket trousers and a green tank top with my hair in a high

ponytail.

Avoiding their gazes, I continued my journey to the lockers. One specific comment got to me and

shook my world when a girl passing by hissed, “Such a whore. You know incest is a crime, right?”

My heart skipped a beat, and my steps halted beyond my control. I watched her swiftly get away so

she couldn’t be questioned. But I know I heard her clearly, and she accused me of something that

had been such a scare to me.

I looked around at the others, and their disgusting gazes only suggested they were probably on the

same page as her.

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“What is going on?” I asked myself, gulping with difficulty. My mouth was turning dry at this point.

Soon the bell rang, and everyone had to disappear.

I had no choice but to attend the classes, knowing that something horrible had been cooking behind

my back.

As I entered the room, I looked around to spot my friends but found the seats next to both April and

Natalya filled. The sight of Natalya. bothered me. I had a huge suspicion about her. I reached for

one of the spare seats next to an omega girl and had only just sat down when she abruptly rose

from her seat with her books in her hands.

“What is it, Sally?” the new teacher, Livia Jet, asked the girl, watching her squirm in discomfort.

“Can I please sit somewhere else?” the girl asked in a timid voice. Sally was always the silent one.

She would barely pick fights or argue with anyone, so seeing her react like that to me trying to sit

next to her shocked me.

I noticed Natalya lifting her head to acknowledge what was happening before she tilted it and

looked down again. She was doodling in her notebook.

No! My suspicions were not wrong. She must have been behind this whole mess. Something very

scary was going on. The way everyone was so disgusted with me worried me.

“Okay! You can go sit over there,” the teacher said, looking a bit clueless. I assumed it was only the

students who were acting up then.

I was going crazy. Throughout the school periods, I could not focus on what the teachers were

teaching us. My mind was blocked by the glares everyone around me was giving me. When the last

period came,

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where we were supposed to go for the combat classes, I decided I would speak to April and ask her

what was going on.

If Natalya had done something wrong, April would definitely know. Running after her, I tried to catch

up, but she had already disappeared into the changing room with her friends. I stayed outside,

rubbing my palms anxiously and wondering if I wanted to go in among such a crowd.

Since I was half sure something was wrong, I couldn’t confront the answers directly. But after some

time passed. I was left with no option but to enter the changing room and face everyone. Thankfully,

they had all changed and were ready to leave.

But not before, one by one, they bumped into me, pushing me back and back.

“Hey!” I complained, rubbing my shoulder.

Natalya was quick enough to sneak out with the other girls, but I did get a chance to block April’s

path to have a word with her.

“April! Oh my Goddess, I have been looking to speak to you since. morning.” I said, showing

enthusiasm and curiosity.

“Hmm? About what?” The tone she used was not the one she had been using with me ever since

she found out I am a stepsister of the alpha king brothers.

“Why are you talking like that with me?” I inquired carefully, examining her expressions as she

rolled her eyes at me.

“I am not doing anything. Of course, you are used to everyone talking sweetly and romantically with

you. So you are feeling odd about my tone,” the blunt look she gave me and the tone she used

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obvious that it was a taunt. She was mocking me.

“April! If something has been said, I would like for you to come to me to clear it up first,” my eyes

were slowly getting watery from the fear in my body. It felt like I was lying to everyone with so much

confidence. that even I teared up thinking if Natalya said something, she would be lying. Would she

be lying, though?

“Why? Is there anything that I need to know?” she folded her arms over her chest and tapped her

foot on the ground.

“Anyway, I have to go. I am not like you who gets to avoid any training or mess because she has

everyone wrapped around her tiny dirty finger,” she made it clear when she hissed at me that she

was no longer on my side.

But I wanted to know what was said about me. What did Natalya do?

But April walked away, leaving me with unanswered questions.

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