Chapter 18
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Being weak is a curse, nobody wants to associate with the likes of me. Especially in a pack where power, wealth, and beauty are all that matters.
Grabbing my index finger like it's a piece of shit, Lilian twists it earning a yelp from me. My eyes couldn't help traveling towards Aiden but he still had that attitude of indifference to my pain.
'How dare you?" Lilian said in a sing-song, still smiling.
'Please." I pleaded, almost getting on my knees from the pain.
'Do you have evidence?" She asked.
I shook my head, and in the process, I saw the remnant of her crew enjoying the spectacle.
'That's enough." Aiden finally said striding over to us.
By this time, I had tears streaming down my face and a light liquid running down my nose. The muffled giggles and whispers around me blackened my heart.
If Lilian heard Aiden, she didn't act like it because she went ahead to push me to the floor and I fell with my legs open. The giggles morph into laughter, and heat spreads to my face.
'He said it's enough, didn't you hear him?" Someone else asks.
Looking up through my tear-filled eyes, I saw Kelvin frowning at her.
'Babe…"
'Don't Babe me, wait in my room after now." He says, sparing her no more look.
'Are you okay?" I nod to Kelvin's question.
Honestly, I didn't want to nod to his question but I knew not doing that will incur another unwanted enemy.
He was among the group of persons who secretly laughed at me, but when he offered to lift me, I accepted his hand only for him to let go, and I fell back to the floor, my butt hitting harder than ever.
'Oops! Sorry, my hand got a little slippery." He says, not meaning it, his eye shining with hidden evil.
I heard Lilian laugh out loud this time, and I wondered what was wrong with them. How does someone else's misery give them this joy? What is wrong with being different?
I didn't bother looking at Aiden. I also made sure to get myself up before any other person would offer me a hand.
'But I was about to help you up again. So bad." Kelvin repeats.
I miss Liam. The thought of this brings more tears to my eyes, it became a struggle not to cry out loud.
'Apologize to her." I hear Aiden say.
My stomach churns and I feel like throwing up. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I still peer at the floor, hoping his words were for Lilian.
'Have you gone deaf?" Lilian asks. I feel the displeasure in her voice.
'Do not make me repeat myself, Moon, apologize to her." The authority in Aiden's voice disgusts me more than the rest.
I feel like yelling, ‘You two-faced idiot!' to his face, whacking him severally across his stupid face before marching off, but I can only vent that way in my head.
'Sorry," I said.
The word ‘sorry' had never been hard for me to say, it was something I said regularly in the past that it became part of me. I would find myself saying it without thinking about it, but now, knowing how unjustly treated I am, saying the word sincerely became hard.
'What was that?" Diana, who had been on the sidelines all alone, asks, a cat walking into the picture.
'If you want to apologize, do it well," Aiden ordered again.
'Can you just shut up already!?" I say, but this is in my imagination.
I – don't – want – to – apologize. Can't he see he is the one making me do this?
'I am sorry," I say, my finger scratching off flesh from my other hand.
'Look her in the eye or consider doing something more intense to pay for your action," Diana says.
'Fuck off!" is at the tip of my tongue but I can't get it out as I glare at her.
'What? Cat got your tongue? Or do you want to beat me to a pulp?" She taunts, bringing her ugly face closer.
I want to say 'yes", no, I want to just lunge at her and beat her to a mess, but I think about the heavy price to pay, even right now, because of my delay.
'The faster you get it done with, the better for you." Aiden chipped in and I almost gave a short laugh.
Looking at Lilian with the most sincere look I would have ever conjured, given the amount of hate pooling at the pit of my belly, I allow my tears to flow.
'I am so sorry, Lilian; I will try my best not to run into you again," I say it and mean it.
Who wants to freely enter into trouble, when there is another comfortable escape?
She scoffs and says, 'I thought you were going to say you would do your best to make it up to me."
'That's enough now Lilian," Aiden says with a sigh.
'Moon?" He calls but I don't answer.
'Why won't you answer him? Has doing the deed made him your equal now?" The relentless Diana asks gaining the attention of those who were beginning to lose interest in whatever was going on.
I begin to hear murmurs and my skin lines with goosebumps.
'Diana!" Comes Aiden's warning tone.
'Duh!" She replies before walking off.
Seeing this as an opportunity, I pick up what remains of me and walk out of the malicious eyes of others into the food store to complete the rest of my tasks for the day.
'Moon?" My shaking fingers stopped for a bit as I listened to his footsteps.
What else does he want?
'Are you in there? Answer me, Moon." Aiden calls out.
'If you are in there, just respond. I need to talk to you."
Idiot. Stupid, stupid, stupid werewolf. Who does he think he is, playing with my emotions this way?
