Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates novel Chapter 364

Chapter 364: 364-She Thinks I Am Evil

Helanie:

We didn’t go anywhere for lunch after that. I asked Penn to take us back to the academy, and he did. Once we arrived, I rushed straight to my floor and into my room. Lamar was already there with bags of food, and so was Gavin. He was leaning against the wall, watching me as I walked in.

"Let’s eat something," Lamar insisted, giving me a look that said I should sit down and not overthink things. But how could I not?

Instead of things getting resolved in my life, they were only getting messier and messier. And now Lucy! I couldn’t understand what her deal was. Every day, one of these people made me appreciate keeping my secrets to myself even more.

"Please?" Gavin insisted, squinting his eyes a little. I nodded and sat on Lamar’s bed while they started unwrapping the food.

"I hope Lucy doesn’t freak out when she sees me here," Gavin muttered, taking a big bite of his burger.

"I told you, dude—don’t worry about it. She lost her credibility when she not only showed up with Sydney but stood there and let her question Helanie. It was as if she brought Sydney along just to say the things Lucy couldn’t say herself," Lamar said with his mouth full, immediately biting his tongue when he spat his food everywhere.

"I think she’s in a really vulnerable state right now. She needs proper guidance. We shouldn’t hold it against her," Gavin sounded genuinely concerned. I guess he really wanted to fix what had gone wrong.

I, however, didn’t add anything to the conversation. I wanted to talk to Lucy alone and then decide what needed to be done.

"Just because you messed up once doesn’t mean you need to bow down all the time. Not to mention, I agree with us being harsh on you, but not on her when she was cheating on you. She just got lucky that she ended up being the victim. Otherwise, she would’ve been in your place right now," Lamar said, brutally honest as always.

He wouldn’t shut up until he had said whatever was on his mind. And I didn’t stop him either.

After we finished our meals, the door finally opened, and Lucy walked in. Before she arrived, we had been wondering how we would react or how she would react to seeing us here.

But the moment she stepped in, we realized that wasn’t going to happen.

She was completely drunk.

Gavin quickly stood up, and so did I, ready to support her. But she rushed past us, pushing us out of her way to get to Lamar.

"Hey!" She flopped onto his bed, and Lamar jumped like a startled cat. He quickly got up and turned away from her.

"Come on, what’s the matter? You don’t want to fuck me now? You did before," Lucy smirked, licking her bottom lip and making all of us uncomfortable.

"No! Let me talk. Stop controlling me all the time. As if you’re better than me," she rolled her eyes.

"I’ve never said I’m better than you," I tried to explain, but she wagged her finger and moved it side to side in front of my face.

"You always steal the attention. The way everyone listens to you and waits for Queen Helanie to make a decision—it drives me crazy. You’re the reason Gavin hurt me. If you had worked hard and found out the truth, I could have been spared all this pain. But instead, you let it happen because you wanted a sad, depressed Lucy by your side—someone you could pity," her harsh tone cut deep, making me feel instantly attacked.

Tears started to well up in my eyes, but I held them back.

"No, that’s not true, Lucy. I care about you. I don’t know why you think I’d do that to you," I began, but she walked away, threw herself onto her bed, and rolled under the covers.

"Go cry in front of the boys. Your miserable act usually works on them," I couldn’t believe I had hurt her so much that she was saying all this to me.

The Lucy I knew before her rejection would never have said such things. But this new Lucy, broken by rejection, seemed to think all her friends had betrayed her.

"Now go! You have no idea how I felt when I was in a coma. I wish the entity had taken my body instead—at least then, I’d have been powerful. But of course, even a monster wouldn’t want me. So you better watch out—who knows, maybe the entity will choose you like everyone else does," she kept muttering until she finally passed out.