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Chapter 8

Scarlett Wolff

It was another day to go to that boring school. A place that used to be fun for me, but what I found fun now was spending time with Lucien though he wasn't giving me the audience.

I was just getting ready to leave for school when my phone started to ring, and I picked on the first ring when I saw that it was Alexa. She was still calling me despite the way I treated her yesterday. I needed to apologise to her later for being mean.

“Hey, sweetheart. I'm coming over to your house. You don't have to drive to school, I will pick you up in my car,”

I still haven't told her that I moved out of the house to stay with my dad's friend.

“Let's meet in school, Alex. You don't have to pick me up,” I ended the call without giving her a chance to bombard me with questions, knowing that it was the next thing she would do.

My chest tightened, and I bit my lip as the thought of Lucien crowded my mind. The way my heart stung when he rejected my food yesterday, the way he didn't