Page 206 of The Blairville Legacies

“Now I want to know who this Erik is, too” it came from the door.

Bayla Adams looked first at Larissa, then at me, a thousand question marks above her head, before looking back at Larissa with a smirk.

Thank you, Larissa. Really. Thank you.

“Julie has a secret boyfriend.” She looked at me as if I had some information for her that everyone was dying to know. “Does Grace actually know about this?”

“No, and I want to keep it that way,” I said, giving Larissa a serious look.

“Ooh, seems to be somethingverysecret indeed.”

She winked at me.

“Not anymore,” I sighed.

I looked at Bay, who raised her hands with a grin. “Sorry.”

“Wow, nowthat’swhat I call deep talk.”

I looked at Larissa, who was grinning and holding my laptop in her arms.

Startled, I snatched it out of her hands and immediately felt my cheeks heat up.

“Does he go to university here, too?”

“Larissa, stop interfering in other people’s lives. There are things you can’t always stick your nose into.”

Bayla made it sound as if Larissa’s behavior was nothing out of the ordinary.

Just the way she’d talked to the DeLoughreys earlier had scared me. And I was worried that this guy was serious and might even turn up here and cause a bloodbath.

Even if the Ruisangors were playing by the rules of the treaty here in Blairville, they couldn’t be trusted. They were gradually buying up parts of our territory, and that was slowly making them a bittoopowerful.

“Larissa, leave her alone now!”

“It’s all right, Bayla.”

“No,” Bay looked at me. “You have to tell her if something’s bugging you. Larissa likes to overstep boundaries.” Bayla paced around the room. “And you can call me Bay.”

Exhausted, she dropped onto her bed. Somehow, she looked paler than usual.

“Don’t talk like I’m not here.” Larissa looked at me, rolling her eyes. “I just want to help Julie.”

“I’m fine on my own,” I refused with gratitude, but something told me I wasn’t going to get out of this one just like that.

“So, how is it that you’re never seen making out on campus?”

“Larissa!” Bay looked at her best friend with widened eyes.

“He’s not my boyfriend!” I said with a little nervousness. “He’s a friend.”

Larissa raised one of her eyebrows as if she didn’t believe me. “Why don’t people see you two on campus anyway?”

I didn’t know what to say. Actually, I was pretty much sitting on the serving platter.

“Larissa...” Bay reminded her again, but just shook her head in resignation when Larissa seemed to ignore her and continued talking instead.

“Simply because you two have never met.”

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