Page 258 of The Blairville Legacies

“What's so funny about that?”

Vivienna gave her an evil glare.

“Nothing...” Bay muttered, still grinning.

“I should hope so. I want someone to get rid of this or there will be consequences for you!” With those words, she stumbled up the stairs in a hurry.

I looked at the dog and clicked my tongue until he peeked out from under the couch and looked at me. I waved a slice of ham in the air, which the dog didn't need to see twice. He forced his little body out of the crack and came prancing happily to me. I threw him the slice of ham, which he immediately pounced on and licked up.

“Gooddog,” I sighed, and finally continued eating.

The package was almost empty and my stomach was still growling.

That's what you get for sharing your food with a pet, Emely.

Bayla eyed me with suspicion, then grinned again.

“You seem to get on well with Julie's dog.”

What did she want from me now?

I already found it annoying enough that she was in my head, now she wanted to pretend that nothing had happened.

Couldn't the Quatura just leave me all alone to study?

“I hate dogs,” I said, jumping off the counter and pushing the dog aside.

“Yeah,right,” Bayla replied, still grinning.

Her comment was enough to make me throw all my principles overboard.

I approached her until there was only a hand's width of air between our faces.

Hopefully I didn't smell too much of ham.

“Listen. Whatever Julian sees in you, you'reone of them,and that means I wantnothingto do with you. Stay away from me, or you'll regret it.”

Bayla swallowed, but she didn't seem afraid.

“I'm notone of them.”

“Yeah,right, and I was just bewitched out ofnowhere.”

“Bewitched?”

She looked at me, confused.

“Listen, you might be able to pull Julian's leg, but you can't pull mine. And another thing, I'm only going to tell you once:Get out of my head!”

I hoped she had understood me, because next time Iwouldn'ttalk.

I turned to leave.

“Why are you always like this? I didn't do anything to you,” Bayla said, and I paused to turn around one last time.

She looked at me helplessly, almost as if she really didn't know anything. But there was something else.Blood.

“Your nose...” I gasped, my eyes widening.

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