Page 260 of A University of Betrayal

When the door opened, I exhaled with relief.

Larissa looked around and pulled me in.

Comedy Funny Music

Gold-Tiger

“What are you doing here?” I asked her, looking around the luxurious living area. No one else seemed to be around. “Pleasetell me you’re alone.”

Larissa sighed while packing her camera into her bag. “Yeah, you’re lucky. Vivienna and her friends are still downtown.” She looked rushed as she opened one of her blood reserves, which relieved me even more. She seemed to know what to do, but did she have enough blood reserves left? “Bayla and Julie aren’t here right now, and Emely is on a date. Sono,you’re not going to be hexed by some Quatura or chased by a Senseque.”

“Emely Copeland? Adate?”

I laughed, bitterly, wondering for the first time that Emely and Larissa lived under the same roof. And who she was on adatewith. With the strangely aggressive Russian?Hardly,after the bullshit he had said to her during our little game. EvenIwouldn’t say something like that to her, reducing her to her gender...

Larissa looked at me in surprise.

“Yeah, why?”

I laughed and tried my hardest to make it sound amused and not bitter. “That someone wouldvoluntarilygo on a date with that girl...”

“I don’t know… She hates everyone here except her brother’s friends and Bayla’s neighbor.”

“Who’s Bayla’s neighbor?”

Somehow, I wanted to know who she was making an exception for, who this girldidn’thate.

“Since when are you so interested in my friends?” Larissa said, looking at me critically.

“Friends?”

How could she suddenly call so many people herfriends? And anyway...

“Forget it. I’m in a hurry.”

I looked up in alarm. “Where are you going?”

I stood in front of her as she was about to scurry to the door, and she paused in front of me. Her hair moved from the inhuman speed she wasn’t supposed to use here.

“I’m sorry to have to tell you this, but this is none of your business, so let me through.”

Again, she tried to pass me, but I consistently blocked my sister’s path.

“AndI’m sorry to have to tell youthis,but I’m afraid I can’t let you go if I don’t know where you’re going.”

She raised both eyebrows.

“What are you doing?”

“You’re a Ruinouveau, which is why I can’t just let you do whatever you want.” I sensed her tension. “Don’t take offense, but I was sent to babysit you.”

“Did Bastien send you? Please tell him he’s super good at hide-and-seek. I’ve been trying to find himfor days.”

If I told her who sent me, she would rebel all the more.

“Bastien is here on campus,” I said instead, wondering what she wanted from him.

“Oh,great.”

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