My Alphas' Dark Desires-Chapter 235: I Want Valerie Taken Down

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Chapter 235

~Lucy’s POV~

I staggered back. "You... you didn’t see that."

Her gaze flickered to the board with my darts all over it. "But I did," she said smoothly and wickedly. "No need to fret. You’re just as deranged as I am."

Her smile widened into a feral, predatory, maniacal one.

"W-who are you?" I breathed.

She stepped into the light, her silver earrings catching the sun.

"I’m Avery," she said, lips twisting. "And I want Valerie taken down too."

I did not bother with what she said but processed everything that had happened and how I went wrong.

Avery caught the dart mid-air with two fingers—calm, precise, almost bored—and my blood froze.

I hadn’t heard her come in. I hadn’t even sensed her. It was like she’d materialised from the shadows themselves, dark and elegant and completely out of place in the dust-stained classroom.

Her eyes were sharp and calculating, but the smirk playing at her lips made my stomach twist.

"I don’t even need to ask why," she said, stepping closer with the dart still in hand. "I know that look. That quiet hatred... the kind you bury until it rots you from the inside."

I opened my mouth, but no sound came out. My throat was dry. Tight.

Avery’s smirk deepened as if my silence pleased her. "Valerie stole Dristan from me. That’s why I hate her. She got her claws in him before I could show him what real loyalty looks like."

I blinked, confused for a second.

Dristan?

But before I could ask, she leaned in slightly, her voice dropping. "And now it seems she’s stolen someone from you, too."

I stiffened. A chill crept up my arms.

"It’s not like that," I said quickly. "I just don’t like how she treats Kieran. That’s all."

But even I didn’t believe it.

Avery gave a low, amused chuckle. "Oh, sweet girl. You expect me to buy that?" She stepped even closer, circling me like a predator playing with its prey. "You’re in love with him, aren’t you?"

I flinched. My mouth opened and closed like I’d forgotten how to speak.

Then she hit me with it—sharp and brutal.

"Does he fuck you?"

My heart jolted. "W-what?"

She raised a brow, smiling like a snake in silk. "Don’t play coy. He fucks you when he wants. You play the good little maid—get on your knees, make yourself useful."

"No..."

"But even then," she whispered, "he’s still thinking about her, isn’t he?"

"Stop it!"

"All those nights," she continued in a soft voice, cruel, relentless. "You crawl into his bed thinking this time he’ll see you. You laugh when he does. Cry when he ignores you. You helped him chase Valerie. Helped him. Even after he humiliated you, didn’t he slap you once?" freewёbnoνel.com

I felt the blood drain from my face.

I raised my hands, pressing them over my ears. "Shut up—just shut up—"

But her words tore through anyway.

"You’re his fallback, Lucy. His comfort toy. His Plan B. Hell no, plan C. The one who’s always there. And what do you get for it?"

My chest ached. Each word dug deeper, tearing through memories I had buried and smiled over.

Kieran brushed past me like I didn’t exist.

Kieran was using me—fast, rough, silent.

Kieran pulled away like he was ashamed.

My hands fell from my ears. I couldn’t stop the shaking in my limbs.

Tears welled and blurred my vision. "STOP IT!" I screamed. My voice cracked and echoed off the empty walls. "It was never about me! He never chose me! I gave him everything—and it was always her! Always Valerie!"

I collapsed against the desk, sobbing, chest heaving, the words finally out of me like poison spilled from a rotting wound.

Avery was quiet for a moment. Then she nodded slowly, satisfaction gleaming in her eyes.

"There it is."

She stepped closer and gently patted my shoulder comfortingly, and cold at the same time.

"They say the enemy of my enemy is my friend... and right now, Lucy, you are my friend. And Valerie Nightshade? She’s our enemy."

I looked up at her, still trembling. Then, slowly, I nodded.

She extended her hand, and though every part of me hesitated, I reached out and shook it.

Avery’s grin turned wicked. "So. What do you say... we cause a little disruption?"

I swallowed, wiping my cheeks with my sleeve. "What do you mean?"

She tilted her head, lips curling with mischief.

"We’re going to have," she said, almost in a sing-song, "a lab accident."

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~Valerie’s POV~

The corridors buzzed with chatter as Isla and I made our way toward the science wing. The morning had already been long, and the emotional weight from last night still clung to me like a second skin.

We were scheduled for a Physics practical first, followed by Chemistry immediately after. No breaks and time to breathe.

Classic PSA torture.

I glanced at Isla as we reached the lab doors. She looked tired. Not physically, but... emotionally distant.

Her posture was perfect, her stride confident, but something about the way her fingers clutched her notebook made me tilt my head.

We entered the lab and took our usual spot toward the back of the room, where we could talk without the instructors hovering.

Isla exhaled softly and began flipping through her notes, and I followed suit, setting mine on the counter and preparing the apparatuses.

Professor Neil walked in shortly after, tall, stern, and as ever, wearing a stiff collared shirt that looked like it came straight out of a military handbook.

He barked out the basic instructions, reminding us that the practical was to be completed in pairs, and then we were given twenty minutes to run our circuit calibration.

Isla and I worked in silence until the bell was rung, and we were getting things ready, and while I focused on adjusting the resistance coils, something... odd caught my eye.

As Professor Neil turned to leave, having finished his rounds, his gaze slid to Isla and stayed there for just a second too long.

I froze when I saw it. That stare... I knew that kind of look.

It was the same one Dristan gave me before he confessed his love for me. The same one Kai tried so hard to hide behind cool expressions but failed whenever he thought I wasn’t looking.

Interest, possession, and yearning.

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