The Four Beta Brothers – Chapter 61
JUNIPER
Luna Miller clicked her tongue and looked away. “Moira, I am not going to argue with the validity of your choices right now. Just go get changed before we go get lunch.”
“I like what I’m wearing,” Moira said, straightening her shoulders just a little.
ou have to argue against everything?”
heading to her room again, but she paused when her mother spoke again.
ing. Won’t you join
t her in, even though I didn’t owe her anything.
se.
universe.
ctually have lunch plans already. I’ll have to give a rain check.”
now, do you?” Luna Miller chirped.
o Moira’s parents.
who is it?”
his wife’s shoulder.
g.”
talked to me? The way they belittled Moira?
ister in the way she looked at me, as if she knew she had power over me.
ell,” I said, unsure of why I had listened to her. Who I spent my time with was none
” Alpha Miller repeated. His eyes were as wide as his wife’s, hungry with the firs
by holding this information hostage.
und, but it didn’t work in her favor.
said.
to introduce you to them. Having the Burrell family as friends would be goo
just wanted to get her claws into their power.
’s help to secure my power,” Moira s
eep making,” Alpha Miller said.
hange now. Juniper, why do you invite Axel to join us?” Luna Miller said, her vo
p it.
ng out of me, so there was no one to disappoint.
n’t she be better behaved like you?” She shook her head and then added, “So will you ask Axel to join us for lunch? I would love to learn more about the boy who caught your heart.”
ily, I thought. She had no interest in my love life other than what it would gain her.
question. I would never ask Axel to join the Millers for lunch, even if he wasn’t recovering from a gunshot.
ticed me.
n here?”
e front door, telling her parents everything she had done to me, and never spoken to her family again.
ean augh at me?”
just witnessed.”
o get revenge later?”
s. I didn’t see the ruthless cheerleader, determined to destroy me. I didn’t see the girl who did whatever she could to elevate her status in this school so everyone would look up to her.
that. She was just a girl who could never live up to her parents’ expectations, no matter how hard she tried. She grew up being compared to the little beta orphan who had no destiny yet managed to outshine her in her parents’ eyes every step of the
d I care about someone so pathetically alone?”
dy accepted that there was a chance she was never my friend. I already mourned our friendship.
time I wished I could be more like you. I wanted your life, but knowing I could never have it, I settled for being your friend. I even loved you like a sister. Maybe that’s why I have no intention of telling your parents everything you’ve done to me.”
’t take revenge on her.
ou. You tried destroying my life, but it’s hard to be an
ed this situation against you.”
y. Those girls hadn’t existed in a long time.
r one,” Moira commented. It was as if she was trying to get a rise
you don’t stop trying to ruin my life, I will sink to your level.”
. “I’m impressed. I didn’t think you had it in you to black
I should’ve realized it.”
problems of your own,” she said.
sh you would’ve talked to me about it
nd empty, as if she knew she could never live up to the standards her parents had laid out for her.
red about me as a friend, it was still hard to believe. Even if she hadn’t seen me that way in a lo
the chance to rekindle the friendship was long gone.
t. She no longer seemed as angry as she was when I first came in. “You’re not actually planning on accepting the lunch invitation, are you?”
I don’t have any interest in spending more time with your parents
.”
ine who you are. Just because you’re not who they wanted, it doesn’t make you less important, so don’t sink to their levels.”
nce, and I left before she had a chance to say something in