CHAPTER 146: SNAKE AND FRIENDS (2)

Selene hesitated. She looked at the pastel yellow dress and nodded, "Well, you can leave it. I will try it when I have the time."

"That’s like a good girl," said Nyx as her lips curled up into a brilliant smile. She then took out a pair of heels that she had brought with the dresses and placed them in front of Selene before saying to her, "And these are matching heels that will go well with the dress. Don’t you think so?"

Inez looked at the scene in front of her and frowned lightly. Though she didn’t say anything, she did feel that there was something off about this entire situation.

"I have enough heels to wear, Nyx," said Selene as she tried to refuse the heels that Nyx had brought for her. She didn’t even wear heels because her legs were incapable of walking.

Nyx, however, frowned and said to her, "Don’t refuse, Sel. I know that you don’t care about how you look and what kind of clothes you wear. But you should look your best in front of others. Don’t let them have the chance to say anything to you."

"Alright," With Nyx insisting so much, Selene could no longer refuse. She looked at the shoes that Nyx had once worn and pursed her lips. She had never told Nyx about the entire incident. The reason she was bullied the last time at the party was not because she could no longer walk on her own or that she was now tied to a wheelchair for eternity.

But because she wore clothes and shoes that were too similar to the ones that Nyx usually wore. Those women made fun of her because she was trying to copy Nyx in their eyes, so they made fun of her.

However, when she raised her head and looked at Nyx, Selene couldn’t bring herself to refuse the woman. After all, she was only trying to look after her as her only friend.

Nyx liked the feeling of being trusted and depended on, even though she was not trustworthy. Her lips curled up in a sweet smile when she saw Selene agreeing to her requests, and even though she noticed the hesitation in the eyes of the latter, she ignored it, for she knew why Selene was hesitating to take and wear the clothes that she had given to her.

She offered her politest smile to the two women before saying, "I will be taking my leave then; after all, I need to prepare for the birthday party."

Inez waited for the woman to leave. Once she was sure that Nyx was gone, she turned to look at Selene and said to her, "Are you really going to wear these clothes?" She wondered if Killian even knew about these things. If he did, then why did he not stop it? She wanted to believe that Nyx had her heart in the right place, but she could not.

"I don’t know," Selene replied while looking at the dresses and the shoes that Nyx had left in her place. She wanted to say that she was going to wear them, but as the words touched her lips, she swallowed them back.

Selene wanted to believe that Nyx was only looking after her and had no other intentions, but did that woman truly have no idea that these actions of hers were causing her trouble?

Inez pursed her lips. She couldn’t look at Selene, whose face was filled with troubled lines and said to her, "Why don’t we—"

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When Inez left the lodge that belonged to Selene, Nyx, who was accompanied by one of the female shifters, heard her say, "If Killian finds out that you have been handing your used and old clothes to Selene, he will not be pleased."

Nyx rolled her eyes when she heard the words of the female shifter. She said to her, "Do you think I don’t know this? Why do you think I do it so secretly? Make sure that no one breathes a word about it and keep the rumours going."

Nyx had her own reasons for handing those clothes to Selene. When she thought about how her little plans would soon come to fruition, her lips curled up in a sweet smile.

"Of course, I will not dare to do it," said the female shifter. She was not a fool. If Killian found out that his sister had been subtly suppressed in such a manner, he would certainly lose his temper with them.

Right now, the two of them were sitting on the balcony of Nyx’s lodge, where her family lived. Nyx was overlooking the path down which Inez was walking and humming a soft tune. She could see that Inez seemed troubled; however, Nyx knew that even if the woman had tried her best to help Selene, the woman would still listen to her.

"Such a pitiful thing, looking out for everyone," she clicked her tongue while looking at Inez. She still could not believe that Killian had chosen this woman over her and everyone else. Why would he go after a woman like Inez? Was it because of the taste of novelty or something else?

Nyx couldn’t understand Killian’s actions, but that didn’t change the fact that she was jealous. She had been with him longer, and yet the man had never looked in her direction, even when she had made herself like Lyra. She hoped that the man would look at her like he had once looked at her sister, but no—Killian had never turned his head her way.

A burst of rage exploded in her heart, and she turned around on her feet before saying to the submissive shifter, "Go and bring me something to eat. And call the seamstress; there are some changes that I want to make to my gown. I need to stand out more than everyone else in the pack."

Since she had gone through such lengths to make Selene her backdrop, she couldn’t let it go to waste.

"Yes, Miss Nyx," replied the submissive shifter as she took her leave.