CHAPTER 148: A SUDDEN FRIEND (2)

"Did I say something wrong?" Inez asked, wondering what had happened for the woman to scowl in such a hideous manner suddenly.

"It has nothing to do with you," replied Jules with a snort. "It’s my dad. After he found out that I had done something wrong, he asked me to come here and apologise to Alpha Sokolov." This was the only thing that made Jules annoyed to bits.

It was Killian who had treated her like she was nothing. He should be the one who should be apologising to her for treating her as if she were beneath him, and yet the one who was sent here to apologise was her! It was really too much.

When she thought about how she had to apologise to Killian, who had embarrassed and insulted her, Jules couldn’t help but feel aggrieved as if someone had shoved a sour lemon into her mouth.

"You are here to apologise?" Inez, if possible, felt even more guilty when she heard the words of the woman. She could, of course, understand Jules’ anger better than anyone. "I am really sorry—"

"It’s not your fault," Jules interrupted her. "My father would have sent me here anyway; he makes it sound like I am never going to get married." She might be a bit arrogant, but she was also a beautiful woman who was rich and had a really good family.

Was there a need for her father to treat her like she was hard to love?

Inez stayed quiet. She hardly knew anything about Jules, and it wouldn’t be right for her to comment on such private affairs.

"Jules? Jules!? Where are you? Did I not say that you are not allowed to hide or run?" Serafina, who rushed up the moor, looked at her cousin with a hint of reproach. When she saw someone standing next to Jules, her pace faltered, and she looked at Inez with a hint of confusion and wariness in her eyes.

She hesitantly asked, "Who is this Jules?"

"She is Lyla. One of my friends, sister."

Friends? Inez’s expression changed subtly. She glanced at the woman who had introduced her as her friend. The two of them had only met two times, and that too only for a few seconds. How come they suddenly leapt over the get-to-know phase and suddenly became friends?

"Your friend?" Serafina questioned as she turned to look at Inez. She raised her gaze and then dropped it down before saying, "I didn’t know that you already started mingling with the members of this pack. Well, I am glad that you are willing to get to know the pack members after all. If things go alright, you will become the Luna of this pack. However, I would hope that you would think twice before getting to know some people. No offence to you, Miss Lyla," she added while looking at Inez, who simply smiled.

"None taken," she offered. Inez wanted to leave the two women and go on her merry way to the lodge where she wanted to take some rest, but before she could, she heard Jules say,

"I took your advice and made a friend. Weren’t you the one who kept telling me that I need to befriend a few people? I did try it, but all of them are nothing but rude to me. It will be better if I don’t get deep into it."

"And you think that they are the ones who are in the wrong?" Serafina commented with a hint of annoyance and exasperation in her eyes. She wanted to say something more, but she held herself back because she didn’t want to condemn her cousin in front of a stranger. She turned to look at Inez and asked, "Are you a lycan, Miss Lyla? I am sorry for asking, but I cannot smell the scent of a lycan from you."

Inez was glad that she couldn’t because if she could, then the woman would have definitely lunged at her. For they would have smelled Killian’s scent off her.

"I am a latent," replied Inez, and she noticed that within seconds, Serafina’s eyes were filled with contempt.

"I see; I didn’t know that there were latents in this pack," remarked Serafina. Jules glanced at her sister as she noticed the slight mocking tone.

However, Serafina pretended as if she didn’t notice anything. She glanced at Inez and became even more dissatisfied, for Inez was everything that she hated in a woman. She looked rebellious and frivolous, and that impression only heightened when she read the phrase on Inez’s t-shirt.

’Get off my face. I am too busy to waste my breath on you.’

Serafina hoped that her uncle would never find out about this because if he were to find out that she allowed Jules to get close to someone like Inez, he would be really cross with her.

"Do you live in the pack or are you asked to stay outside around the boundaries?" Serafina asked.

"You are being rude, Fina!" exclaimed Jules. She turned and apologised to Inez, "I am really sorry about this, Lyla. My cousin is not usually like this."

"It’s alright," Inez replied in an offhand voice. She then turned to look at Serafina before saying to her, "No. Our alpha doesn’t discriminate between shifters because of their blood and shifting abilities, so we all live in the territory like a big family."

"I see..." Serafina’s eyes turned cold, as she had not expected a latent to retort to her.

Inez knew that the woman didn’t like her, and she had no intention of making Serafina like her. She hummed and said, "If that is all, then I will take my leave."

"Did you really have to be that rude?" Jules questioned her sister as she rushed after Inez, who was walking away.

"Jules! Jules? You better come back!"

Jules didn’t look at her sister and chased after Inez, for she truly didn’t wish to lose this friend of hers.