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CHAPTER 161
~Solstice's POV~
Students were already rising from their seats, bags slung over their shoulders, half-hearted chatter filling the lecture hall like smoke after a fire.
I didn't move right away.
I stayed seated at the back, fingers clenched around my notebook as I had my eyes fixed on the floor with one single thought and naem racing through my mind.
Gods.
Valerie.
The scene from earlier—Dristan kissing her like she belonged to him, Kai pulling her in right after—kept replaying in my head. The way she froze. The way people stared. The things they whispered.
I wanted to go in and talk back to them but she would complain it was out of character for the persona I was keeping in school.
But still, I hated that they called her names and I had already thought of a good revenge plan to carry out on those losers.
BrielleTitaniaEstelleWannabe Mavis and lots more.