And Then There Were Four

"Hey, I was just coming to find you guys. I actually ordered us some food down the street. Why don't we go ahead and take a walk and go pick it up, and then we can get to class, and we won't be late," she said without a breath, causing my suspicion level to rise even higher. "What the hell is going on with you two? Why are you acting like this?" Both Sansa and Trixie looked at each other, giving each other a questionable gaze that was undeniably a sense of warning, if you will, between the two of them.

I wasn't sure what was going on, but I sure as hell was going to find out. As I pushed past Trixie, opening the door to the cafeteria, I got a front-row view of exactly what had them so out of sorts.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

Lucas sat at the table with Zia and a couple of the other populars-if you want to call them that-who showed off around school. His arm was draped over Zia's shoulders as she leaned in close to him with only inches between his lips and hers.

Upset didn't even begin to explain the way I felt the moment I laid my eyes on him and Zia. Only two days ago, he had literally tried to kill me, and yet he was sitting here amongst all of these people, acting as if everything was fine and nothing was wrong with him. Shock and anger consumed me as I tried to think of what to do or what to say. Anyone else would have run out of there crying in tears that their mate was lounging on another woman, but my and Lucas's situation was far different than the typical mated couple. Hell, we weren't even actually mated it yet. Of course, we had sex, but thank God I didn't let him bite me. I could only imagine what the mate bond would feel like right now. "Are you fucking kidding me?"

My muttered response did not go

unnoticed. Trixie and Sansa had heard me, and as his eyes met mine,

I could assume he heard me too.

Trying my hardest to think clearly on this matter, I held my head high, averted my gaze from his look of disgust, and marched down the center of the cafeteria, straight towards the buffet of food that lay on the far back wall.

The last thing I was going to do was allow him to fuck up the rest of my day. I had already spent the last two days completely worried about him, on whether or not he was alive, if his mind was too far gone and how t was going to be able to help him. And yet he sat here with those people with his arm around another woman, acting as if everything that had happened between him and I had never existed.

"Cassie, you don't have to be here going through this," Trixie's soft, gentle words were a push of encouragement and understanding. But at the same time, I wasn't going to allow him to get what he wanted. I wouldn't allow him the satisfaction of seeing me break.

Turning my gaze towards Trixie with

a croissant in hand, I smiled at her. "I already wasted enough time trying to figure this man out. I'm not going to continue doing it. If he wants to figure his stuff out with her, then let him. I have better things to do with

my time."

I didn't really. Honestly, it was killing me inside, knowing he would prefer the company of another woman than allowing me to talk to him so I could try to figure out what the fuck was wrong.

Turning back to the food in front of me, I made a small plate and grabbed a drink and as I turned, hoping to make my way out of the cafeteria without causing any kind of disturbance, I found Lucas standing before me with a sinister grin upon his beautiful plump lips. "The fuck are you doing in here?"

Staring at him for a moment, I held up my plate of food, raising one brow as I shrugged my shoulders. "What the fuck does it look like I'm doing?"