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CHAPTER 294
~Valerie's POV~
I groaned a little loudly. "I swear, if either of you opens your mouth, I will hex your lockers shut with your heads inside."
Emerald stiffened beside me, clearly taking my threat half-seriously, but Isla, on the other hand, just grinned like the wicked little minx she was.
Her eyes sparkled with unspoken mischief, and her grip on my arm tightened, a signal that she was not done with me yet.
She was devious, and the heat crawling up my neck already gave me away.
"You're not running," she whispered under her breath just as I tried to move away.
"I'm not running," I muttered back. "I'm surviving."
But then…
"Valerie," a familiar voice called behind me.
Shit.
I stiffened again.
Xade had walked up closer to us.
I turned slowly—too slowly—and there he was, looking way too smug for someone who supposedly had no idea what I was going through.