Chapter 79: An Amiable Friend
[Margaret’s Perspective]
I didn’t want to talk to Angel anymore. She looked like she was just here to taunt me. I wanted to walk around her and leave, but she took a step in the same direction and stood in front of me.
“What else do you want?” I asked with some anger.
“I just wanted to remind you,” Angel said, lowering her voice. “Don’t forget our agreement. I’ve already made arrangements. Tonight. At the forest entrance at eleven.”
I looked at her steadily.
Angel had already taken a step back. She was still looking at me with her charming smile. She said, “If you go back on your word, it’s not too late. But you don’t have to get any registration form. Just stay in the house. Donald will protect you. Come on, give me back my things.”
Angel reached out to me. I was silent for a moment. Then I reached into my pocket.
I saw the contemptuous smile on Angel’s face deepen. Suddenly, I reached out and knocked her hand away. “I won’t go back on my word,” she said. “I’ll see you tonight.”
I caught the momentary look of shock on Angel’s face. I finally felt like I had won a small game against Angel.
“Good.” Angel finally dropped the smile she’d been wearing and revealed her true self, fierce and arrogant.
“I’ll let you know what happens when you take something that doesn’t belong to you.”
Angel turned to leave. Her last words sounded strange to me.
What was it that didn’t belong to me? It looked like she was talking about Donald, but it was strange to use the word “thing” to describe Donald. Although it matched Angel’s usual arrogant personality, it still felt a little strange. In this case, wouldn’t it be more appropriate to use “person”? Or maybe she wasn’t talking about Donald, but something else.
I was still thinking when I felt a blow on one shoulder.
I instinctively returned fire, but a strong arm grabbed me.
I turned back to see a surprised Elizabeth and an embarrassed Anthony. Elizabeth’s hand was still in mid-air. Anthony was holding my arm in one hand and a stack of registration forms in the other.
It was obvious what had just happened.
Elizabeth came to pat my shoulder. When I returned fire, Anthony instinctively shielded Elizabeth.
I glared at Anthony, who sheepishly let go of my hand.
Their relationship with Armstrong was really puzzling.
Anthony was always so protective of Elizabeth, but judging from Armstrong’s attitude today, he was obviously still treating Elizabeth as Luna.
“Who were you chatting with?” Elizabeth asked.
“Angel. You met her in the forest yesterday,” I explained.
I saw Elizabeth tremble again when she heard about the forest. I began to wonder what she had experienced with Armstrong in the forest yesterday. She was still afraid of the forest.
“So it’s her. She doesn’t look as scary as she did yesterday. She’s quite friendly,” Elizabeth muttered.
I did a giant mental eye roll.
Friendly? Elizabeth’s habit of judging a book by its cover hasn’t changed at all. Someone like her who wants to become our Pack’s Luna is really our Pack’s headache.
“If you’re leaving with the Lycan King, maybe you can be friends? She came to talk to me just now. She’s quite friendly.”
I looked at Elizabeth speechlessly and gave up on communicating with her.
I looked at Anthony and held out my hand to him. “Give me a registration form.”
But Anthony shook his head at me and said, “You don’t need to patrol.”
“What?” I couldn’t believe I was hearing that from Anthony, too.
“The Alpha explained that neither you nor Elizabeth needed to patrol,” Anthony said.
Armstrong treated me like this too? I glanced at Elizabeth. It was normal for Armstrong not to let Elizabeth patrol. She couldn’t do anything. It was more appropriate for her to stay at home. However, Armstrong should know that I was capable of doing this.
“Stop fooling around. Give it to me. I can do this,” I insisted.
“No, that’s an order.”
I glared at Anthony. He met my eyes innocently.
I was really defeated. These men! Damn them.
“Fine, I won’t go,” I said miserably.
Elizabeth looked at Anthony and then at me. She said to me in confusion, “Why are you going on patrol? Isn’t it good that Alpha doesn’t want you to go? Don’t forget that you have to help me hold the Luna’s inauguration.”
Ah! I had almost forgotten about that. Who could care about that ritual at such an urgent moment?
But Elizabeth was still talking about herself. “Maybe you and the Lycan King should hold one too. I mean, yours is different from mine and Armstrong’s. You must have to go back with him to hold the formal ceremony, but you met here after all, and this is very important to you. We can do it together, and then the Lycan King can attend my ceremony. What do you think?”
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