Fana didn’t want to leave, but she left reluctantly.
For the next one hour, Mia charted out all the details with River. The picture became slightly clear but there were still too many gaps. Other than the fact that Natalie accused Hunter to the older man, there was no evidence that he was the one who stalked her or was seeing her River wondered that even Hunter must be knowing about it all but he was keeping it low. He wasn’t even talking about it to her.
Faria hovered in the background as the two talked about it. She was listening very attentively to what they said. She would sometimes come and peek over the paper they had written on.
“I am tired,” River said finally. She saw that Mia was feeling much better now that she had spoken it all out. It was as if a burden had come off her shoulders.
Mia stretched her hands over her head. “I am also very tired. I would love to sleep!”
River chuckled. She was happy to see that Mia was relaxed. “You better go to school tomorrow. Let it all slide, okay?”
Mia hugged River. “Thanks for coming over, River. You can’t imagine the tension I was going through.
Though the mystery over the stalker hasn’t been cleared, I am feeling better”
River patted her back. “I am glad.”
That evening Mia was busy because she called her friends and finished up the homework, took notes and generally chatted with them. She was in her room all the time. River came to talk to her friends for a while and then she went back to her room. It was pretty late in the night. At 11:30PM River went off to sleep after having dinner. Mia’s friends were still in her room when she went to sleep.
In the morning when she woke up, she checked her phone hoping to see Hunter’s call or texts. There were several. She smiled as she sent him back all the love and kiss emojis. She missed him a lot. Once he returned, she planned to go and see her pack and meet her Beta, Lena. It was long due.
Mia got up in the morning and stretched her limbs with a big yawn. She was eager to go back to the school with new energy. Her gaze landed on her table and she was surprised to see that the paper that she had written with River wasn’t on it. She had kept it back in the drawer of the table when her friends came over, but she had put it back on the table after they had left and was reading it all over again. She had started searching for clues on Natalie’s Facebook page and even called some of their common friends.
Mia jumped out of her bed and searched for the paper in case it had slid down the table, but it was nowhere. Did River take it? She scratched her head and was going to River’s room to enquire about it, but her eyes went to the clock. “***!” she rasped. Only half an hour was left to go to the school. River hurried dressing up and she reached school in a record twenty-five minutes. She rushed to her locker and opened it to take her books out when an A4 size paper slid out of it and landed on her feet, imitated, she picked it up and her eyes went wide when she read it “Leave your investigation, ***!”
Dread blasted in her chest and her heart beat like a wild horse. She stared at the warning on paper for a long time. The bell rang, pulling her out of her thoughts She crushed the paper and ran to her class. Who could have stashed the paper in her locker? Who had the access to it? As she walked to the class, her body trembled with fear. She whipped her head everywhere to find who had done it, but not a single person was in the corridor. She dug her phone out and called Faria, but Faria didn’t pick it up. She thought of calling River, but remembered that she would be in her interior designing class.
Mia reached her class a few minutes later. She went to sit at her place as her friends glared at her for coming late. She couldn’t focus on anything. When the teacher asked her a question, she gave her a blank face. Other students laughed at her for being so careless. Some said that she needn’t be so attentive because she was a royal. Mia didn’t pay attention to any of them, her mind at the crushed paper which was lying in her skirt’s pocket.
When the class got over, she called Faria again. But her phone went unanswered. An hour later, her phone was switched off. Panic surged through her By the time it was lunch, instead of going to the cafeteria, she went to the roof of the school and called River. As soon as River picked up her phone, she said, “Where is Faria, River? Her phone is switched off!”
“Why?” River said, sounding busy Thaven’t seen her since morning”
Mia fell silent River hadn’t seen her since morning? That was very unusual. Faria always went to attend River the first thing in the morning Mia’s hand went inside her pocket where she had stashed the crushed threat. Her palms were sweaty and she didn’t feel like attending the rest of the classes
“Mia?” Trish’s voice came from behind Mia turned sharply and saw that she was with Miami. “What are you doing here?”
Cold winds blew her hair all around. 1-“Mia said, tucking her hair behind her ear 1 am just standing here.” She didn’t want to say anything to them about the note she received this morning because she suspected that one of them must have a connection with the man who threatened her with the note
“You will catch a cold!” Miami chided her. She took her hand and tugged her. “Come on! Let’s go to the cafeteria and eat something.”
1 don’t want to eat anything “Mia drawled 1 don’t feel like “
Trish came to her and wrapped her arm around her shoulders. “Mia, I understand that you are very upset about the whole thing, but let Gamma Asher do his work. I am sure he will uncover something.”
She squeezed her shoulder lightly “Come, let’s eat something. We got worned when we didn’t see you.”
Mia let out a rough exhale. Her friends were very sweet and considerate, yet she didn’t know if she could trust them.
When they entered the cafeteria, people stopped conversing. They glanced at her every now and then and would speak in low volumes Mia ***it “***them!” Trish said, understanding Mia’s awkwardness.
“You come and have your lunch with us. Just go and sit over there.” She pointed in the corner where there was a long table with six chairs. “We will get your tray.”
As Mia sat down at the table at the corner of the room. She contemplated what she was going to do now. She couldn’t tell anyone about the threat. Nick and Jack came over. “Hey Mia!” the boys said in unison. “Hope you are prepared for the quiz for the next class,” Nick said as he sat at the table opposite to her with his tray of food.
“Not really she replied
The girls came over Trish gave Mia the tray and said, “Goddess, I ***the baked beans with sausage!”
Miami laughed “1 ***it too. Almost everyone in my family dislikes it!” She dug her fork in the beans.
“You would be surprised that our family friends also dislike it. Yesterday when I went home, ***was having dinner with two of her friends, Mrs. Jenna and Mrs. Denver, and even they disliked it!” She burst out laughing.
Mrs. Jenna?” Mia said in a low voice
“Yes,” Miami said “Why?”
Mia gave her a look filled with anger. Mrs Jenna is Rosalie’s mother!”
Miami became quiet and so did everyone else at the table. She licked her lips and shrugged. “So what, Mia? My mother has many friends and Mrs. Jenna is one of them. It’s not like we are discussing you or the Alpha”
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