Claimed And Marked By Her Stepbrother Mates novel Chapter 363

Chapter 363: 363-Lesson Of The Day

Helanie:

I felt so uncomfortable when I saw Lucy coming over to join us with Sydney and Salem. She even had her arm wrapped around Sydney’s as if they were best friends.

"This is crazy," Lamar muttered before they reached us.

"And now we know who the real toxic one is," Penn grumbled, shaking his head with a sly grin on his lips.

"Hey everyone, I hope you don’t mind me bringing my friends too," Lucy giggled as she reached us. Sydney scanned the crowd for me, and when her eyes landed on me, she smirked and winked.

I slammed my hands on the table and stood up. "I have some assignments pending. I’m heading back to my room."

I wasn’t going to stick around and deal with Sydney’s remarks, which she instantly started making the minute she heard me say I wanted to leave.

"Come on, Helanie, don’t be a baby. I came here in peace." Sydney rolled her eyes, while Salem looked down after getting a glare from Gavin.

"I don’t want to sit at the same table as you," I snapped at Sydney, who rolled her eyes again.

It was as if she wasn’t even trying to make anyone believe she had changed.

"Really? But you’re sharing a table with Lamar, Gavin, and—Jenny. Oh! So just because you decide you want to make amends, that’s when people are allowed to sit next to you?" Sydney clicked her tongue, trying to call me out on my hypocrisy—when there was none.

"All these people know they’ve messed up, and they’re trying to be better," I shot back at her, noticing Lamar and Jenny had stood up to back me up.

"And you—" I hadn’t even finished speaking when Jenny cut in.

"Lucy had a choice, but you were brought here without Helanie’s permission. And as for Lamar—he’s been with her through thick and thin, so don’t compare yourself to him." Her confidence was on a whole different level as she defended us this time.

"Hush, snake!" Sydney held her hand up to stop Jenny.

The whole time, my eyes were on Lucy, who kept her head down with an annoyed look on her face, as if we were the ones in the wrong.

"You two thought you’d come here to make Helanie uncomfortable? Well, guess what, we won’t be sitting here either." Gavin slammed his hands on the table as he spoke to Salem and Sydney.

"I didn’t do anything—" Salem said softly but went quiet when Gavin shot her an angry glare.

"Then we’ll sit and eat with Penn," Sydney said as she sat down, but that’s when Penn stood up.