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CHAPTER 235
~Lucy's POV~
I staggered back. "You… you didn't see that."
Her gaze flickered to the board with my darts all over it. "But I did," she said smoothly and wickedly. "No need to fret. You're just as deranged as I am."
Her smile widened into a feral, predatory, maniacal one.
"W-who are you?" I breathed.
She stepped into the light, her silver earrings catching the sun.
"I'm Avery," she said, lips twisting. "And I want Valerie taken down too."
I did not bother with what she said but processed everything that had happened and how I went wrong.
Avery caught the dart mid-air with two fingers—calm, precise, almost bored—and my blood froze.
I hadn't heard her come in. I hadn't even sensed her. It was like she'd materialised from the shadows themselves, dark and elegant and completely out of place in the dust-stained classroom.
Her eyes were sharp and calculating, but the smirk playing at her lips made my stomach twist.