54. Shut up, Elena.

Elena.

I had spent the entire day trying to get the image of naked Mr. Deangelo out of my head but it had been very difficult to do, especially his-

Ugh!

I facepalmed myself, and I was even thinking of slapping myself hard to hopefully get the sexy man off my head, but Sofia’s voice stopped me. I had not even seen approach me, heck! She never approaches me, she does not even talk to me unless it had something to do with instructions or even scolding me.

So seeing her even speaking to me right then with a smile on her face while attempting to take a seat right beside me was nothing short of shocking.

“Hy, Elena. How are you doing today?” She asked and it all grossed me out, I felt like it made no sense. Since when did she care about how I was? The same person who never bothered to be kind to me or even ask how I was doing when what had happened to me happened.

“Uh, fine?” I managed to reply while trying to think of what could be reason for the sudden and probably temporary change in attitude towards me. It was the same thing she seemed to always do whenever Madam Beatrice was around so I was kind of used to seeing her do this, but not to me.

“Oh, don’t act like that, we are not enemies, are we?” She said as she laughed unnecessarily loud, when I did not give a response to what she had said, she continued, “I just wanted to know why you would do what you do to the alpha this morning and just leave like that without an iota of fear or respect.”

“Uh... I uh... I was pressed and I had to use the restroom, I did not also know that it spilled on him at all, not until Camila told me about it afterwards. I also plan on apologizing to the alpha as soon as he is back.” I replied her, now convinced that she was of course just acting nice to me because of what she wanted to find out from me.

Busybody.

”But why don’t I believe that reason of yours. It seems to me that something must have happened between you two because even before giving him the coffee, you were off as soon as he walked into the kitchen and kept smiling about something while you could not even look him straight in the eye. The whole exchange between you two was very off and weird.” She pestered.

I was surprised that somebody had noticed all that had happened between the alpha and I but I knew that I had to stand my ground because of this pokenoser, “you must have seen wrong, Ms. Sofia. I was not in any way exchanging looks or whatever you are saying, that does not even seem like anything the alpha would be involved in, it makes no sense, come on.” I replied, trying to dismiss it by hinting that she was being stupid.

Her countenance changed to that of anger “I know what I saw, Elena and I would like to warn you to stop whatever it is that you are trying to start because you would not-” She started to use a threatening tone and Camila cut her off.

“Not what? She would not what, Sofia? Is there any reason for what could have happened this morning? For god’s sake, why are you acting like spilling coffee by mistake is such a very big deal or something that has never been done in the world before and deserves to be recorded in the Guinness books of records? Why do I fee like you already have a reason you are just trying so hard to feed? uh?” Camila snapped, glaring at her as usual.

Those two never got along, ever.

Camila once told me that she sees through her every facade and she knows what she is up to, even though she did not tell me what that is, I did not as either. But she did tell me that I should stop acting like she was above me because she was not in any way that and if I let her think that she could push me then she would do it.

“Stop acting like everything has to end in an argument or a fight, Camila. Elena and I was having a very civil and beautiful conversation before you showed up and of course I am not trying to feed any reason, I just wanted to know and try to help her before these mistakes gets her kicked onto the streets where she was picked from.” Sofia said and then she walked away hurriedly.

Camila and I looked at one another and busted into laughter, we spent the day talking and gisting until it was time to go and pick the kids up. And after that had been settled and Sofia was tutoring them, I went back to talking with Camila only for the alpha to ask of me and tell me to come into his study. I looked at Camila who seemed to think that I was being called upon for the mistake I had made this morning and she mouths, “just tell him that you are sorry, it’ll be fine.” to me as I walked away from her.

I walked into his study, making sure to stay very faraway from him as possible and before he could say a thing, I went first, “I am so sorry about all I have done again, sir. I am sorry for drinking, for all I said while I was drunk, for walking into your room-”

“It is okay.” I heard him say faintly but I was in too deep to stop so I continued my blabbing.

“I am sorry sleeping on your bed and for coming into your bathroom while you t- uh.... did what you were doing. I am so sorry for spilling the coffee on you and leaving so abruptly without as much as an apology, I_”

“Shut up, Elena!” He finally snapped loudly and it startled me because I had not expected him to raise his voice so high at me.

I shrank into the chair that I was on as memories came flooding. From how I would apologize to father for falling and staining my new clothes, to apologizing to Salvatore for daring to look at another man besides him and them shouting at me to shut it up, because they just did not care to listen to my apologies, all they cared about was the consequences of my actions and the punishments they wanted to bestow on me.

I did not know that I was shaking so hard until the alpha started to shake me so vigorously, trying to get me back to the present but all that filled my head was Salvatore’s horrific laughter and his “Shut up, Elena.”