Battle of the Roses [Book 2]

Chapter 38

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"Ren watched us as he leaned casually against the table, holding a pair of scissors. I'd never seen a classroom tool look so dangerous."
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Chapter 38

Dom

I sat in the corner of the courtyard by myself, browsing on my computer, while the Laroche pack relaxed in the center. They'd broken off into groups. Anna, Elsa, Ember, Thea, and Josilyn were sitting next to the fountain talking and eating off a fruit plate. Diana, Gracie, Akira, and Laurel were sitting in the grass playing a board game. Barry, Sebastian, and Oliver were watching videos on Barry's laptop. Dmitri and Jake were watching Riley wrestle with Spencer but the latter was easily overpowering the former simply because he was more calculating in his moves. Then there was Hunter and Noah who watched over the pack from the stairwell leading down to the courtyard. While I could hear a bit of everyone's conversation, Hunter and Noah whispered quietly to each other. It made me wonder what they were discussing as I knew secrets weren't really a thing in the Laroche pack.

"Hey!" Thea snapped. I looked over at the girls. Spencer and Riley had rolled into their fruit plate. Spencer was sitting casually on Riley, grinning at Elsa.

"Sorry babe," Riley groaned.

"You ruined the fruit plate," Thea griped.

"Spencer, really?" Elsa asked.

"What?" He replied.

"Why don't you pick on someone-"

"-My own size?" Spencer finished, standing up. Elsa stood up with him. He was almost a head taller than her. He smiled down at her. "Elsa, I don't think you're quite my size."

"I wasn't going to say pick on someone your own size. I was going to say pick on someone who is at your skill level." Before Spencer could react, Elsa swept his feet out from underneath him. He fell to the ground and she was on top of him in a flash, pinning him to the ground.

"That was uncalled for," he grunted.

"That was called-" Elsa stopped midsentence, glancing down at her pocket. She pulled out her phone and read a text message. She got off of Spencer and said, "Hey, I'll be back. Stark wants to see me."

"What about me?" Anna queried.

"Maybe he wants to talk about her dating his second," Riley remarked. Spencer hit him in the stomach as Elsa answered, "We're not dating."

"Really? Because the lip-lock you two were in earlier would suggest otherwise," he countered.

"Excuse me?" Hunter demanded, getting up from the stairs. Noah trailed behind him.

"He's making it up, Hunter," Elsa said. "Don't raise your haunches."

"I'm not making it up. Why are you two trying to hide it? Oh, wait, Callie. She doesn't like it does she? You two need to wait until she's okay with it, right?" Riley continued.

"Riley, shut up," Spencer said, his earlier playful demeanor completely gone.

"Don't tell my pack mate what to do," Hunter snarled, getting nose-to-nose with Spencer. "I let you be with my sister because she wants to be around you. But I do not give you permission to date her."

Spencer didn't back down. I couldn't decide if that made him very brave or very stupid. "First, I don't need your permission. You're not my alpha, Laroche. The only way you'd be my alpha is if I married Elsa and joined your pack and left my current one. Second, Elsa and I aren't dating."