Reborn for Revenge: Find her Fated Alpha-Chapter 32: Friends?

Amelia looked at the man before her and pressed her lips into a thin line.

According to her memories, Ryan was the most reasonable one among them. He was a person with a high intellect who loved spending time reading about research and unfolding himself in new innovations.

How could a person as intellectual as him act so unreasonable?

"What do you want from me?" Amelia asked when she had no choice. The third lecture had ended, and the man showed no interest in leaving her alone.

Ryan just smiled before shaking his head.

"I want to be your friend," Ryan said.

Amelia, who was packing her belongings, stopped for a second.

"A friend?" she whispered, barely audible.

Want to be her friend? A friend? The word felt heavy on her tongue, as if she was forced to say a foreign word with a different accent. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Did she ever have a friend? Amelia racked her brains to see if anyone was close to her that she could call a friend.

Can her driver, Marcos, be called a friend? A friend doesn’t need to be age-specific, right?

And what about that leopard she used to feed near her research lab? That leopard was her friend, too, wasn’t he? But someone that was of her age and in her class...

She remembered trying to make friends when she was little. However, when anyone talked to her, weird rumors about her spread out of nowhere, and people started distancing themselves from her.

That was probably the reason why Alpha Killian never looked at her or gave her the respect that someone would give to a human being, let alone someone who saved his mother.

"I don’t need a friend," Amelia said before she stood from her place.

Ryan’s smile faltered a bit. This was the first time he asked someone to be his friend.

Usually, people would go around and try to become their friends because they were the alphas of the Ashborn pack.

However, who would’ve thought that his first attempt at befriending someone would fail like that?

Seeing Amelia walking out of the class, probably heading towards the canteen to have her lunch, Ryan called Aaron and Derrick.

"What is it?" Derrick asked, annoyed that his session with the hot chick was interrupted.

He stopped the girl from moving her hands down his abdomen, his glare putting her in place.

"What do you mean? It’s lunchtime. Don’t tell me you are already shocking your tongue in someone’s throat. At least feel pity for your future mate. Do you seriously want to give her some STDs?" Ryan asked, annoyed, before ending the call.

He called Aaron next.

At the same time, Amelia, who walked inside the Canteen to eat her lunch, sat at the corner table to avoid any attention.

She didn’t want to come here. She would’ve preferred to be inside the forest to eat, but after everything, the area was forbidden for the time being until a thorough check of all the trespassing areas was done.

She heard Dominic Bentley took responsibility for himself under the jurisdiction of the royal guards.

Amelia opened the bento box, her heart warming at the food.

She took out her cutlery, ready to dive in, when she saw Alpha Killian and Hannah sitting in the middle of the canteen.

Amelia paused. She wanted to look away but couldn’t help but feel a pang of hurt in her chest when she saw their table filling with so many people as they laughed and chatted about nothing in particular.

Ryan’s words about being a friend echoed in her head, hitting where it hurt the most.

She observed how Killian helped Hannah with the food.

A flashback of memory appeared in her mind.

During an experiment in the laboratory, she had ended up mixing too highly reactive chemicals with the herbs that immediately reacted, and the explosion had burnt her hand, throwing her away, or her body would’ve burnt terribly.

In the meantime, she couldn’t even do basic things, and when Killian had sat with Hannah and her, she remembered looking at Killian expectantly.

However, the guy was busy peeling oranges for Hannah.

She remembered being left alone on the table to fend for herself because Killian took Hannah to the infirmary.

At that time, she thought Hannah was saving her from humiliation before everyone else, and since she loved her sister, she didn’t mind it.

But not looking back in time, a scoff left her mouth.

She was about to bite her food when she heard the screeching sounds of chairs being pulled.

Amelia couldn’t help but raise her brows when she saw five plates being placed on her table.

"I can see a lot of space here. Let’s use it," Ryan said boldly before he sat beside Amelia.

"What are you—" Amelia started but was cut off by Derrick.

"What? Now, you won’t allow us to use the university’s property?" Derrick asked.

Amelia looked around helplessly and noticed that other tables were indeed occupied by one or two people. She couldn’t help but sigh.

She knew the four guys on the table. Aaron, Derrick, Ryan, and Alpha Zane, who had helped her in the morning. But the woman...

"Hi, I am Luna Jennifer, Alpha Zane’s mate," Jennifer extended her hand, and Amelia smiled before shaking her hand.

"It’s nice to meet you, Luna," Amelia said with a genuine smile.

"She didn’t say that to us," Aaron grumbled.

"Hmm?" Jennifer asked.

"She hates us," Aaron said, and Amelia practically glared at him as if he was ruining her image before a Luna.

"Look at her sharp gaze," Aaron pointed at her face, and Amelia quickly schooled her expression before raising her hand and shaking it to indicate whatever he was saying wasn’t true.

Aaron’s voice caught people’s attention, and they looked at their table with complex emotions.

"Oh, I didn’t see Amelia sitting here. I should call her over," Hannah stood.

Killian wanted to stop her, but he also wanted to see how Amelia would react. Was she really changing that much?

"I will do it. You sit and eat. Don’t bother yourself with such trivial things," Hannah’s friend, Alexia, said.

Alexia walked to Amelia’s table with an arrogant expression.

She nodded in respect to the alphas before looking at Amelia.

"Hannah is calling you over. Don’t make her upset. Why didn’t you join us? You know Hannah cares about you a lot. Stop upsetting her," Alexia said.

Amelia raised her face and looked at Alexia before nodding.

"I will come after eating," she said, not wanting any drama before everyone.

Alexia scoffed.

"Do you think you are some kind of queen that you will come after eating? Didn’t you hear? Hannah is waiting for you. She is your elder sister. Come," Alexia said, holding Amelia’s hand, ready to pull her out of the table and take her forcefully, just like they always did.