Former Queen (2)

"Around a few months," Luke knew how unforgiving his cousin was.

My hopes came crumbling down, slipping into my backup plan of avoiding and hiding from him forever. I knew I wouldn't be able to silently suffer under Alex for a few months when I struggled with a few days. Maybe this was why Luke was giving me the night to enjoy my last moments of freedom. I wondered if I could teleport out of the mansion, finding enough mana in my body to do the spell.

"If you attempt to teleport, I will join him," he warned me.

"What do I do during the rest of the night?" I decided to escape once we were separated.

"Sleep," Luke gestured.

"Will you be with me?" I wanted him to return to his own bedroom.

"Do you want me to stay?" He was planning to leave.

It was weird that Luke was leaving me alone. Meaning he had some alarms or trackers in place. If he was with me, I could use him as a shield next morning. It was a hard choice in determining what to do. I started to scan the room, wondering where he could have hidden everything. But none of them could be seen and he seemed to be confident that my teleportation would fail.

It was better to have him as a shield and quickly eat breakfast before I ran into Alex. I knew he wouldn't do anything if I obediently drank and ate everything that he passed to me. He was good at covering me from Henry in the past, showing it was the most reliable plan. I pulled out my most pitiful eyes while nodding, "I don't want to sleep alone,"

Luke sighed as he waited for me to enter the bed. I slipped into the blankets as he began to lay down. Since he could think of leaving later on, I tightly hugged him once he entered the blankets. It was better to be closer to him in case Alex discovers us together. While drafting more plans inside my head, I closed my eyes.

"Where are you going?" I could sense him moving while the sky was dark.

"I need to start our morning routine," he was telling me it was the usual time he woke.

I needed my shield to stay near me, strengthening my grasp around him, "a few more hours. We're not attending classes in the morning anyways."

"I can give you more hours to sleep alone," he wanted to leave the bed.

"I don't want to sleep alone," I started to whine.

I wasn't willing to let go of him when someone knocked on the door. It had to be Alex, who was awake around the same time as him. This was the perfect time to pull him closer to me so I could hide under him. My heartbeat paced faster as Alex began to open the door from no answer, showing the lack of privacy I possessed.

Although it took a lot of effort, I managed to get Luke in the position I wanted. When Alex walked inside the room, he stared at us, seeing Luke go along with my whims. He seemed to know that Luke had no choice. I was tightly grabbing him to the point he would have to pull me off him. What else did Alex expect? I wasn't going to let go of my only lifeline.

"Rika, you have to let go of me now," Luke knew I was using him as a shield.

"I don't want to," I was going to drag my plan to its end.

I was delighted to see that my plan was working, Alex not able to do anything. He couldn't get mad at me, knowing Luke would get faced by some of it. When Luke started to get out of the bed, he began to struggle from the extra weight on top of him. I could continue this for the entire day, not separating from him. He would have a taste of his own medicine, earning a little bit of my revenge along the way.

"Can you pass me a hairbrush?" Luke gave up.

Alex passed Luke everything he could potentially need. It seemed he was more familiar with our morning routine than I thought he would be. It took Luke double the time to brush my hair from the odd angle he used. While the accessories didn't take much time, the clothes took triple the amount of time since he had to figure out a way for me to change before he decided to use a spell. This wasn't a bad beginning, clinging onto his back while he carefully stepped down the stairs.

Charles briefly froze when he came into the dining room, finding that we were using the same chair while we ate. Desperate people did desperate things, including eating every plate that Luke passed to me with no sugar. I ended up chugging five bottles of supplements, making both Luke and Alex surprised. There was a method in drinking them while avoiding the nauseous feeling. Everything had to be done at a certain pace with no breaks in between.

We also used the same chair in the study room, the four of us gathered in one place. Videos of the lesson were sent by the teachers while they investigated my stalker. Luke decided to make me catch up on school while Charles listened to the lesson alone. He didn't think I would desperately try to keep my concentration up while flawlessly answering every one of his questions due to it.

"So this is what a desperate person becomes," Charles muttered.