NO INTEREST.

SELENE’S POV:

Her face alone pissed me off, and though I tried to contain myself and keep my pleasantness on my face, Ryker’s reprimands as the girl had left made me furious.

I remembered what happened only minutes before I left the dining hall fuming.

After my comment on the girl’s disrespect, I didn’t expect Ryker to lash out in the way he did.

‘Be quiet. You have no right to treat Keileigh that way, much less act like you’re better than her. She has a higher rank than you, Selene. Don’t forget that,’ Ryker had said. I was dumbfounded then. Ryker, of all people, who was so slow to anger had become that new girl’s greatest defender. His warnings had bite to it, for unlike Arnold’s anger that could be easily soothed, his was like a hurricane that swallowed everything in its path when he lost it. And very rarely did he do so.

Arnold came to my defense, rising up from his seat, and pointing his fork in his twin brother’s direction.

‘You’re too hung up on this girl already, huh,’ he rema