Chapter 483 - What are Friends? (3)

Opening my eyes, I noticed none of them knew I was awake. Inside the infirmary, I found Lucius with Alex and Luke together, immersed in catching them up on the whole story. Making sure to not make a sound, I listened to their conversation, wondering what was happening.

"It's not only the Nicole family?" Lucius seemed shocked.

"The heir to the Blanc family had almost hit her to death before letting her get kidnapped!" Alex held a large grudge against Henry.

"I'll never leave Rika alone again," Luke clenched his fists from recalling the incident.

"You did a good job increasing her tolerance to the poison and drugs," Lucius ruffled Luke's hair.

"It's all that she drank and ate," he sadly smiled.

"It's soda and sugar!" I yelled at them.

"Rika, stay on the bed," Luke warned me when he saw me about to step out of my bed.

"We need you to tell us all the things you've been doing while you were with Helena," he believed Ellen to be the one who sold information about me.

"We spent time at the café. You already know about that," I couldn't reveal the club room.

"You need to go more into the details," Luke grabbed my shoulders.

"I just complained about you not letting me go outside of school. How all my holidays were spent at your mansions," I recalled from months ago.

"That can't be all," he sat down on the edge of my bed.

"It really is everything," I couldn't continue to look at his face.

"You're hiding something again," Luke studied my face.

"What do you want me to say?" I wondered how I would manage to escape from this situation.

"What about your fight together?" He brought up the subject I wanted to avoid.

"I won some of the fights!" I didn't delve into the details.

"What were you fighting about?" He poked on one of my weaknesses.

"We were fighting over what were the best desserts in the café," I knew it was a poor cover story.

"Tell us the truth Rika," Alex joined in to pressure me.

"It really is the truth," I quickly avoided his eyes.

"We have enough time to stay here for the entire day until you tell us," Lucius began to threaten me.

"Stay then," I tried to shake off Luke's grip on my shoulders to lay down on the bed.

It was better to sleep through this since it was likely I would make a blunder. Pulling on the blankets, I started to fight over them with Luke. Was this really how they were treating a patient? I was stunned in how their cruelty has evolved. This was exactly why I never wanted to leave the criminal organization.

"I need some rest!" I pointed out I was still hooked to all the machines.

"Rika, this is extremely important," Luke managed to take away the blanket.

"And don't you dare pull the machines out of you," he predicted my next actions.

"Is it so bad to fight over desserts?" I had some tears well in my eyes.

"There's no way you were fighting over mere desserts," Alex's eyes narrowed.

"I'm going to call Michelle," he knew she was always around me.

"Call her then!" I desperately hoped she wouldn't pick up the call.

Unfortunately, Shelly picked up the call, not knowing what was going on. The video screen only showed Alex in the call. She was a bit tense in her bedroom inside her family mansion, her smile faltering a bit. I knew they didn't have the best relationship with each other, agreeing that Alex was too picky with everything in how they lived together in their dorms. Placing all my hopes into her, I hoped she would be able to come up with a better cover story than I did.

"What do you want?" Shelly seemed a little bit annoyed.

"I want to know the reason behind the fights you used to have," Alex went directly to the topic.

"We agreed to keep our matters private from each other," she had a strong shield.

"I have no obligation to answer you," she ended the call.

I brightly smiled, applauding Shelly for managing to hide the club. But I didn't expect Luke to call Cillian next. Recalling the pages inside the contract he signed, if Luke asked a question regarding my safety, he had no choice but to answer. I wondered why everyone were picking up the calls today with Cillian's face being shown on the screen.

"This is regarding Rika's safety. I have to know the reason behind the fights you used to have," Luke used the contract to his advantage.

"We were fighting over taking turns," Cillian kept things extremely vague.

"Turns?" Luke dug for more details.

"Turns on using our points to order more food!" I forgot about how I didn't need to use my points to purchase food anymore.

"Please continue," Luke ignored me.

"Turns on using a room," Cillian knew he would also be a goner if he revealed everything.

"What room? What's that room's purpose? Tell me everything you did every time you used that room," Luke was starting to get annoyed.

"The clubroom. We used that room to do our club activities together. We played some games, raised money for our club and wrote a book," Cillian managed to maintain his direct eye contact with Luke.

Alex scarily turned to me, coldly looking down on me. I shuddered as my lies were getting exposed. Maybe I really should have taken that exchange with Lucius when I had the chance. Since Cillian had the obligation to answer all of Luke's questions, we were both going to die together soon.

"What's the club's name? What games did you play? How did you raise money for your club? What kind of book did you write and what was its content?" Luke covered everything this time.