Chapter 144

Alisha:

“Screw him,” I cursed while I tried on another damned dress. I didn’t like the idea that I was being forced to go to dinner with Derek, simply because I had been too enraged to not take him on in a spar.

Despite the compliments on my ‘truly dangerous’ fighting skills, my pride still bruised a bit.

I stared at my reflection and couldn’t help but scowl.

Pink definitely wasn’t my color. There was a time I felt like being delicate was a virtue, and I always sought to do no harm wherever I found myself. But I had grown hard from the trials and tribulations that life had to offer me.

I sighed, pushing the straps of the pink dress down my shoulders and it fell to the ground, the dress pooling around my feet. Stepping out of it I began once more to rummage through the wardrobe for anything that wasn’t too… ‘not me’, to wear.

I didn’t know why but the thought of wearing something unattractive and dowdy made me mad and frustrated. Even if I was just having dinner with Derek, whose opini