Chapter 15: Waver.

Yumi's POV

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“What book is that?” Henry asks, staring at the back of the book Zainab is reading across from him on the island. “Oh, this?”

Zainab grins, turning the book around, “It’s a romance novel, ‘Paper Hearts’”.

Zana rolls her eyes with a lazy groan, “That’s the twelfth time she’s reading it”. Henry chuckles humorously, “Stench fanatic”.

I look between the three, busy filling my mouth with buttered popcorn. Henry would occasionally give me smoldering glances that often shake my body whole and the way his eyes would drag along the stretch of my lips…I couldn’t help the unstable heartbeat.

“So, uh…” I try to speak but a munched-up popcorn drops from my mouth. Oh my word! How embarrassing.

“You were saying?~” I hear his sultry voice blowing against the shell of my ear and my body shivers greatly.

I start to fidget, looking over to the girls for help but they grin maliciously at me. Deserting me to my cold fate.

“Alpha Henry, we just recalled there’s something Mom wanted us t