A Shadow at My Back

Valerie’s POV

I felt a bit of dread welling up within me at being caught by Mallory, but that was likely from the last hopeful sliver inside of me that still wanted to make Mallory my friend. The rest of me had recognized that Mallory hated me and that would never change.

Even at her age, if she hated me enough to try to poison me, there wasn’t much coming back from that. Her anger for me was beyo