Chapter 32 Dead Weight

"I just don't like how they think they can get away with everything. Besides, you're our captain now. You should be caught up on stuff like this," Alexis pointed out blandly, her expression still as icy as ever. But Noelle preferred Alexis' forthcoming demeanor to Hazel's capricious one. "By the way, are you alright to compete in the championship with those injuries?" Alexis gave a half-hearted shrug. "Don't get me wrong, I don't actually care. I just don't want you to become dead weight for our team." Alexis' concern for Noelle was obvious despite her efforts to come off as casual and flippant. Noelle couldn't understand the younger woman's self-contradicting behavior, but she chuckled quietly nonetheless. "Yes, I can compete just fine, but I'm afraid my assistant will need to help me out a lot more than usual." After all, her fingers had sustained considerable injuries. Alexis quirked her mouth. She pretended not to have seen Noelle's bandaged fingers, but she loaded a tray of