Chapter 76

“Wait.”

For some reason, the conversation irritated Jasper. Sternly, he asked, “Ms. White, don’t you owe Liana an apology?”

Landon sighed helplessly, resisting the urge to stuff his socks into Jasper’s mouth.

A dull pain throbbed in Alyssa’s heart. She turned around to cast him a blank stare.

Her disappointed gaze pierced Jasper’s soul.

“She didn’t do it! Alice didn’t do it!”

Just at that moment, a sweet, gentle voice cut through the air. It arrived unannounced, like lightning on a clear day, foiling the plot that had been carefully planted.

When Alyssa turned her gaze toward the source of the voice, there was a glimmer in her eyes.

“Lauren!”

clad in a simple white dress was hurrying toward them. She was sporting a

dense curls,

enemy in their family. Betty

looked for new ways

she would try to make her sister look bad. She

would

introverted and timid. In the presence of strangers, her shoulders were always hunched, and she was always

for the three years that Alyssa was part of the Becketts, Lauren was the only one, aside from Mrs. Rosie,

always worried about Lauren. To her

it

glared fiercely at her sister. “No one was in the bathroom except Liana and her. If it wasn’t her, then

her!” Lauren

jumble.

is none of your business. Go play somewhere else!” Sophia

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clenched her tiny fists and walked up to Jasper. She

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