Coolest Girl in Town

Chapter 414 A Distraction

Elise took a deep breath and answered impatiently, “Ah, that reminds me. I think I rescued him, didn’t I? I don’t seem to recall you doing anything helpful. You have no right to tell me what to do, Faye.”

“Now that’s just unfair, Elise. I was the one keeping the family together before you came back.” Faye justified her actions. “Besides, I’ve been the one taking care of dad over the last few days. You can’t say I did nothing just because you woke him up.”

“Shut up, both of you!” Austin cut them off angrily. “I would have stayed in that coma if I had known the ruckus I was going to wake up to!” Then, he stormed off.

Faye looked Elise in the eye for a moment before going after Austin.

Jeanie stared at the door and clicked her tongue. “That vixen! Your father has fallen for her tricks!”

“Forget it, mom.” Trevor calmed his mother down and tried his best to look up at Elise. “Elise, dad’s got a point. I can’t drag you into this mess. You should just stay out of it.”

“Are you trying to tell me what to do like that man as well?” Elise snapped.

him ‘that man.’ He’s

so straightforward, but sometimes, she was too much of a maverick, as if she didn’t need anyone around. She looked like she didn’t care what anyone thought of her, but he knew she was a softie at heart, though that was only reserved for people who were close to her. Everyone else would remember her as the haughty woman. Maybe that’s how she protects herself. After all, she’s been by herself ever since she was a kid. The mere thought that she was homeless when she was a child broke Trevor’s heart, and he didn’t want her to take on the risk for

got messed up by

loss, and she had paid a hefty price for it. Ever since

all I’ve got. There’s like a dozen of them against me. I can’t take them all alone.”

I miss those days. I was so energetic and youthful. Sometimes I can even save a damsel in distress and make

head and told Jeanie, “Get

to the ends of the world, so she got

…

looking through the file of Leeroy Field and his family. She thought there must be a mastermind

the kids were still young. Harald took after his father and became a delinquent, but his sister did not. She studied hard and worked part time to pay for

head and brushed the guess aside. Trevor’s

are you reading?” Alexander came