Chapter 20 Who Bullied You?

Valerie caught the last bus back to the Horton’s home.

The sky became darker.

Jayvion was already waiting at the door.

This time, he was really anxious.

Today was utterly different from usual. Valerie was over an hour late!

“Why isn’t Ms. Valerie back yet?”

Jayvion muttered.

Just as he was about to enter the room to tell Reese and Reyna about this, Valerie’s figure slowly appeared in the distance.

“Ms. Valerie? Ms. Valerie!”

Jayvion came forward with a happy smile and quickly took the bag in Valerie’s hands.

“Ms. Valerie, why are you so late today? Did your teacher keep you back?”

“No, Jayvion. My classmates wanted to ‘chat with me‘, so I missed the last usual bus and came back late.”

Jayvion breathed a sigh of relief.

Ms. Valerie, you must be starving. Come in, and I’ll get you dinner.”

The door was open, and Reyna was smiling brightly as she walked out of the dining room with Zoe in her arms.

Instantly, Valerie smelt the rich aroma of food.

The sound of the door opening attracted both Reyna and Reese’s attention.

“Valerie, how come your class ends so late?”

Reyna thought, “It’s almost 7:00 p.m.

Something was missing at dinner, but I just couldn’t remember.

Now that I see Valerie, I realize why

All of a sudden, her language skills began to deteriorate again.

“Well, Valerie… Your sister had to eat at 5:30 p.m., so we ate. Are you hungry? I’ll ask Jayvion to fix you something.”

“It’s fine. You don’t have to wait up. I think I’ll almost always be back late.”

Valerie’s tone was cold and polite, but it was a little strange to those close to her.

Reese was aside, and he pulled a long face.

“You shouldn’t be talking to your mom like this.”

“Shut up!”

Reyna immediately turned to glare at him.

Reyna then smiled and said to Valerie.

I’ll take you to school tomorrow morning,

OK?

“Is she asking

head and looked at Reyna, who was taller

As long as you’re

excited attitude and expression that

Reyna was very embarrassed.

was upset and

“What kind of attitude is

more

to her

She’s older than that!

having second thoughts about my decision to send her to

I can’t go back on

thought

surprise for you today,

arms to Reese and wanted to hold

a little

in the doorway, watching Reyna’s hand stretched out toward her

Valerie trembled.

the orphanage director had done to her after she was kicked out in

grabbing her hard and pushing her hand just before

violently.

around

a shiver through

defense with all her

showed how wary she

Reese froze.

His eyelashes quivered.

are those

went forward and threw

slowly and reached out to grab Valerie’s

was covered in

either long

exactly big,

dead wood, and the cracks inside were starting to

Reese was furious.

thought, “Someone is bullying the

was the first thing that came to

to you? Who bullied you? Someone

in a row

today. It was

playground was paved

being angry and

her arms were

was very likely that they were scraped

be

a minute earlier

want the Horton family to have

the Horton family was bullied

got out, Reese

hand back and rubbed the place where Reese gripped

sensation gave her

was not

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