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.

him. By the way, I’ll take you to school tomorrow morning,

OK?

she asking me whether

looked at

long as

attitude and

Reyna was very embarrassed.

she was

thought, “What kind of

more arrogant, isn’t

tried my best to be nice and talk to her like that. Am I supposed to hold her and coax

She’s older than that!

suddenly having second thoughts about my decision to send

go back

Reyna thought of the

for you

carefully handed Zoe from her arms to Reese and wanted to hold

little excited, moved

doorway, watching Reyna’s hand stretched out

Valerie trembled.

remembered what the orphanage director had done to her after

also remembered Reyna grabbing her hard and pushing

violently.

arms around herself

through the hearts

her might was

clenched fists showed how wary

Reese froze.

His eyelashes quivered.

are those

forward and threw Zoe

and reached out to

arm was covered

were either long

weren’t exactly big,

and the cracks inside were starting to

Reese was furious.

“Someone is bullying

the first thing that

you? Someone in your class? Why did they

a row

fell while running in the playground today. It was those particles on the ground that

was paved with plastic

stopped being angry

her

was very likely that they were scraped by the

shouldn’t be so

minute

knew that he just didn’t want the

daughter of the Horton

got out, Reese

back and rubbed

damp sensation

was not used to

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