Chapter 56

The girl hesitated a bit: “What’s wrong with your voice?”

Alarieka coughed a few times: “It’s fine, go ahead.”

The girl’s voice got lower: “Do you remember me? That time outside school, my mom’s electric scooter hit Mr. Argent’s Rolls-Royce, and you told Mr. Argent not to blame my mom.”

“Remember, what’s up?”

The girl said, “I only told you because of this. You should come to school right now. Ms. Wright was about to get fired by the principal because she made you the host without permission, and all that stuff happened. The principal was really mad and said someone had to be held responsible.”

Alarieka’s pupils shrank.

In the principal’s office.

Alarieka lowered her voice and asked, “Why did you fire Ms. Wright? I did this, it had nothing to do with Ms. Wright!”

The principal looked impatient: “You still have the energy to stand up for her here. You’d better think about yourself. The process to expel you is already underway. After a while, you won’t need to come to school anymore.”

About persuading someone to quit, Alarieka didn’t feel any pressure at all. She could do this, and she could handle the consequences.

But she didn’t want Reyna to get dragged into this. Reyna was a good person and shouldn’t just get fired for no reason.

Most of the teachers in this school were officially employed. It was really hard to get in—hundreds or even thousands of people fought for one spot. Reyna got in the same way. Reyna even took the exam three times before finally making it.

She did it all by herself and took the blame alone. Reyna was just dragged into it for no reason and really shouldn’t have been punished.

Alarieka’s eyes were red and she clenched her fists: “Principal, if I went to clear things up, could you not fire Ms. Wright?”

The principal sneered, “What does this have to do with you now? Ms. Whitaker already cleared things up online, you’re useless now, just get lost.”

“I really didn’t know where you got the guts to mess with Ms. Whitaker. Ms. Whitaker had Mr. Argent behind her. Mr. Argent took care of everything for her. What did you have?”

Alarieka wanted to say something else, but Reyna rushed in, grabbed her wrist, and pulled her out.

In the corner of the classroom building, Alarieka kept her head down and couldn’t even look Reyna in the eye.

“Sorry, Ms. Wright, it was my fault you got in trouble. I’ll go beg the principal not to fire you.”

“These were all things I did. Whatever the principal wanted me to do, I would cooperate.”

Reyna was silent for a while and sighed, “It’s no use asking the principal. Don’t go. If I’m fired, then so be it. I’ll find another job.”

Alarieka looked up with red eyes, “But you spent three years to get this job. I don’t want it to be like this.”

As she spoke, she turned to run: “I’ll go beg the principal right now.”

Reyna looked away helplessly and suddenly grabbed Alarieka’s wrist: “Don’t go. The one who wanted to fire me wasn’t the principal, it was someone else. Asking the principal won’t help.”

Alarieka’s whole body trembled, and she turned her head to look at her, eyes slightly wide.

“So… it was Kieran?”

Reyna kept her mouth shut and as Alarieka's eyes got even redder, and her lips were trembling a bit, “Was it really him?”

Alarieka looked like she was struck by lightning, and her face turned pale in an instant.

She had thought Kieran disliked her, but she didn’t expect him to dislike her this much.

She thought Kieran would only go after her, but she didn’t expect that he hated her so much he even went after the people who helped her.

Alarieka’s steps stopped.

If it really was Kieran pulling the strings, then there was pretty much no room to turn things around.

Especially since this thing also involved Roschelle, and Kieran was super protective of his wife.

Kieran was clear about everything about Roschelle.

Just like before, even if Nina was his biological daughter, Kieran never let Nina call him dad.

Seven days after Nina died, Kieran didn’t even notice that Nina had been gone for seven days.

If something happened to Roschelle and his son…

No, Kieran would never let anything happen to his and Roschelle’s son.

Reyna let go of the hand holding her, gave a slight smile, and said, “It’s okay, Alarieka, I’m fine, you don’t have to worry, it’s just a job…”

“I went to beg him.”

Alarieka’s voice was weak but firm.

Reyna’s eyes looked dull, like she couldn’t bear it: “Don’t do anything stupid. Go find the principal first and ask him not to expel you. Your exams were just a few months away. Think about yourself first.”