The assistant was stunned for a moment and glanced at his watch: “Now? But it’s almost twelve o’clock, and your place is half an hour from here. How about tomorrow?”

Kieran’s voice dropped, “Right now.”

The assistant heard the decisiveness in Kieran’s voice and responded just as decisively, “Okay, I’ll arrange for someone to pick you up now.”

“Kier!”

As soon as the words were spoken, a sweet and gentle voice came from the other end, sounding a bit anxious.

He was really familiar with this voice.

During that time, whenever Roschelle was free, Kieran would take her to the company.

Since Roschelle came back, almost everyone at Kierose Group knew this future boss lady.

He often hung around Kieran and had heard this voice so many times, there’s no way he wouldn’t recognize it.

It was Roschelle.

The assistant shut up at the right time and left some space for Kieran and Roschelle.

Kieran’s voice got a bit distant, but you could still hear the gentleness in his tone.

“What happened?”

Roschelle’s voice suddenly came from far away, then there was a rustling sound, probably because Roschelle hugged Kieran.

Her tone was playful: “Kier, I want to go to the movies now, will you go with me?”

Kieran hadn’t said anything yet, and Roschelle went on, “We have to go now. In a few days I’ll be busy with work and won’t have time. There’s still a movie showing at the theater right now. Everyone says it’s really good, and I want to see it too.”

“Come on, Kier, didn’t you say you’d do whatever I wanted?”

“Or do you have something to do right now? What could be more important than me?”

Even if it wasn’t Kieran himself, the assistant still felt the pressure, pressed their lips together, and quietly waited for Kieran’s answer.

Actually, he pretty much knew what Kieran would say.

A lot of people knew that Roschelle’s stuff came first for Kieran.

Sure enough, half a minute later, Kieran said, “Okay.”

Roschelle cheered, “Yay, Kier, I knew you were the best to me.”

The assistant immediately followed up: “I’ll have Glenn come pick you up now.”

“No need,” Kieran said, “I’ll drive myself.”

The assistant immediately said, “Okay, what about Ms. Huston?”

Kieran said, “That’s it.”

This time, Kieran hung up the phone a lot faster.

After hanging up the phone, the assistant also let out a big sigh of relief.

He looked sympathetically at the window of Alaricka’s rental: “Sorry, Ms. Huston, this was Mr. Argent’s idea.”

The next day, when Alaricka got out of bed, her whole body shook with pain, like her muscles were pulling and tearing at each other.

Even just getting up hurt so much she was grimacing.

She put up with the pain and walked to the bathroom to wash up, then quickly changed her medicine.

When she finally sat down at the table for breakfast, she saw the clock already pointed to forty-five minutes, which meant there were only fifteen minutes left before class.

She had no choice, so she skipped breakfast and grabbed her bag to leave.

She was walking on the road, and her whole body hurt so much that her face turned pale.

It was only a seven or eight minute walk, but she took fifteen minutes and almost ended up being late.

It was just that when she turned her head, she saw a familiar car following her.

She frowned, didn’t care about the pain, and walked faster.

As soon as she walked into the classroom, she saw the lively Clarissa sitting in her seat, bossing her little brothers and sisters around, telling them to do this and that.

She ignored it and walked by, but Clarissa still snapped at her a few times.

“Well, well, isn’t this Alaricka, the one who bravely exposed plagiarism?”

Her face looked mocking, and she put extra emphasis on the word “plagiarism” in her tone.

Clarissa chuckled, “Alarieka, I knew you were in a hurry to slap my Rose in the face, so you rushed to expose the plagiarism at the school celebration.”

“But you probably didn’t expect this, ‘Aspiration’s original author Lindsey was actually Rose. I was planning to slap someone in the face, but in the end, I still got slapped by myself, Rose."

The moment the words were out, the whole class burst into laughter and jeers.

“Ms. Whitaker was kind and generous, well-educated, and a really great person. We all liked her a lot, but someone just had to get jealous and stir things up. In the end, not only did she fail at what she wanted to do, but everyone also found out she was petty and weird.”