Chapter 254

That single three-pointer was all it took for Shermaine to completely win over every girl who’d come to watch the basketball game.

Jason watched Shermaine, his hands clenching into fists. ‘She really is my natural enemy,’ he thought.

The guys from class just stood there stunned. “Damn, you’re insane at basketball too.”

“I’m alright,” Shermaine shrugged. But actually, she wasn’t just "alright." She was nailing three-pointers left and right. Her skills were off the charts.

Once Shermaine showed what she could do, her teammates immediately wanted to switch up positions. Before she knew it, she was playing forward.

When they faced off, Jason said, “Shermaine, I’m not going easy on you.”

Shermaine smirked. “Do I need you to go easy on me?”

Jason had nothing to say to that.

And honestly, Shermaine really didn’t need him to. Playing forward, she was absolutely unstoppable. It didn’t matter who was guarding her. Once the ball was in her hands, nobody could take it away.

For the first time, Jason felt the full force of how intimidating Shermaine could be. It was crushing.

The game came to the final shot, which would decide everything. Shermaine stole the ball right out of his hands and sank another three-pointer, ending today’s friendly game.

Jason was sweating buckets. The tall, good-looking guy looked pretty beat up.

Meanwhile, Shermaine finished the game and grabbed a water bottle from one of her classmates. She twisted off the cap and tilted her head back to drink.

“Shermaine, you’re so freaking cool!” one student exclaimed. Shermaine, the chemistry department’s legend, really was in a league of her own.

Shermaine just smiled and didn’t say anything.

All the girls watching from the sidelines were totally blown away by her performance. Without even trying, Shermaine had already won over a bunch of academic fans, and now she was collecting a whole army of female admirers too.

The shippers were starting to worry though. Shermaine was getting way too popular at school. ‘Will Joshua feel threatened by this?’

That night, Joshua got his hands on a video of Shermaine playing basketball. After watching it, he really wanted to see her, but Shermaine had already crashed after a full day of the orientation. She’d put her phone away hours ago.

No matter how much Joshua missed her, he couldn’t reach her, so he just kept watching that video over and over again.

News of this whole thing eventually made its way to Natalie and Jameson’s ears.

Natalie was pissed beyond belief. ‘It’s bad enough that Shermaine got the top exam scores, but now she’s beating my son Jason at sports too?’ she thought. ‘Shermaine was basically a freak of nature, like some kind of monster. What woman could be that insanely good at everything?’

Jameson felt like he was living in some weird dream. ‘Jason couldn’t even beat Shermaine at basketball?’ he thought. He had to see this for himself, so he watched the video.

After watching it, his face fell. ‘Could Shermaine please stop being so damn brilliant at everything?’ he thought. Having her as some tech genius was already hard enough to deal with, and now she was crushing Jason too. ‘Just how many hidden talents does she have?’

In that video, the second Shermaine stepped onto the court, it was like the whole place belonged to her. She owned that court like a queen, and everyone cheering for her were her loyal subjects.

For once, Jameson didn’t spend the night at Natalie’s place. He actually went back to the Jean residence instead.

Janice seemed surprised to see him, but her expression stayed cold as ice. “I thought that little home-wrecker had you so wrapped around her finger that you’d completely forgotten this family existed.”

Jameson felt pretty awkward about that, but he noticed Ruth wasn’t at the dinner table. “Where is she?”

“She went on a trip.”

Jameson just said “Oh” and didn’t ask anything else.

Meanwhile, in Thymion, Ruth had rented out this super fancy beachfront villa. But she wasn’t vacationing alone. She had some young guy with her who was pretty good-looking, and they were all over each other.

Ruth sipped her wine and figured this kind of life beat the hell out of babysitting the Jean family and dealing with Jameson’s crap.

Since Jameson had his head completely turned by that little vixen anyway, she’d decided to go for it when this young stud, Jasper Bell, started throwing signals her way.

Jasper was hot and knew exactly what to say. These past few days had been like living in paradise for her.

“Ruth, I really want to spend the rest of my life with you,” Jasper whispered in her ear, trying to work his magic.

“Didn’t I tell you to stop saying that?” Ruth wasn’t born yesterday. Her expression immediately turned cold.