Flora’s Guide to a Second Chance at Love and Life

Chapter 1412

Class 5.

It was study period, and with no teacher around, the students were all bunched up, chatting animatedly.

"Hey, did you hear? Fiona didn't show up at school yesterday because she got kidnapped!"

"Really? I just saw her at the entrance earlier, and she looked totally chill, not like someone who had just been kidnapped, right?"

"She's probably just putting on a brave face!"

A girl let out a cynical laugh, "The guys who took her were all men. I don't need to spell out what they might've done, do I? Who knows, maybe she's already been..."

She trailed off, but everyone got the gist. They weren't kids; they knew what she was implying.

The mood shifted, becoming awkwardly tense.

Fiona had been missing for a day, and everyone assumed her reputation was shot.

"If I were her, I'd be hiding at home, too embarrassed to show my face. But she's got the nerve to strut around school," the girl continued, then turned to Louise: "Louise, doesn't your family work with the police? Do you know what really happened?" Louise was scribbling in her notebook, her long hair cascading over her shoulders, giving her an impossibly gentle look.

Hearing them, she just smiled softly.

"I know a bit, but... Fiona's a victim in all this."

words only confirmed their suspicions-Fiona's reputation was

the

head, a slight, involuntary smile

rescued, Louise

out unscathed and worried her own role might be

warn Rosa at the station, but couldn't get

stayed quiet overnight, likely because Rosa chose not to

had kept her distance; it was all Rosa's doing, nothing could lead back to

this, Fiona's

folks in Class

steer clear, afraid the

something." Col

belongs

your cousin Nash to

finish, there was a deafening "bang" as the door

jumped and spun towards

was leaning casually against the doorframe, arms crossed, looking defiant as she

she'd used

It was Fiona!

have you lost

been caught bad-mouthing her. But this was Class 5,

the audacity to kick the door open, making a

buzzed