From Sneers to Cheers: Anthea’s Ascent

Chapter 62

After Daniel retreated to his room, he hopped onto his GlobalGigaNet account, eager to check his messages. Scrolling through, he was shocked that Sherman had boldly asked Phoenix to connect on the chat app.

But Phoenix had turned him down.

Daniel’s jaw dropped in shock and a look of utter disbelief painted across his face.

Man, this Phoenix was something else!

Mad respect!

His curiosity about Phoenix was growing by the second!

The Morris family was still as death, the moonlight barely penetrating the heavy curtains of the bedroom. A solitary figure lay in bed, engulfed by the shadows.

“No, please, no!” The figure jolted awake from a nightmare, fumbling to switch on the bedside lamp, her face pale as a sheet, forehead slick with cold sweat.

Rebecca had been haunted by that dream again.

Even upon waking, she couldn’t shake off the pain and despair from her past life’s final moments and that face.

Just the thought of it filled her with an unbearable dread.

In this life, she was determined to break the cycle.

Clutching the covers tightly, her hands trembling, Rebecca fired up her computer and typed in a name. The screen threw back a 404 error, showing no information found.

taste of powerlessness gnawed at her. Her fate was in the hands

then, a figure flickered in her mind. Right,

this lifetime, she’d ensure to become the woman by his side, at the very top of

looks to catch Mr. Christensen’s eye. She needed substance and

to step up her game with Daniel.

narrowed with

punching the clock at the local rotisserie, counting the days until her month–long shift substitution was up.

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French caught

juggling ten languages with ease, while rubbing elbows with

to her ears, stirring an almost irresistible

1. it.

greeted her, “Hey,

smiled in acknowledgment.

Baldie said. “You into it?” Mid–sentence, it dawned

possibly be interested in French?

I

I’m the top of my class,” he added, a glimmer of pride in

of students was an unspoken rule. The underachievers hung out together, and the high–flyers stuck to

in class. Offering to teach Anthea,