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 of another, out

in her mind. Right, there was Mr.

to become the woman by his

took more than looks to catch Mr. Christensen’s eye. She needed substance

to step up her game with

eyes narrowed with

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

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inside when someone practicing French caught

master, juggling ten languages with ease, while rubbing elbows with world–class

was jarring to her ears, stirring

1. it.

noticed Anthea, he greeted her, “Hey, Anthea, how are

in acknowledgment.

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

be

I

you know? If you want, I can teach you. I’m the top of my class,” he added, a glimmer of

The underachievers hung out together, and the

class representative, Baldie was the dream of many girls in class. Offering to teach Anthea, he expected her to be over the moon.