Love or Die CEO’s Daily Dose of Swoon

for yourself, haven’t you?”

Chapter 176

Chapter 176

Daniel froze for a second before understanding. “Latham, so that’s why you whisked her off to the nurses office! Just to make sure she was all clear, so she wouldn’t come back to bite me in the butt later? Man. you’re slick–way more cautious than me!”

Latham chuckled, giving Daniel a playful kick in the shin. “Kid, I want a 500–word essay on my desk to make it right. Can’t be giving people ammo to use against you, get it?”

Daniel nodded, a sheepish grin on his face. “Sure thing! But, Latham, can we maybe make it 200 words?”

Get lost!” Latham cursed.

Daniel’s laughter trailed him out the door.

As he reached the entrance, he spotted Leila, and his smile briefly turned into a grimace. But he quickly shook it off and strutted back to his classroom with a scoff.

Leila stood frozen at the office door, her expression shifting rapidly before she headed towards her classroom.

Classes One and Two were adjacent. As she passed by Class One, she saw through the window that a crowd had gathered around Merry’s desk. They were laughing and chatting, the previous aloofness nowhere in sight.

Glancing down at her own solitary shadow, Leila clenched her fists tightly.

her family’s car and taken home, only to find that aside from

Mom and Dad?”

gone to deliver some things to

climbed the stairs, she overheard

through. She used to butt heads with her parents, but since that incident, they’ve grown

troubling

Delaney household.

He was administering psychotherapy to Merry in the study while Cain, Paulina, and Lorna waited in the living

that while Merry’s trauma was

exposure to water would help

coughed awkwardly, “I don’t think Merry knows how to swim.”

interjected. “Then she’ll learn.”

equipped with a pool and instructors, would be the perfect place

would have been comforted by her presence, but now, thoughts of Merry’s detachment and her ordeal only filled them with irritation. The couple

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feeling neglected, clenched her

school the following day, she discovered her desk had been moved to the back of the classroom. Her classmates bluntly explained they didn’t want to be near her,

ways.

she bent down to gather them, her frustration mounting,