No longer a pushover

Noelle and Cedric Chapter 35

Chapter 35

Despite how petite she was, Noelle's eyes were brimming with rebellious determination. She firmly answered, "My answer won't change even if I say it a hundred times. I refuse."

Xenia seized this opportunity to sweetly say, "Don't be angry, Donovan. I already have a tutor, and my grades will improve soon. Noelle's grades improved because of how hard she'd been revising. I'll learn from her, I promise!" Frank, trying to remediate, chimed in, "Don't worry about their grades, Donovan. I'll handle it.

However, Donovan was still furious. "Stop making excuses for her! Do you think that I don't know what she's like? She's acting out just because she isn't happy that Xenia joined our family!"

He snapped at Noelle, saying, "Let me make this clear, Noelle. No matter how much you're against it, Xenia isn't going anywhere, even if you leave the house. She's here to stay, you hear me?

Noelle's head was lowered, her expression hidden. Frank felt sorry for her. "Noelle, Donovan doesn't mean it that way."

Coolly, she

Donovan's furious voice rang out behind him. "Stop! That kid has you

exasperated. "It's not like that,

changed. If this had been the past, he might have also thought that she was just

earlier worried him. He'd never seen

don't fight. I blame myself for not doing so well this time. If

everything, so you should stop defending Noelle. Just because she's our biological sister doesn't mean that we'll favor her

which made Xenia fear him the most. But thanks to Noelle's

brother had misunderstood Noelle, "Donovan, Noelle took part in the competition too. The team wouldn't have won if

team just so that he would beg her. However,

feeling a wave of helplessness wash over him. For the first time, he realized that he had treated Noelle

away as he finally understood what a terrible brother he'd been. Perhaps he was the one