No longer a pushover

Chapter 389

Noelle kicked the slippers away and demanded in a cold voice, "Give me the phone."

Frank swallowed his bitterness and tried to change the subject. "Do you want to eat something? Do you feel unwell?"

Noelle felt utterly powerless. She looked up at Frank and asked, "Why can't anyone understand what I'm saying?"

They claimed to want to make it up to her, but they never gave her what she wanted.

"I understand you're mad at Blake, Noelle, but you know how hot-tempered he's always been. Don't hold it against him.

"He'd always gone out of his way to avenge you when you were bullied as a kid. Have you forgotten that?"

Frank gently explained so Noelle wouldn't misunderstand Blake. Noelle resented the Liddells deeply, and he didn't want things to worsen further.

Noelle let out a mocking laugh. "Avenge me?"

"Yes. maybe you were too young to remember."

is that his bad temper and strong ego made it impossible for him to get along with

Blake being the reason she'd been harassed when she was younger. It was easy

she cared about Blake and continued following him even when bullied.

their family. Noelle's social standing at school plummeted

all in her previous life and

expression faltered. "I didn't

youngest in the family. Donovan, Frank, and Carl

and Lucas, but she didn't mind though she knew those Blake had fought would eventually come

for her, and she felt she mattered in

"I've talked to

mockery. "What you're

to check before you leave. Could you stay

her hand and knocked Frank out

noticed he'd lost quite some weight. He felt so light almost like he

before she released him. As she picked up

and left the room. She

she saw a large group of black-suited bodyguards