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."

to get along with

younger. It was easy to say that he'd avenged her, but the truth was that they'd targeted her because of

about Blake and continued following him even when bullied. No one else wanted to talk to him, after

Xenia came to their family. Noelle's social standing at school plummeted with her manipulative encouragement, and she was completely

blind to it all in her previous

expression faltered. "I didn't know

was the youngest in the family. Donovan, Frank, and Carl

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

her, and she felt she mattered

talked to Blake. He

"What you're

Let's get the doctor to check before you leave. Could you stay

Frank out cold. Handling one person

bed and noticed he'd lost quite some weight. He

briefly before she released him. As she picked up

the room. She refused to

as she stepped out, she saw a large group of black-suited bodyguards standing outside