Chapter 83

Yolanda hung up the phone and glanced across the street. There was a fruit store right there.

"I've got some plans tonight. I won't be heading back with you," she said to Bryce before heading toward the fruit store across the road.

"See you tomorrow..." Bryce muttered. He felt a bit down as he watched her walk away.

He couldn't quite explain it. Ever since Yolanda came out of the juvenile detention center, she seemed to possess an inexplicable air that irresistibly drew him.

However, he also felt like the distance between them was growing. It was as if the good times when they used to be friends were slipping away beyond his reach.

...

Yolanda bought a fruit basket from the store and then took a taxi to the Regency Hotel. By the time she arrived, dinner had already started.

As she entered the banquet hall, Alice and Joe Henderson were busy making rounds and toasting with guests as if this were their event.

The moment Alice spotted Yolanda walking in, she raised her voice and chastised her loudly, "Yolanda, why are you so late? It's been over half an hour. I thought you weren't coming." "School ended late," Yolanda replied coolly.

Soon, her gaze fell on

brother, Neil Lawson, and his wife, Elena Silva. They

Yolanda to them as they looked at her with thinly

the other guests present were Alice's relatives from her family home. Seeing Yolanda's plain outfit and overweight figure, many

She focused instead on her

up to Neil and Elena, presenting them with the fruit basket. The couple glanced

that, Elena accepted it with a cold expression. She said,

directed Yolanda to a seat

Yolanda sat down, the guests around her subtly moved their chairs away as if sitting

expression. "Yolanda, I heard

"Oh, I almost

she be dropping out?" someone nearby asked

it just because she loves to

exams. If she

en

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