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.

fell

Lawson, and his wife, Elena Silva. They were also

Alice had probably bad-mouthed Yolanda to them as

home.

unfriendly stares around her. She focused instead on her purpose

Neil and Elena, presenting them with the fruit basket. The couple glanced at the modest gift with faint

that, Elena accepted it with a cold

a seat near the door of the private

their chairs away as if sitting with her

and approached Yolanda with a smug expression. "Yolanda, I heard you've started

"Oh, I almost forgot. You won't need to adjust for long. Soon enough, you'll be

be dropping out?" someone

to brag,"

exams. If she didn't, she said she would drop out and give her spot to our

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