Seven Years of Marriage with Jake

Chapter 69

Love Story 6-Chapter 1

The school hunk, Patrick Carroll, was now dating the school belle, Yaritza Hurley.

Patrick was the top-ranked academic genius who always held the number one spot, while Yaritza was the stunning beauty who could rival Helen of Troy.

When their official relationship announcement hit, it sent the entire school into an uproar.

While the whole class buzzed with excitement, I just sat quietly in my seat, immersed in study.

Curious classmates soon gathered around me, asking, "Averie, come on, be honest! When did your brother start dating Yaritza?!"

Patrick was my brother, at least in name.

When I was six years old, my parents' company went bankrupt, forcing them to take the desperate route of jumping to their deaths.

Patrick's father, Dustin Carroll, who had been my father's business partner for many years, took me in. Since then, I have been living with their family as their daughter, Averie Carroll, in name only. "I don't know."

I responded coldly, my face indifferent.

asked me whether Patrick was dating a girl,

quickly contacted Yaritza's family, and sent Yaritza abroad, putting an abrupt

held a grudge against me. On that same day, he sent some thugs to hit me and even conspired to make me miss the most important exam for

vividly, sitting there covered in blood as I looked at him. He sneered

what you should

scene from my previous life, I felt my breath grow

to go to university and couldn't speak, so I had to make a living washing dishes, relying

getting into Harvard University. Riding the wave of the internet boom, he

comment left his wife blushing with embarrassment. Now that given a second chance, I was determined to seize it tightly. I would

would go to

I would live

or you'll know what to

break between classes, Patrick leaned over from the desk in front of me and

school, but while he had earned his place through his own abilities, I had only made it

back, "She doesn't as smart as Patrick. Must be because they're not actually

undefeated number

since our rebirth, he had not been the same studious person he was in our past

now, his exam papers were left blank, he could not be bothered to take notes,