Loving Mom 374

Chapter 374

Several groups before Sharon and Matty had done poorly. Some had forgotten their lines completely and ended up freezing on stage, eventually having to abandon the performance altogether.

But even then, the lowest anyone had ever received was 60 points-a baseline encouragement score.

A zero? That had never happened.

The room instantly erupted. People murmured, heads craned, conversations overlapping.

“What’s going on? Why zero?”

“Did they mess up something serious? Anyone here speak Spanish?”

“That can’t be it. Even if they slipped up, they finished the whole thing. It should be at least an eighty.”

“Honestly, I thought Matty’s group did better than Theo’s.”

“I speak Spanish. There were no mistakes. Not a single one.”

His nerves frayed, panic creeping in. He wondered if maybe…

palm gently brushed his back

Matty’s breathing

given the zero was a man in his

voice cold and cutting. “Miss McKinzie, I suspect you

“Cheating?!”

crowd like electricity. Even the other judges stared at him,

integrity. If the kids grew up learning shortcuts

gaze to his

There was no anger or panic. Her voice, when it came,

stay this calm after being

you never even graduated from high school. With that kind of education, you expect

glanced at him. “Heard?

hang there, sharp and deliberate. “And since when does a junior high diploma disqualify someone from learning Spanish? Are you discriminating, Mr. Finch? Should I start listing a few world-renowned figures

Gregory’s face stiffened.

realized, belatedly, that he’d overplayed his hand. His words had been too absolute, too

only supposed to give her a hard time-enough to embarrass her, not enough to cause a scene like this.

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